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"Maybe Amazon shouldn't hold more value than the Amazon rainforest" bro came out swinging

Neo-andean architecture is actually a great example of modern architecture that rejects the "glass skyscraper" model in favor of something unique, culturally significant and full of color.

The globe was never able to hold a single hegemony, that's why empires that try to span the globe always end up falling apart, just a matter of time before it happens to the capitalist/American hegemony

Thank you StAndrewism from Taiwan. Ive been grieving how the hype around AI and NVIDIA is overlooking the extrwme environmental cost to Taiwan thats only getting worse for our mountains, mother rivers and farmers and indigenous peoples. Half of the islands water is legally relegated to big tech for the world's semiconductor production. The actual usage is even higher and is destroying connections to ourselves and each other. And for what, for faster wars and more burned out sameness everywhere?

Recently found out that they banned kids at my lil cousins school (where I went too when small) from speaking our mother tongue Shona- it’s a Portuguese school btw.

This video just reminded me of a tiktok I saw talking about how the world has become less colourful in terms of culture but also products. There are very few cars that aren't black or some shade of grey. look at Macbooks or even typical architecture these days. The world is becoming so dull and it sucks.

I studied economics at school, and at first I was sooo deadset on making as much money as possible. What I didn't expect was a deep depression about the way the European economies rely on the former imperial periphery for all their resources, yet also crush unions and exploit the hell out of these countries

One of the biggest failures of globalism was the transfer of jobs and industry to Asia, the so-called "China phenomenon" and now our western clothes are made with child labor in sweatshops. In cold countries like Finland, this creates an ethical dilemma because you don't want to support child labor or sweatshops, but clothes are an obligated necessity for survival and people have to be able to afford them because there aren't enough jobs for everyone, which is why people don't have money for expensive local/domestic products, i.e. luxuries (for example, a winter jacket made in Asia costs around 100 euros or more, while one made in Finland costs around 1.000 euros or more).

"There also seemed to be an over focus on particular acts of confrontation with authorities and not enough acts of prefiguration to meet people's needs and build a more resilient base of support for the struggle". I can't tell you enough how much this statement means, as someone who worked for an int'l social justice organization and fought for rights for the marginalized from Atlanta to Palestine, and how much I appreciate you saying we need a diversified front of new actions that fundamentally support a profound system of global sustainability and economics that regards life itself first.

Make multinational corporations pay allmost 0% taxes and then wonder why they succeed all around the world when local buisnesses on the other hand are squeezed for more tay money to make up for the budged hole of the state....

It's haunting how much my home country of Ireland has become a little america in the last one hundred years. Our various cultures were dissolved into one "irish" culture which itself is transforming to conform with american norms, more and more people now speak with americanized accents with view points lining up more politically and culturally with american norms. We have the good fortune that what little cultural quirks we have left are interestingly quaint enough to be survived as commodities to be sold to tourists and in some twisted way to be sold back to us. There are tiny pockets of quare little remnants of the older cultures dotted across the country but you have to go out of your way to find those as the government are more concerned with promoting what tourists already believe is ireland, to be fair anything too odd seems to scare them off, they'd rather spend €15 on a stone from someones yard with a little spiral draw on it. And with how dublin centric the county has become those pockets of culture are fading away.

biodiversity and by association human diversity is our fundamental responsibility to preserve (even enhance) if our very minds are to maintain their sensitivity to learning new things and experiencing the depths of life.

As someone who is into fashion, it really gets me upset that because of globalization many cultures' traditional clothes have virtually disappeared, now being relegated to just being worn for certain holidays.

Freedom for oppressive systems to do their thing destroys imagination, is boring, tends to always look the same. Freedom for the people accomplishes similar goals in different settings but in beautiful, creative ways. There is one system we are collectively resisting, and billions of possibilities arising as alternatives.

Globalization is hierarchy. It's simple as that as their is no need to confuse words that mean 'expansion'. Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Hierarchy, Imperialism... it is all about getting bigger and bigger, more and more. We need Decolonization efforts. Indigenous want and need what they had to share with the lands, waters, animals... not Globalization of Colonialism

I was actually discussing this with my friends a couple of days ago 😳!!! Thank you, once again, for another great video addressing the issues of our society.

It's very sad that a lot of people would see this video and immediately call it evil or terrorism. It's as if some people are incapable of hearing a differing view and being able to calmly consider it. They feel like even just THINKING about a new idea will corrupt them. Good video, man.

The "learning from the past attempts" part of the video was really great! I think a lot of leftist essays have either a complete lack of advice about moving forward or they just give examples of past attempts, that most of the time failed, and do not consider how we can IMPROVE on them. Really good stuff and hope to see more of it in future videos!

I always said that societies lost their uniqueness when we stopped wearing cultural clothes as everyday wear.

So glad someone is talking about this. I started reading a book this spring recounting the stories of the anti-globalization movement that really opened my eyes. Never learned anything about this in school, and even my parents had no recollection of the battle of seattle. It feels like the history itself was hidden. Also VERY fascinated to hear reasons for the decline of the movement, my search so far had been fruitless. I would add the Cochabamba Water War as an important event for the movement as well. I just finished a chapter on the death of Carlo Giuliani during the action in Genoa. The book implies that the aftermath made violent resistance controversial and vastly reduced the participation of people in the western world. Aside from barely hearing about anti-globalization until this year, I never hear about social movements in the global south, successes or failures, and I'm excited about the potential of a new movement to reconnect the people of the global south to the global north.

Im studying economics right now and whenever im struggling with the workload in uni im coming to your chanel. This and many other ideas on here, are exactly what i hope to contribute towards with my degree! Thank you for keeping me motivated!

Yes I realized that modernization has meant the homogenization of societies with the same bleak commercialist and consumerist values of soulless material growth and consumption. Every city looks practically the same with little to no cultural representation nor creativity. Sure urban planning is serious and should be with safety in mind, but that doesn’t mean loss of colors and vibrant vibes. Sustainability isn’t only the rational basis but also a symbol of love to our posterity and families that will be when we’re gone. My first discussion about this topic funnily enough was in blogs critical of the Westernization of the fictional Avatar the Last Airbender world in Legend of Korra by the western creators and their biases of progress.

This video is absolutely excellent but I have to say my favorite part was when you cited an academic called Jerry Mander

Globalization in its current (recent?) form might be something where left and right can agree upon that it's bad. Left: Imperialism and outsourcing is bad for working people in both countries (people in rich country loose job, people in poor country get exploited) Right: We must keep our industry in our country and can't loose it to other countries.

Can you make a living excel sheet that's updated with your recommended reading lists and links to non-Amazon site to buy them? I feel like there's a new book I want to read with every video!

Lately it is feeling like that episode of fairly odd parents when the pixies take over and turn everything gray

I ended up in hospital after the Melbourne protest against the IMF/World Bank summit there... got a nice pay out from the State tho.

As a Trini I realized Globalisation was taking a hold when my little cousins had american accents without ever stepping foot on a plane.

what you said about cultural globalisation resonates a lot with me sadly, the globalists made it so that in order to overcome one's low social condition, one has to learn their codes, their cultures and their languages. They made all locals willingly strive towards globals as a way to socially elevate. It's the harsh reality

Haven't watched yet but I am excited to see another post! Always look forward to Mr Andrew Ism and his fabulous videos. Hope you're having a lovely pride month and doing well!

Another absolutely fantastic video!! This is something that has been on my mind for a loooong time, and its so great to see you communicate the issue so well! Even on a local scale (ie in the same state/city) this is a noticeable issue. Like a strip mall or suburb in one part of the city looks very similar to another part of the city, even if the surrounding culture of those areas in the city are completely different. This makes it hard for wayfinding, but also just makes the city less interesting. By contrast, older cities often have very distinctive 'zones' that differ fairly significantly due to their local culture (whether that be due to a certain demographic that lived there, or a certain craft they were known for, or even just the geographic features). I'd LOVE to live in a world where not only different cities around the world looked different, but even different areas in the same city/state looked different. Where you could have an actual adventure just traveling from one side of your city/state/country to another.

Just so everyone knows, Milton Friedman had to gingerly walk back his position on the virtues of free market and globalization and admit that it might be a complete and utter disaster.

Thank you for broaching subjects that many people are unwilling to discuss. Love your content, keep on keeping on 👍

I think this is what has been bugging me about the new houses in our village. For context i live in a village in one of the mountainous areas of eastern Czechia, people move here because they want a break from the city and my village is just so conveniently placed and ran that things aren't that expensive, we still have nature but were also close enough to a city and have 2 smaller shops, so a lot of people move here. I always hated how their houses looked, like genuinely despised on an artistic level. Our traditional architecture is pretty standard, like dark wood, green ( on rare occasions blue ) doors and windows with white details and white walls in places where something isn't built out of wood. They're very beautiful especially if they also maybe have red flowers on the window and cups on their fences. Our other type of house, the 2 story family houses, usually aren't *that* unique from other regions of the czech republic, you couldn't tell where you are based on the buildings alone, but they still have clear character. They tend to be very colorful and they have unique architecture so that even if they aren't region specific they're aesthetically pleasing. The new houses from the people from the city are lifeless. Uterlly boring white boxes with black roofs. You can't tell them apart from each other and they look so..non distinct. Like our traditional houses are distinct by region, our 2 story family houses look very unique from each other but they are nothing. The same goes for a lot of "modern" architecture in our cities i feel like. Big ass glass and steel giants which you could place in Tokyo, Krakow, Zagrab or Cairo and they wouldn't look totally out of place. Non distinct. Unfortunately this goes beyond architecture and to everything. There is less regional identification, although this may be a nationalism thing and not a capitalism and globalism thing. Our dialects are also disappearing. We still talk fast, leave out the j often and say "kaj" instead of "kde" and "bo" instead of "protože" but we sound way closer to the people from Prague that we like to make fun of so much for how they speak than to plenty of our ancestors. The fact a lot of the youth also uses so much English in their slang also rubs me the wrong way, like we have a rich language thats more expressive and has more possibilities for sentences than English but yet that's where we take most of our new phrases from ( or we steal slang from the Roma that's also an option i guess )

Amazing video as always! Linguistics and minority languages is what drove me to anarchy. Although there are a lot of small languages dying there are also a lot of successful language revival and revitalization (such as Manx, Basque, Balinese And the languages of Bangsamoro) I am from the Visayas in the Philippines and my dad is half Basque half Balinese. Do not fret comrades although things seem bleak there is still hope the global capitalist empire will fall eventually.

It is interesting how this reality plays into a broader worldview. Some biased people look at different societies that have been largely homogenized after decades of capitalism and draw conclusions about human nature, failing to see that the contexts are similar between the societies they are comparing. These then inform some strains of thought in evolutionary psychology or anthropology.

Globalization existed in Antiquity to a large degree.. It's just that nobody was going around civilizing other peoples..

im so grateful ive found someone who puts the effort into reading and researching topics ive been interested in but too lazy to read about.

I’ve never really taken much interest in the medium of painting/drawing, but the art that you showcase in your videos is absolutely beautiful. It feels like there’s a whole world of art that I’ve yet to discover

Great subject! Have been thinking about this concept for a while now (mostly pertaining to linguistics though) and it's so disheartening!

I wonder if the fall of American hegemony takes the form of this globalization. The world superpower, almost by its own intent, acknowledges its own failure of imperialism by seeding itself into other cultures. American hegemony may not be fading, but taking a new form by "diversifying" itself. Domestic hegemony has to fall away so that it can spread itself through global influence. American and British domestic affairs following Reagan/Thatcher leadership could be an indicator of this. Globalisation succeeds where overt imperialism fails

One issue I have with anarchism is the hyperfocus on local communities and production. Even though a lot of the things he said in the video (and in previous videos) can be traced at hierarchy and exploration, i cannot understand why a post-capitalism international network of coordination isn't being discussed. I know he speaks for international solidarity, but it mainly refers to solidarity against a struggle, or perhaps a mutual aid in the case of emergencies. The only case of international coordination i have seen in anarchy theory(or better a term, intercommunal) are federation, which however they only get mentioned and their potential intricacies aren't being discussed

thank you for all this evidence for something i already saw as flawed. your videos are so illuminating, and beautiful, i love the art you add and your voice on top. Dope!

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you have no idea just how much we have already lost. Ancient building techniques from the middle adges that we now try to reconstruct because of its superiority or the original composition of terra preta. But to me the most glaring example is what you can buy at the supermarket. There are several times more different varieties of cucumbers or carrots or tomatos alone then there are different fruits and vegetables in the supermarket. 200 different passion fruits are used as food for example, there are bananas that taste like berries, white strawberries black aswell and egg white tomatoes and so on. A ton of different vegetables and fruittrees have been lost thx to standartisation... not to mention all that flaura and fauna thx to monoculture and pesticides.

thank you so much for speaking about the Congo! i already admired your channel and what points you raise but omg this is one of the first times that i've seen it genuinely spoken about in a yt video

Globalization for them, atomization for us

Merci, Tu écris et tu montes avec beaucoup de passion, de sensibilité artistique tout en étant extrêment instruit sur ces sujets. Que Dieu te garde. 💓

Another great one, Andrew! Just found your channel a little while ago, going through older ones, big fan of it, especially the Library Economy, and very much appreciate your collaboration with Srsly Wrong Boys from time to time.

Listening to this during a miserable commute

Mate, you're great. Honestly the video was amazing. The people, places, the stories... And the quality of the video is out of this world. Pure art bro. I love KZfaq

Great title and i agree. Thailand 12 years ago and Thailand now…. Wow what a difference. There was something strong and peaceful and friendly about the people there (the avg person) that’s simply not there anymore without searching very hard. Tourism has increased and it hurts my heart. People go there and just shop, while the population smiles extra big… just to get their business. You can find tons of tourists there that don’t try hard at all to meet a normal Thai person… they just want cheap meals, cheap massages, and don’t seem interested at all in getting to know Thai people and sharing meals with them and being nice (for lack of better words). They go there just to spend money on cheap goods, labor, and have easier access to women. The Thai people feed right into it for the most part. The Thai people try hard to keep their customs but it’s too late. You see parades with the traditional clothing etc… but if you walk the opposite way the parade is going…. The girls and boys are so mad about being there… and when they have to stop cuz the parade slows….they sit down and stare at their phones. I had to fight so hard to prove myself to a Thai women and her family (for a while i thought she was the one) and last time I went there, good girls would ask me on dates for no other reason IMO except they thought I was rich because I’m white. I’d prefer to be judged negatively on a first impression and have to prove myself. Their clothes…. Yup, just like this video says… mostly global or western style clothes. You should see the pictures for 30 years ago…. All Thai clothes. They had such a strong culture even 10 years ago. I met maybe 50 single women, through my ex girlfriend who worked as Nannie’s in the west…. Zero of them can find a Thai man and even say they won’t date a thai man. Most of em will be childless simply because they don’t see an avg Thai man’s wages as good enough for them The population is going to crash super hard in most countries Amazing how much ‘progress’ has messed us all up However, I think the world is starting to be forced into a new reality, that will slowly be better. I think the nasty results of capitalism is gonna seem like it causes an Armageddon type situation which will force spiritual awakenings. The people will lose their minds and be forced to learn what’s right or die holding onto the old reality that they so strongly believed in. We need to lose all value in material things as a whole global community to get back to our human roots and move forward into a wonderful peaceful spiritual place. I know I would have a completely different life if I didn’t lose everything including my mind as I began my awakening process. I think we are so close to a situation that does to everyone what has happened to only a rare few people so far. Humanity is going to change fast soon.

22:50 there's something to be said about the difference between cross-pollination and invasion. Cross pollination implies adopting features from other sources that provide benefits in their new context while maintaining what was already working. While invasion implies an entirely foreign influence coming in and taking up all the space such that nothing but itself can survive, even if it is not ideal in it's new context.

I watched this video yesterday and today for my geopolitics exam one of the questions was whether the advantages of globalisation outweigh its disadvantages. So obvs I did that question and cooked so tysm for this vid I’m actually subscribing as a sign of my gratitude.

great lesson on how we got here..... but what about action? i'll dive into the primary source..... "Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization" ... was ... disappointing. it then linked to "Why We Don't Make Demands" ... which tries to make a case... but fails i will go into "Why We Don't Make Demands" as it is trying to make a position that is more interesting ..... - ". When was the last time 400,000 people were anywhere in New York without the police arresting anyone? That was protest not just as pressure valve, but as active pacification-as a way of diminishing the friction between protesters and the order they oppose. " - i agree here that protests are a pressure release, not action. - "Limiting a movement to specific demands stifles diversity, setting it up for failure." ... they are not wrong that making demands also shows your hand.. that's fair. but it's also the reality of the situation. if you do not want to make demands, then you are not even playing the same game. and if you are not playing the same game then the people with the guns can just crush you. all the examples in the essays are not showing the reality that the movements did not have actual strength behind them. they were facades. seizing a location with no power extraction from that location does nothing. creating power vacuums does nothing if they are not filled. --------- i'll give these articles one thing... they make me REALLY understand why the left's tactics bother me so much. they yell about problems but also don't have solutions and reject other peoples solutions. they are like people that have not explored their emotional responses and can't express them coherently, they just flail in frustration with emotional dysregulation. "It’s not our job to present ready-made solutions that the masses can applaud from the sidelines; leave that to demagogues. Our challenge, rather, is to create spaces where people can discuss and implement solutions directly, on an ongoing and collective basis. Rather than proposing quick fixes, we should be spreading new practices. We don’t need blueprints, but points of departure." lets break this down: "create spaces where people can discuss and implement solutions directly" ok... so do that... buy land, incorporate a town, and so this. "spreading new practices." sure.. they can do that right now in their affinity cells and then in their towns. "We don’t need blueprints, but points of departure."" this is just rhetoric. unless we are to admit that the systems as they are , are actually ok.. and all the left is asking for is for THEM to depart ... but they can , see the point about building their own towns. "Rather than proposing quick fixes," yup... nothing i just laid out is quick ---------------- "Our one demand: don’t mess with us." lets remember this is EXACTLY what jan6th-insurrectionists want. it is incredible how fascists are better at using direct action other anarchist techniques then the left.

Excited for this one!

in my food and the environment class we learned that the reason a lot of people in developing countries face starvation due to capitalism and globalization is because it caused them to shift to growing commodity crops. they then had to sell food to make money, and if their crops failed they had no money to buy food and couldn’t eat their own crops.

Whoa. I had to stop the video and comment before I forgot what I was going to say. I have to give it to you Andrew, with one word you just shifted things in my mind on globalization: inter-reliant. I felt like I had a huge eureka, “oh shit,” moment when you said that.

This topic has pissed me off for years as a musician, all music forms of popular music over the world in any country that has any money just sounds exactly like western pop music/rock/jazz whatever. It's prety unfuriating that in order to try and hear a recording of an original song which maintains some kind of cultural influence I have to go back to the 50s. Been listening to Abdel Halim Hafez to get a taste of actual Egyptian music rather than one million bad bunny, drake, and drill clones that modern music all throughout the world has become. While I'm ranting I may as well touch on electronic music, house music represented Chigago, Garage the UK and Techno Germany and Central Europe. In my opinion we've lost all of the local character of our music in order to produce exclusively watered down American music to be as appealing to as many pepole as possible over the world.

Always appreciate the thoughtfulness and depth of your videos. Hoping and working for a better world.

Sent over here by the F.D Signifer channel. Definitely gonna subscribe. One of the bands I grew up with was Thievery Corporation. Didn't really think much about the message til I saw them live in concert several years ago chanting "Fuck you IMF" during the song Vampires. But I can't stop hearing that song while listening to this video. Anyway, you got me wanting to actually read books and dig deeper on this stuff

I'm glad you're working on leftist critiques of globalization! While it's not the focus of the video, I think the line at 2:08 is worth expanding on. While most conservative concerns about globalization are obviously motivated by xenophobia, manafacturing workers have suffered legitimate economic harms from the outsourcing of their labor to countries with lower labor standards. From 1980 - 2014, manafacturing jobs were nearly halved in the US, which destroyed the economies of entire towns. A lot of the conservatives I know grew up in a town centered around a paper mill. When the paper mill closed, the jobs closed with it. A lot of the people living there tend conservative, because they don't see any discussion of the harms of globalization in mainstream or even progressive movements. I think it's important for us to validate, and include these concerns as part of leftist movements, because manafacturing workers play a critical role in the labor movement. (i.e. the UAW).

Thank you so much for all you do!

feeling hopeful

Today I talked to a lady who asked for directions. I told her her destination was close to McDonalds. She seemed confused and I asked her if she knew McDonalds, which she didn't. It blew my mind, but afterward I thought it was actually pretty amazing she didn't (living in the Netherlands). I wonder how....

As much as I agree with this video and love the points you made, I feel that a counterpoint should also be made. 1. Thanks to globalization, communication has become more efficient than it ever has before. Especially with the internet in the modern day, I can literally send a DM to someone on the other side of the world and they’ll be able to read it almost immediately. 2. Culture isn’t the past. Culture is an evolving tradition and its people. Just because some culture dissapears doesn’t mean that it’s “bad”. Especially cultures that actively oppress certain types of people. Also, culture evolves. Even if it seems that everything is the same, the world is also becoming more diverse, and instead of culture being regional, it’s becoming interest based (i.e instead of anime being a japanese thing, it’s become a global phenomenon that people who appreciate the art can enjoy) 3. Socialism. Even if it feels that capitalism is ruining everything, alot of countries are embracing and even adopting communist/socialist policies (like public healthcare, welfare programs, and public education). This is natural and capitalism isn’t taking over. In fact, like your point in the video, capitalism is failing, that’s why a neo capitalist-socialist system is being more accepted throughout the world. Now there’s alot more that I’d like to say, but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. This is in no way saying that your points are wrong, I agree with them whole heartedly. However, I feel that globalization has brought more good than bad to the world so far, and I’m just adding to your conclusion at the end.

Globalism has been around for thousands of years. Not at the level that it is currently, but long distance trade networks have been around for a very long time. The trade between Africa, India, and the rest of Asia, while not, including the Americas or Europe, to a great extent was the beginning of it. Once the Europeans started colonizing the new world and expanding their own trade networks to reach Asia in the 15th-17th centuries, globalization was here, and it was here to stay.

Very good breakdown sometimes I push my role in the whole thing to the back of my mind thank you for reminding me we all have a responsibility big or small everyone has a role in it..

I wonder how frustated must feel an american tourist in foreign countries when they encounter McDonalds, Starbucks, Apple, glass skyline, cars, etc... He just travel to another city of the anerucan empire

Wish we could go into any town and NOT find a stupid chain, be it food, auto, gas, etc... Local and unique wherever you go is wanting so much...

I hope to see more permablitzing among organized groups and other quickly coordinated group activities. Preferably organizing to meet a need, but also to group party. Especially at occupations. Gardens and creations will often be destroyed by the powers at hand but not always and they can help sustain groups during actions as well as empower people involved.

Could you please add Crimethink's video you mentioned to the description of this video? I can't find it. Thank you for your consideration

Got a couple of seeds of ideas for plays/theatrical experiences from this one! Thanks for another great video.

globalization didn't fail you. capitalism did.

Hi Andrew, I was wondering if you've seen Radical Planning's video on Third Places and The Right to the City? What are your thoughts on it? It seems like the way you describe third places has a lot of parallels to the right to the city.

The big protests you mention are the mushrooms on top of the mycelum of all tiny projects and experiments for alternatives. Yet, sadly, as seen with the social hubs in Amsterdam, it's actually also often creating value for capitalists. The broken down neighbourhoods they revitalise actually always is followed project developers making the money, created by art and aliveness as more and more people want to move to these zones.

We need more Alter-Globalization in terms of reversing the westernization of Fashion and Architecture in my honest opinion

People should know more about ornamental persian architecture and gardens and how pretty they are. Sadly you can't see that in today's tehran, everything is big glass ugly buildings, a liminal space.

If a pair of inferior shoes costs more today in America, what are the effects of globalization in the rest of the world? But the loss of distinct cultural and ethnic identities (not to mention environmental habitats) is the worst result.

People, society were brought up to be motivated, advancing and wealth and fame if possible. Those are the elements of greed. No one can force others to be greedy Andrew. Greed has been and always will the biggest ignorance. Now, if we are ignorance of greed, what’s going to stop us from continue that mentality in perpetuity? Andrew, I’m glad you’re beginning to see the sufferings greed impacted on us all. Please continue your discernment and open your mind to deeper teaching. Love your video.

As always, another insightful and well rounded video, contextualizing and critiquing the main issue while pointing the way towards potential solutions. I was particularly struck by the images of vastly different cities coming to look identical - a global mono-culture indeed. The environmental degradation was clear to me, but the endangerment of cultures was not something that i had consciously acknowledged before. I got a kind of existential dread from the idea that cultural practices could go extinct on a mass scale like no other. Such lost potential in such a world. One tricky aspect of revolting against globalism worth emphasizing in this context is the promotion of individual national identity (such that each nation has its own culture, promoting diversity) without thereby promoting the kind of nationalism that generates fascism (through an overemphasis of ones own culture over the culture of others). This problem engages with the conservative critiques of globalism, where they amount to an aversion to be influenced by foreign cultures and peoples more broadly. I don't have a particular solution, just thought this was a worthwhile problem to bring up in this context.

We need more Alter-Globalization in terms of reversing the westernization of Fashion and Architecture in my opinion...

Much appreciated thoughts, as I was reflecting on my 20s and wondered, where did I get the grand idea that "city life" was so high and mighty and somehow "international"? How did I get bought into the idea that I was being secular and cultural? Motherfucking neoliberal globalization baybeeeee

Man, I friggin felt that.

Echo chamber type upload . Alot was said without context or evidence. It just paints a doom and gloom picture. Also showing a book on the topic you're talking abt only shows that there's a book on tbe topic you're talking about. Like it was nice but im gonna have to reaserch all this stuff because the video didn't expound on anything and that's if i care . If I dont ill just ignore it or belive what you aay. this vid was like an explanation essay with no explanation because it tried to be an argumentative essay. The time line and events are a mess. ( no hate tho intresting topic bad delivery)

I'm from chicago il and once drove to texas, and I remember an intense feeling of depression during the trip because everything was the same, same brands, same building styles only difference the whole way was the ecosystem. I know it's the same country but I really expected to see something new the whole drive

How do you feel about decentralized lending such as Kiva?

Where is the link about the history of airconditioning? Its not posted

A fascinating essay. I deeply agree with this, I’d love a world where local competition is able to exist but (C)apital is discouraged. Just how to achieve that is unclear, but you have a very good point that that’s down to a lack of imagination.

Beautfully made and articulated. Thank you very much

Triste ver o Brasil demolir toda a beleza da nossa antiga arquitetura para construir essas construções ridículas. É assim que o Rio de Janeiro foi de uma cidade linda e maravilhosa do melhor dos dois lados, da natureza e da arquitetura para um verdadeiro hospício e lixo.

2:03 "driven by Xenophobia..." would you say this about a non-white country/group protesting immigration he same way? Massive amounts of migrants who will A) tolerate lower pay and B) tolerate any sort of living standard in the United States because it's likely going to be better than back home, results in lower/stagnant wages, especially for industries that were once dominated by unions (read about the meat packing industry...), and will inevitably result in housing issues - where I'm from, there are a lot of immigrants who will tolerate the high rents since there will deadass be 10+ of them to a rented house, but someone who was born and raised in America obviously won't want to do that just to afford housing, and will inevitably get priced out. In addition, America is one of the few countries that allows non-citizens to own property, and as such areas like NYC, LA, Miami, etc. have huge amounts of property owned by foreign billionaires from China, Russia, the Arabian Gulf, Latin America, etc. who rent these places out and run them like slumlords... from thousands of miles away in their home country. In addition the conservative/right-wing movement is starting to accept that unbridled capitalism has done more to demolish their culture/tradition/values more than the communists could. 50+ years of communist rule in Poland could not break the strength and influence of the Catholic Church there, but just 30 years of liberal capitalist influence has greatly diminished its role in society.

《 Arrays of nanodiodes promise full conservation of energy》 A simple rectifier crystal can, iust short of a replicatable long term demonstration of a powerful prototype, almost certainly filter the random thermal motion of electrons or discrete positiive charged voids called holes so the electric current flowing in one direction predominates. At low system voltage a filtrate of one polarity predominates only a little but there is always usable electrical power derived from the source Johnson Nyquest thermal electrical noise. This net electrical filtrate can be aggregated in a group of separate diodes in consistent alignment parallel creating widely scalable electrical power. As the polarity filtered electrical energy is exported, the amount of thermal energy in the group of diodes decreases. This group cooling will draw heat in from the surrounding ambient heat at a rate depending on the filtering rate and thermal resistance between the group and ambient gas, liquid, or solid warmer than absolute zero. There is a lot of ambient heat on our planet, more in equatorial dry desert summer days and less in polar desert winter nights. Refrigeration by the principle that energy is conserved should produce electricity instead of consuming it. Focusing on explaining the electronic behavior of one composition of simple diode, a near flawless crystal of silicon is modified by implanting a small amount of phosphorus on one side from a ohmic contact end to a junction where the additive is suddenly and completely changed to boron with minimal disturbance of the crystal pattern. The crystal then continues to another ohmic contact. A region of high electrical resistance forms at the junction in this type of diode when the phosphorous near the ĵunction donates electrons that are free to move elsewhere while leaving phosphorus ions held in the crystal while the boron donates a hole which is similalarly free to move. The two types of mobile charges mutually clear each other away near the junction leaving little electrical conductivity. An equlibrium width of this region is settled between the phosphorus, boron, electrons, and holes. Thermal noise is beyond steady state equlibrium. Thermal transients where mobbile electrons move from the phosphorus added side to the boron added side ride transient extra conductivity so they are filtered into the external circuit. Electrons are units of electric current. They lose their thermal energy of motion and gain electromotive force, another name for voltage, as they transition between the junction and the array electrical tap. Aloha

can anyone help me understand the distinction between “globalization” and “international cooperation”? How can you have all the pros while avoiding all of the cons? Does a library economy do that by default?

On my list of, "Things easily said but impossible to be done." The first thing is, "All power to all people"

The troubling thing is that this system doesn't need to convince everyone, just the people who control everyone's resources because who in their right mind would choose to eat less, have fewer or no children, ignore tradition, eat less healthy, live less healthy, work extended hours, work untik you're 70 years old, lose access to ancestral lands, lose priority in your home country, educate yourself to be more valuable economically vs personal enrichment, reject your fixed culture only to start at the bottom in a fluid one, agree to assume lifelong debt - which means you guarantee to pay someone but you are not guaranteed to get paid, learn a language that is legally manipulated all the time because it's very structure is weak and imperfect (English), etc, all to make wealthy people you'll never meet wealthier for decades of your life before you see any benefit. Globalisation is just European feudalism taken abroad and this system keeps falling and getting reinvented into the same thing with a different name. This is the definition of insanity. The earth is rich and already knows how to feed itself, it doesn't need to be told how to do this from people who seem to fail at it so badly they need everyone to be worse at it instead of just following our lead. For starters, there would be fewer landfills and no toxic wastes to worry about, that never gets talked about anymore

I lean trot, but damn you're putting up a lot of good, useful content.

While i agree somewhat many countries are dependent on fertilizer import to survive if you cut that off mass starvation follows

Who chooses the art pieces to put in each part of the video? They are so beautiful and in theme