I'm a globalist. Lay it on me.

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Relatively.
Depends on your income, education, etc.
I never tried. My spouse got it quickly because his company wanted to send him on a business trip.
I could probably obtain it with relative ease via my university connections - an international conference looks good as a reason for applying for a visa.
But it takes several weeks and it's pain in the ass of bureaucracy.

I think the problem is that you're imagining a world where the standard of living for the bottom six billion people takes a big swing up to the level of an American in 2000 and everything else stays the same. This isn't realistic.

Firstly, Americans don't live like Americans any more. American lives are becoming both much more resource efficient, but also cleaner. Americans are using energy more efficiently, but when they do use energy it's more likely to be renewable or nuclear.

This isn't an isolated trend in America - in fact, it's more drastic in Western Europe.

I don't think we'll ever see most of Africa "living like Americans" - instead, they'll leap straight past the dirtiest phase in human history and go straight to getting their energy from solar photovoltaics.

During the past thirty years or so western liberal democracies have entered some kind of stage one would call it the Great Stagnation a/o the Great Deviation .. Great defined both as a high HDI and as .. Big. It was much slower, gradual and less of a failure than the Depression or the Recession.. many not palpably wrong or insipid decisions were made along the course, at the hands of a Few. A globalized world would might have entered such a phase as well, it seems it has more to do with the nature of itself, with a superstition of the constitution sort..

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As of today our globalists did somewhat a poor job drafting a framework that connects civilizations altogether.. at all. Their only interests seem to lie in something such as dismantling ideological opponents, and congratulating themselves on successfully embracing tokens which are a handful. It was as non-constructive and bizarre as it sounded.. in fact paired up with financial crisis and neoliberal wars.. no thorough thinking made cynical voters nowadays..

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the future looks so-so ..

The future is bright for some people; grim for others.

nationalisms will eventually fade away in human history.. free market liberalism globalism esp when reaching a oligopoly sounds closer to liberal fascism .. and all fascisms fall.. the mainstream centrism as of today sounds schizophrenic in nature, not helping when it’s ruled by a cohort of narcissist megalomaniacs.. on socialism ,

first of all sewing machine is back,

probably homemade cosmetics..

socialism often fossilized as no one was motivated to work given so little incentive and how unproductive everything was ..

now u have more individualistic choices on alt fashions and homemade cosmetics and gig economies and probably more free time to do nothing (and not capable of doing anything .. )



population is declining worldwide soon so.. same sex pregnancy makes it bounce back a bit ..

source materials still restraining

the proportion of socialism-capitalism synergism is ..

wut ?? idk ..

there could be a global railway system , but the bering strait is a weird place.. still need ferries or planes to iceland and new zealand . could hardly compete with airlines. but hypothetically you can have a 24 or 72 hour visit around the city u bypass.

He blames "globalization" - the economic project that creates massive, not centrally controlled flows of commodities, labour - and pathogens - around the globe.
You won't easily get that genie back in the bottle.


"Globalism" is the political project that could exert some control over the economic project.

But right now, there isn't any and invasive species and pathogens are partially to blame for what is called the sixth extinction.
(The fifth was the comet that killed the dinosaurs. Humans are the comet this time)

What's fascism for you if not total identification with the nation, i.e. total nationalism?
Why do all fascisms fall? Is that a natural law? Is it because of Gravity?

The Soviets also used horrible proxies to measure productivity, like the hours of labour put in or the kilometers trains travelled.
So, to increase "efficiency" of infrastructure, officials made trains go in circles, to increase the thing that was being measured.

Not unlike the British national healthcare system in the 90s, when performance targets were introduced. They measured the number of patients successfully treated - which led hospitals to turn away hard-to-treat patients, and help several easy-to-treat patients instead.

But that's not a feature inherent in socialism - it's bureaucracy, and it was implemented because people didn't think properly about what to measure, what the targets should be etc. - markets are good for sorting this out and create efficiency.
Markets are great at figuring out how to produce.
Markets are horrible for deciding what to produce, though. (Remember: the Dutch invented capitalism and butchered their way through south-east Asia to satisfy their desire for nutmeg!)

What do you find appealing about globalism?

I know this question wasn't directed at me, but I will respond to it anyways. In a word retaliation. Fascism explicitly calls for the nation state to expand (or at least that's what I read in papers written by fascist in my European intellectual history class), but other nations aren't just going to roll over an die. They are going to retaliate. It wasn't that long ago that there were vast technological differences between nations that made fascism a viable, if cruel, ideology for advanced nations. Who cares if the nation your conquering is retaliating if you can just crush them with your superior tech?

But since those days advanced technology has diffused throughout the world, allowing apparently weaker nations to put up stiff resistance to stronger nations. My country America learned this the hard way when it fought North Vietnam and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. My country is wealthy and powerful. Even so cheap but effective weapons like the AK 47 and RPGs have allowed terrorist groups to put up a fight. Even benign technologies like cell phones and car batteries can be applied to warfare (cellphones are effective for communication and recon and a former marine I know explained to me that a care battery can be rigged into an IED.)

Some might ask, "Well what if we tweek Fascism so that expansion is no longer required? We just let nations do their own thing without bothering each other." That's certainly an understandable thought, especially to us with Autism, but hard to implement in this era of globalization. Basically a nation can't do anything without it affecting other nations somehow. If a company outsourcing work to other countries goes bankrupt then it means people in all countries it operates in loose their jobs. If someone on the African coast dumps toxic chemicals in the Atlantic they could end up giving cancer to people in Brazil. So in order to avoid retaliation national governments must constantly consider how their polices affect other countries.



Oi. I would have to write my whole life story to really explain, but for now it's enough to say that I like how Globalism implies that everyone one earth is important.