About Wild Globalization

How does globalization drive civilization?

The 20^th century dawned with the “promise” of world peace and prosperity growing from brilliant new technologies, burgeoning egalitarian states, and the prospect of global political-economic cooperation – it collapsed into chaos, genocide, holocausts, environmental destruction, with 70 million souls lost in the great wars and perhaps another 50 million in the 1918 flu pandemic. Yet the century’s second half, in spite of nuclear and Cold War threats, brought “rising tides” of wealth over poverty, foodstuff abundance, even more amazing technologies, and, in its final decades, it witnessed Eurasia’s re-opening and renewed prospects of “global convergence.” Yet, alas, we find ourselves in a new century wondering if Civilization hasn’t gotten dicey and dangerous, again. We observe new military conflicts, economic disruptions, energy supply panic, pandemics, one million souls a week flooding into urban centers, and many others trapped in modern slavery and human trafficking. We find ourselves disillusioned, living a 21st century angst, on a darker side of this “globalization.” What’s going on?

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