IP: More on Globalism, tribalism collide in events

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 21:13:11 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: "Richard J. Solomon" <rsolomon () dsl cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Re: IP: Globalism, tribalism collide in events
>
>
> These CEOs and Prime Ministers should re-read Marshall McLuhan & Harold
> Innis, who pointed out very clearly how the steam-driven printing press in
> the 19th Century led to divisive nationalism, and the hegemonic wars that
> followed in the 20th.
>
> Technology doesn't always unite. Indeed, technology rarely does what the
> prophets say it will do.
>
> Richard
>
>
> At 4:46 PM -0400 4/4/99, Dave Farber wrote:
> > > "
> > > http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg040499.htm
> > >
> > >  Globalism, tribalism collide in events
> > >
> > >  THE ancient and the modern are colliding everywhere, as tribalism
> > > confronts globalism, but rarely with such reverberation as in the past week.
> > >
> > >  The collision was spawning agony in the Balkans, where today's
> > > highest-tech weapons have failed against some of humanity's most primeval
> > > instincts. An ongoing clash was playing out in corporate boardrooms,
> > > meanwhile, where giant oil and Internet mergers were redrawing the economic
> > > landscape as surely as the Serbs and NATO were trying to redraw the
> > > political one.
> > >
> > >  No one should equate the horrors in Kosovo and neighboring lands with
> > > financial deals. But these events are all part of a continuing struggle
> > > between forces that may never be reconciled: the local vs. the global. "