What is the nature of globalization?
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Why go anywhere?
The family took an hour-and-a-half drive yesterday from San Antonio to Fredricksburg. The drive was beautiful through the rolling limestone hills. Ultimately, we come upon a town with strong German influences (the tourist draw). Fredricksburg is a three street-light town with a main drag that has every kind of Texas kitsch thing possible.
But here's the thing...While geographically isolated, you find the same kind of consumerism as with anywhere else. There was nothing that couldn't be bought online, tea cozies or otherwise. What was being sold (what tourist were buying) was some kind of bullshit narrative about a culture that does not exist, cannot exist in a global economy. The "German" restaurant we went to had food that was generic at best and a beer selection as unique as Applebee's. Fredricksburg was essentially an intellectual draw. What attracted me was the idea of going someplace that would have a unique culture (isn't that the point of tourism). How do I experience a "new" place? What effects me? Why go anywhere?
However, as we live in a global economy, cultures are supported globally. For example, Tibetan buddhism, which has not existed in Tibet for almost 50 years now, is a culture/belief that is supported through communities that are nowhere near Tibet. It's something like an Americans talking about how they're Irish, Italian, Polish, and French. I can only think no...no, you're not. You're American. By definition. So how the hell can we identify as anything we are a variety of things, yet we are nothing. Some people say we need to define ourselves in a more complex manner, but that only contributes to the post-post-modern day-terror that is 21st century Capitalism. How is one McDonald's any different from another? Are the differences important? The models of macro-micro are broken beyond repair. They simply don't work in this day and age. What becomes necessary is a stream of conscious dialectic, like the internet, only it needs to inform the way our society functions. There needs to be a dramatic focus on technology and the environment because those are the only two things that will save us from our greedy greedy need. *thinks of DMB "Don't Drink the Water*
Why go anywhere? Why go anywhere if the culture is conforming to a capitalistic model? Is tourism dead? Is eco-tourism the future if there isn't any anthropological tourism?
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Why go anywhere?
The family took an hour-and-a-half drive yesterday from San Antonio to Fredricksburg. The drive was beautiful through the rolling limestone hills. Ultimately, we come upon a town with strong German influences (the tourist draw). Fredricksburg is a three street-light town with a main drag that has every kind of Texas kitsch thing possible.
But here's the thing...While geographically isolated, you find the same kind of consumerism as with anywhere else. There was nothing that couldn't be bought online, tea cozies or otherwise. What was being sold (what tourist were buying) was some kind of bullshit narrative about a culture that does not exist, cannot exist in a global economy. The "German" restaurant we went to had food that was generic at best and a beer selection as unique as Applebee's. Fredricksburg was essentially an intellectual draw. What attracted me was the idea of going someplace that would have a unique culture (isn't that the point of tourism). How do I experience a "new" place? What effects me? Why go anywhere?
However, as we live in a global economy, cultures are supported globally. For example, Tibetan buddhism, which has not existed in Tibet for almost 50 years now, is a culture/belief that is supported through communities that are nowhere near Tibet. It's something like an Americans talking about how they're Irish, Italian, Polish, and French. I can only think no...no, you're not. You're American. By definition. So how the hell can we identify as anything we are a variety of things, yet we are nothing. Some people say we need to define ourselves in a more complex manner, but that only contributes to the post-post-modern day-terror that is 21st century Capitalism. How is one McDonald's any different from another? Are the differences important? The models of macro-micro are broken beyond repair. They simply don't work in this day and age. What becomes necessary is a stream of conscious dialectic, like the internet, only it needs to inform the way our society functions. There needs to be a dramatic focus on technology and the environment because those are the only two things that will save us from our greedy greedy need. *thinks of DMB "Don't Drink the Water*
Why go anywhere? Why go anywhere if the culture is conforming to a capitalistic model? Is tourism dead? Is eco-tourism the future if there isn't any anthropological tourism?
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I have not heard of him, but I will surely look him up. Psychological books are quite difficult for me to read, especially when the kanguage used gets very technical. So I can't really answer wether or not they are accurate.
Energy waves...nothing as beautiful as energy. Often I have been asked if I can use it to harm people but it is not meant like that. I don't even consider it an option. I love it when I can feel someone loved, or make them feel love by just channeling energy.
Its something given to us all, yet so many limit themselves to other things.
I would love to learn more about it, however it seems I have a natural 'talent' for it and not many can teach me. (even though even the smallest child can still teach me something.)
Hope you enjoyed my writings as well