WB on its critics

[Luke Weiger]

> It is; I've even got the nexis stats to prove it (though usage in the
> first half of 2001 was off a bit from 2000H1, after a sharp five-
> year rise). I think one should name the things that "globalization"
> effaces - the intensification of market disciplines, the shredding of
> the welfare state, the growth of imperial power - and, holding
> contradictory thoughts firmly in mind, also point, a la Empire, to
> the good things hidden within it, like cosmpolitanism, fascinating
> cultural cross-pollination, etc.
>
> Doug

Not only is such an approach more intellectually honest; it's also more
likely to be intellectually convincing.

-- Luke