The future of globalization
Brexit
provoked a conversation on globalization, and my final position was as follows:
When it
comes to globalization, I am uncharacteristically fatalistic! The power,
volume, and flow of information can no longer be controlled or contained, and
whether it is good or bad (it is I think both good and bad), globalization’s future is a relentless but a
stuttered course forward.
Self-interested
systems that oppose it will lose their ability to oppose it and get weaker in
the process. Do I think new
self-interested systems will be more enlightened or more perfect? No, not
at all. They too will be a mixture of good and bad, depending
on context and perceived values. Why would we want the blandness of a
perfect or moral system? For one, it cannot exist or survive and secondly, life
is imperfect and amoral – let us live it to the full with all its mixture.
Fast-forward
modern globalization is here with us in our next journey as Sapiens!!
Where it will take us, I do not know nor want to know – but I am here to
accept the reality and the challenges, opportunities, dreams, and
excitement that go with it.
Venkat
