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Globalization will never be dead.

Globalization, more than anything else, means a set of rules that apply to all countries (trade, human rights, or otherwise).

Globalization is a philosophical consequence of belief in the rule of law and human rights.

Here is the most thought provoking piece of literature I've ever read on American philosophy (giving it the benefit of the doubt or at least painting it in the best light): https://www.amacad.org/publication/what-does-it-mean-be-amer...

In short, societies fall on a spectrum of one end being built on a set of values (are you an American because you love guns and freedom?) and the other being based on an ethnicity (are you American because your parents are American/you have a shared history with other Americans).

This is the key divide between conservatives (ethnicity based) and liberals (value based).

So we see the great philosophical fights of our time:

  isolationist/nationalist vs globalist
  ethnicity vs civility
  might makes right vs rule of law
  loyalty to people vs loyalty to ideas
They are all share a root idea in where authority comes from. Does authority flow from people and the power structures they craft or does authority flow from philosophical reasoning.

Anti globalization pragmatically follows the idea that authority flows from those with power. Globalization idealistically follows the idea that there are rules that must supersede power itself.



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