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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Almost any organism you could name will have a stress response if removed from its habitus. Humans are no different. This is not to argue against globalism (whatever it may mean precisely) - learning and growth also provoke a stress response. (I think this may have been my...
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... takeaway from The Complacent Class.) I'd note, though, that one can have a sense of unity with others and want all boats to rise and still favor nations with arbitrary boundaries, just because the nation state is, say, the most efficient global governance system known.
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If someone's main epistemological mode is based on metis, then they might find it hard to adapt to living somewhere else. e.g. if your fishing profession is enabled by a long, local narrative around breeding cycles upriver, this is not easy to adapt to other locations.
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