There are two kinds of globalization. One strives to dominate or coerce world
opinion and culture. The other emphasizes negotiation, conciliation, and
cooperation between differing nations and cultures.
Historically, communities throughout the world have been settled, fought over
and resettled in a continual pattern of coercion, interdependence,
and finally cooperation.
This long-term pattern has been repeated many times throughout the history of
civilization.
In recent centuries, states, nations have begun to confederate
under a sovereign will based on interactive principles of shared community,
combined with individual freedoms.
Within a few generations, the USA, the European Union, the Arab League,
the South American Alliance, and most recently the African Union
have all begun to take the shape of distributed environments.
Imagine powerful unions in South America, Mexico, the Middle East, Africa, and
Asia sharing resources through a unified distribution of smaller states or
countries.
Strengthened by individual power and socio-economic unity,
a large middle-class would emerge, limiting the scourge of poverty and
despair, and reducing unnecessary social and political instability.
