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welcome to the brave new world of globalizing capitalism, now almost 40 years old...where have you been?
you are just noticing?
wake up.
you know, globalization: conditioned by the transnational trade in stock (since the early 1970s) so that the idea of a nationally-specific corporate entity means nothing, has meant nothing; real-time financial flows that have for years been redrawing the political geography of capitalism away from its old-fashioned, outmoded emphasis on nation-states, any illusion of democratic redress, any meaningful requirement for or interest in social stability...you know, globalizing capitalism, which unfolds in a special, separate dimension severed from the social, severed from the political, which is like the weather, which blows this way and that leaving all of us in a position of having-to-adapt.....because how do you complain about the weather? how do you organize to oppose changes in the forces of Nature?
globalization, which is enabled by a neoliberal ideological framework that sees maximization of corporate profits as a necessary good regardless of the social consequences--a bankrupt horrorshow ideology that still somehow twitches on television sets across america, even as corporate sector after corporate sector back away from it as being suicidal for business...but one that has the advantage of depoliticizing the consequences of reorganization and of enabling the holders of capital to extract maximum short term profits that they will no doubt need to reinforce their gated communities and to hire private militias once the neo-feudal order that is the logical consequence of neoliberalism comes into full, fetid blossom...
globalization that is enabled by the development of the internet we communicate across, the computers that we like to pretend free us, the supply chain management technologies, real-time supply chain management, a highly rationalized transportation infrastructure that enables an internationalization of just-in-time systems...the commodity results of which you have been eating, dressing in, driving, listening to, watching for 20 years...
yes, all this has just started.
and clearly the problem is vietnam.
wake up.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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