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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why should anti-globalists get a vote on global issues? Why should I get a vote on women’s health? Why can’t we have segmentation of voting weight relative to the felt impact of the decision?
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This sort of thing is why I believe in weird ideas like global voting rights for everybody in proportion to how much they might be impacted by any local decisions. There is no local really.
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I mean, as consultants we do this sort of segmentation on every engagement. It’s possible, the methods are known. The incentives aren’t there for politicians to exploit it (until someone does, then they’ll all want to)
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