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We are all one. One people. One world. With one idea: to get rich. And
in this new flat Earth, we can all get rich, too. Now, the entire world
can compete, share technology, share information, and share
opportunities. It is as if the world had been flattened into a kind of
United States of Earth, where people in Mississippi can live as well as
those in New Hampshire – competing for the same jobs, trading,
cooperating, schlepping their way toward a New World Order that is
better for everyone.
Globalization takes the wrinkles and creases out of the planet. You can
now eat the same Chinese food in Newport News as in New Delhi. You can
buy the same clothes in Toronto as in Quangzshou. You can live in the
same apartment, designed by the same architect, and built of the same
materials in Buenos Aires as in Belfast. And of course, you can watch
CNN everywhere.
The only thing threatening this brave, new ironed-out world, according
to Friedman, is that some people don't want to go along with it:
backward-looking losers who think religion is more important than
material progress, insurgents who defy the imperial authority and
protectionists who want to push a stick into the wheels of history. If
those were the only threats, Friedman may have a decent point, but
Friedman is like a geologist who has his head stuck in the clouds: Rain,
wind, sun, storm...all of it seems to wash down and wear down the
surface of the Earth, he notices astutely. Ah ha, he concludes, the
mountains will keep on eroding. Pretty soon, the whole world will be as
flat as Kansas.
Of course, if he had any imagination, curiosity or even remembered to
look down at the ground under his feet, he would have wondered how...
cont'd....
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