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> Who can defeat the global system? Certainly not the anti-globalization movement
> whose sole objective is to slow down global deregulation. This movement's
> political impact may well be important. But its symbolic impact is worthless.
News flash: we're not anti-globo, we're the global justice movement.
> The passage from the universal to the global has given rise to a constant
> homogenization, but also to an endless fragmentation.
Really? Has he asked the Chinese workers getting paid pennies a day to suck toxic fumes for Nike's latest gear?
> The establishment of a global system is the result of an intense jealousy.
Baudrillard is sort of the George Gilder of France, only without the long position in Qualcomm. Or maybe the Merovingian is a better metaphor.
-- DRR