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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      Every time I take an international trip and reinforce my physical sense of the world as a single, connected physical planet (views out the window of vast oceans, continental shores etc) I am reminded of the utter bullshittiness of anti-globalism... (1/few)

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      Sure, it takes a certain amount of money/privilege to access this sense. Even the cheapest flight that gives you a view of say the Pacific ocean or the physical non-fragmentedness of the Middle East is several hundred $. That does not make the "globe" in globalism a lie (2/few)

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      Just because it's privileged people who are able to see and construct the world as a single, connected place does not mean that construct is false. Just because it's underprivileged people who have a narrower sense of place doesn't mean that narrower sense _isn't_ false (3/few)

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      Just because "globalism" has become a synonym for a particular flavor of aristocratic elitist power emanating out of Davos doesn't mean Planet Earth is actually 200 little balls instead of one big ball. All globalisms have a powerful phenomenological foundation (4/few)

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      Whenever I'm tempted to forget this and take dumbass nationalist boundaries and reified egregores too seriously, I consider animals and their ways of being on the planet. Like Arctic Terns that migrate 70,000 km roundtrips from pole to pole WITHOUT EVER GOING TO DAVOS (5/few)

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      Or cats, which have colonized earth as well as humans. Or erupting volcanoes that affect weather 1000s of km away. Or New World vegetables that are now part of cuisines worldwide. Earth is a far more deeply connected place than our *political* experience of it suggests (6/few)

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      tldr: Don't let shitty people with limited perspectives tell you that wanting to experience the planet as a single place is an evil thing or that their maps are the territory. (end/few)

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    8. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 9 Aug 2018
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      How can one reconcile globalism with the basic human urge to territorialize? It seems like statehood is a compromise and somewhat of an attempt to minimize territorial violence.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Aug 2018
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      I don’t think there’s a basic human urge to territorialize. The reverse in fact. We’re more nomadic than sessile.

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    10. Dan listens to the last days of the first days‏ @danlistensto 9 Aug 2018
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      are domesticated agriculturalist city-building humans the same as the ancestral nomadic hunter-gatherer humans? has it been long enough (in terms of selection pressure) that we're now something different than what we came from?

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      I don’t think so. Against the Grain by James Scott specifically argues that sedenterization by agriculture in near east happened against very stiff resistance. 10k years since Neolithic is mere instant in evolutionary time.

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        2. Dan listens to the last days of the first days‏ @danlistensto 9 Aug 2018
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          too little time for much accumulation of gradual changes. not all evolution is gradual though. hell, not all evolution is genetic, for that matter. do humans with sufficiently different cultural histories count as different varieties?

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        3. Dan listens to the last days of the first days‏ @danlistensto 9 Aug 2018
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          not talking about speciation here, but rather, a kind of extended path dependency. how many generations of living like this does it take for territoriality to become ingrained as if innate?

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