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. "