BROOKS IS SWEPT OFF HIS FEET BY "GLOBALIZATION" IN "OUR TIMES...!"
THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT HE COULD ALSO BE TALKING ABOUT GLOBALIZATION'S EFFECTS DURING THE 1720'S BUBBLES TOO...
BECAUSE, GENTLE READER, YOU SEE, THE NOTION THAT "GLOBALIZATION" IS SOMEHOW NEW...OR DIFFERENT...IS PURE BULLSHIT!
GLOBALIZATION HAS BEEN AROUND FOR CENTURIES...
ROME WAS GLOBAL... THE BRITISH EMPIRE WAS GLOBAL... THE ENTIRE CONQUEST OF AMERICA WAS ABOUT GLOBALIZATION AND WHO WINS AND WHO LOSES...
I'VE CONCLUDED THAT PEOPLE LIKE BROOKS...JUST DON'T KNOW THEIR HISTORY VERY WELL...
NOW...WHAT HAS CHANGED IS "SPEED OF COMMUNICATION"...BUT COMMUNICATION ADVANCES HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH GLOBALIZATION OR IT'S CONSQUENCES... (JUST ASK MONTEZUMA..!)
WHICH CONSEQUENCES, BY THE WAY, WERE THE SAME IN 1720 AS THEY ARE IN 2008...!
WHAT WAS OUR "BOSTON TEA PARTY" ABOUT IF NOT GLOBALISM vs. PROTECTIONISM...? YOU SEE...?
WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT LITTLE CHESTNUT, GENTLE READER,...YOU'LL HAVE THIS WHOLE BALL OF WAX FIGURED OUT...
GET SOME GOOD BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT...PROBABLY OLDER BOOKS ....NOT THE CURRENT BULLSHIT NOW IN PRINT...BY THE LIKES OF BROOKS, HIS SOULMATES...OR THE OTHER AHISTORICAL ASSHOLES...LIKE TOM FRIEDMAN, ETAL...
