Question

Identify the underlying philosophies of globalisation

Answer 1

Explanation:

Philosophical digressions are not required as globalization is an extension of quid pro quo economic trade deals that have existed for millennia going back to the time of the nomadic hunter gatherer economies. Australian tribes on sand islands acquired stone for making spears, boomerangs etc etc by trading with mainland tribes. An economic want is a natural expression of evolving strategies to satisfy biological needs. Non coercive sociopolitical orders are less contaminated with the ideology of the later nationalist and imperialist systems that sought resources by conquest and geopolitical adventures. Nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction have checked the utility of such weapons for expansion of national interests at a practical level but not the monotheist ideologies that ensure their aspirational preservation. In a world where total war is the natural reaction to military aggression, there are no second prizes for aggressors hence the revisionism by western monotheists against free trade as practiced by the non-monotheist Chinese. The West is bound by a monotheist straight-jacket that ensures the death of a thousand cuts because the philosophical talking heads never escape the perspectives of the cults, instead of science, they are trapped in the maze of discordant conventional worldviews. Individuals were not born theists or atheist but bare arsed natural latter day great-apes but that simple reality would never be acknowledged by individuals ensnared by the current Trump cult or by the New Atheists because the reality of deceptive human opportunism being a natural trait opens a Pandora’s box that may kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Maybe perspectives, rather than philosophies, is a more useful way of looking at globalization. Joseph Nye distinguishes between globalization and globalism. Globalism is an organic self-directed process of nations reaching out for mutual protection and trade. Globalization is mostly an externally applied force to combine and control. A modernized colonialism.