Monday, October 1, 2018

It never occurred to me

 

That being a Globalist would be a bad thing.

 

I thought that with advances in technology, travel, and communication; and developing understanding of issues that are truly global in nature, that we would naturally gravitate to a broader view, fostering broader understanding and cooperation.  Now I find the term “Globalist” used as an epithet.  In today’s nativist consciousness of “us versus them”, a globalist is a very bad person.

 

I’m a bad person.  I don’t think our world-view should revolve around winning and preventing other people from doing better.  Not every transaction has to be based on winning.  Sometimes we should give something up or do what we can for someone else, just because it’s the right thing to do and we have the means.   If everyone does better, we all do better.  If all we want is to win, and all the people we’re trying to prevent from winning want is to win, we might push back and forth, but none of us really get anywhere.

 

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