In Doug's NATION article he wrote:
Instead of chasing nationalist chimeras, why not go "globalization" one better? Many activists in the wrongly named "antiglobalization" movement still talk locally, even as they're acting and thinking globally.
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"Antiglobalization" is indeed the wrong word.
The European Social Forum is characterized now meeting in Paris with enormous success and very favorable media coverage (to judge by France 2's "Le Journal", broadcast daily on NYC Channel 25 at 7PM) is characterized, rightly, as *Alterglobalist*
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This is a very exciting idea to me and reflects the facts of my daily life.
One day I woke up and realized that I'm a globalist.
I'm married to a woman from S. Korea so now a strong Korean sub-text has been added to my thinking and Korean artifacts to my living space.
I have friends from around the globe so my previousy all-American view of things is impossible to maintain.
I enjoy foods and entertainment and information from a variety of cultures and nations and would feel impoverished if this global source were to disappear.
There's a Samsung PDA in my pocket, a German car in the driveway and a French electronica CD in the Japanese (made in China) CD player whose firmware codeset was written by Indian and American developers.
Everyone everywhere should have these options, and many more not related to consumerism, available to them. Everyone, everywhere should understand these linkages.
I am full-bore against provincialism or roll-back-the-clockism or fool's paradises of some pre-tech, pre-globalized eden.
So no, not anti-globalization but alter-globalization.
We should become more profoundly global. Yes.
As I've written in these virtual pages before, I believe this is something folks like neo-sci-fi novelists, members of various sub-cultures and others at the leading edge of modes of life and thinking have understood for a while. Far better, it seems, than many activists who rightly see the horrible underside but not the potential for something unprecedentedly spectacular.
DRM
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