How Many of Us Really Like the Global Take on Contemporary Life??

Question:How do we feel about the global take on contemporary life....about what happens in Iraq or America directly affecting what happens in Britain?

Or do we yearn for a more circumscribed life where what happens at home is our main if not only concern?

And if so, how do we deal with a system where we have all become interconnected? Or is there no alternative?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: How do we feel about the global take on contemporary life....about what happens in Iraq or America directly affecting what happens in Britain?

Or do we yearn for a more circumscribed life where what happens at home is our main if not only concern?

And if so, how do we deal with a system where we have all become interconnected? Or is there no alternative?

There definitely is an alternative, but those whom have benefited from the global trade system wouldn't like it too much.

Localized trade, localized travel & localized work.

The book "The Long Emergency" posits that the United States in particular, (and presumably the larger number of the rest of humanity), fails to adequately prepare for the end of cheap high-grade oil and as a result is reduced (over the next 20-50 years) to a rather dismal state of affairs.

Its quite pessimistic in many respects, but I'll say this, it makes absolutely no presumptions, it does not assume a 'Mr. Fusion' or something comes around the corner and all it really does - to tell it's scary story - is suppose that oil became 4 or 5 times more expensive/less available than it currently is - That's it.

The human brain is designed to work in groups of about 150. This is the reason that men have lived in clans throughout history and prehistory. Maybe we should go back to operating the way we were designed to work?

Globalization is wonderful--it is your right, because no one can force you to be "nationalistic."

But it's only going to get worse before it gets better. A New York website was sued in Australia for breaking Australian laws. The issue was: where is the origination of "publishing"?

If it was put on a server in New York, was it "published" there? or because it showed up on a computer and a printer in Australia, was it "published" there? (I don't know what the outcome was.)

"In a fundamental sense, stillness is the antithesis of life." [1] You can't make the world stand still. At one time, the "globalization" was over the Great Trade Routes. Not only good were exchanged, but so were languages, cultures, foods, and Bubonic Plague.

I think as long as we remain peaceful, i.e., no one initiates force against others for such problems, then where something is "published" is a lot easier to solve than the Plague.

It is a step that we cannot avoid. As we grow into a more variant global economy( I know it is lame) we are forced to think in global terms.
Our isolation ended many years ago,
This we care about what happens to our supplies that come from this part of the world or that part of the world.

Therefore, their problems become ours. in the same token our problems because we are THEIR MARKET, is theirs as well. They care about our problems and want it resolved as fast as possible.

My take on the matter- in a nutshell.
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Your problems are mine, my problems are yours. We live in the same planet. Let us all take care of it and of one another.
QNH
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