Why are most people apprehensive of globalism? Isn’t
it better if the whole world is organized from one center with no wars, conflicts,
borders and custom control? Probably it is due to the negative experience with
the infectiveness and wastefulness of organizations like the UN and the EU and
above all the lack of accountability that causes the wastefulness and probably
the ineffectiveness too. It is much more easier to control your local council
at a town hall meeting than a faceless global company that pays its taxes in
some offshore entity. That and the inherent corruption and ineffectiveness of
major international organizations like the UN and EU gives globalism a bad
name. On the other hand, we all love the global internet and ultimately benefit
from international agreements facilitating global travel, currency exchange and
goods delivery. The simple answer is - globalism is good, but it is still to
crude to be satisfactory. More accountability and transparency will deprive it
from its tendency to slide towards corruption and waste covered by secrecy. If
you think about it the mayor of New York and the general secretary of the UN
located in the same city may seem equally distant to the locals there.
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