IP: Globalism, tribalism collide in events

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>"
>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. "