So, TPP is not going to happen.

[WagnerPaiva]

palou said:

WagnerPaiva said:

Sure, to understand fully how evil and harmful globalization is, I refer you to zygmunt bauman  book Globalization the human consequence, which can be read in samples here:

http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9780745674384_sample_412093.pdf

I can also provide you a full pdf and you can fin videos of Bauman himself talking about it.

To understand what it is the globalized world the elite wants, reads THE END OF HISTORY, from Francis Fukuyama.

I will give you the highlights: the ultimate goal is no borders, no sovereignty and an homogenized culture all over the world.

Why is this bad? First, people are different, different foods, habits, creeds, culture, this is a good thing.

Belonging to a place, haveing a language, a nationality, these are all part of what make us human.

The neverending conflicts of Afrika, for example, come from a artificial divide of the continent, destroying the natural cultural tribal borders they had and disrespecting their culture.

What we need is strong nations, with strong sense of culture and understanding that they are not the same as the other nations, but all respecting and living in peace with each other.

A global world aims to a system where a supernational autorithy has power over the nations, and this can easily not have this particular nation best interest in mind.

It is a global empire disguised as a good thing.

George Soros is the main puppeter in this plan, he uses rise and fall of nations to get richer and often manufacter such rises and falls. He finance racial wars (Black Live Matters), gender wars and all the manifestations of the Left all around the world. He also lobbies for the end of all religions and finance groups that work in this objective.

-There are far more financial experts in support of free trade than against. This is because:

-One of the most trivial conclusions of the Keynesian Theory (the basis for modern capitalism; offer and demand, productivity, etc...) is that the productivity of any single combined economic system C including A and B is higher than the sum of its parts; in other words, unifying two economies increases their total production of goods (thus, also how much people have), a direct consequence of market optimization and diversity.

 

The whole «the elites want it» thing sounds to me like a poorly justified conspiration theory (don't take it personnaly; I can be wrong, just my impression.)

What concerns cultural propagation:

That's not a consequence of a free trade agreement. Nonetheless, I personnaly believe that the spread and travel of culture strengthens it. Example: I'm a big fan of classical music (in case your tag means anything, at least that much in common :) I also like to play in my free time, did competitions and everything). Nowadays, the biggest market for classical music, and also a big pool of its talent, (Mitzuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Zubin Mehta, etc...) is in Asia, while the sector has been struggling for decades in the West. I'm grateful that these artists continue to add upon what our ancestors have produced. 

 

Some aspects, domains, have already been globalized. Science, for example. My father is a Mathematician, and German. He works in a University in Canada. His closer colleagues (in research distance) are a russian, an egyptian and a chinese. He is currently collaborating with a Japanese and a Serb working at an american university, a project that they started at a conference in China. 

 

And Mathematics are better for it; the people that work on specific questions are few and spread out arounf the globe, and it just makes sense for them to work together to get results. This is the same for most scientific domains. This has been in application for quite some time now, mostly because a PHD in Science or related domains is pretty much an international passport.

 

That's my point of view, anyway. It's probably fairly restrained, as I grew up in a very academicly centered environnement (thus getting the previously mentionned impression), without much difficulty in life (till now, anyways...). It could fully well be that things look very diffirent elsewhere; but from what I can see, opening borders is a good thing

There has being a endocrination on pushing globalization as a great idea in the last 20 years, your opinion does not surprise me. If you like see the other side of the argument, I encourage you to watch Bauman interviews.