There aren’t many new ideas in the world.
“Globalization” is hardly a new idea. It has been tried many times before. This is only the most extreme example of globalization in world history.
Suppose you live in a small town in Tennessee. You spend most of your time buying what you need at Wal-Mart. Where does it come from?
Most of the manufactured junk seems to come from China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and so forth. The textiles come from Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras and so on.
The capitalists then beat their chests and brag about the “superior” system they have created. Yeah, but it comes at the tremendous cost: the cost of being dependent upon vaguely hostile foreigners who live far away, the cost of losing the know how to produce things nearby, the extraordinary cost of vulnerability in some kind of crisis.
Again, we have become more dependent upon foreigners for literally everything: not just the manufactured crap, which we could produce here if we wanted, but dependent upon the energy reserves of foreign countries, dependent upon foreigners to finance our debt addled “post-reality” lifestyle, increasingly dependent upon foreigners to come here and prop up the higher sectors of our economy.
Americans sheepishly go to the gas station and fill up with regular unleaded at Citgo. They go to the supermarket to buy food that is shipped in from god knows where. They invest their deposits in banks which does god knows what with them. They go to the Wal-Mart to buy stuff that comes from vast distances.
Let’s see how long it works! Not long, I bet. And when that system unravels, it will produce a very familiar type of chaos.
Very little if anything that we do is confined by our realm of personal experience.
For example, how do you know what the constitutions says? How do you know what, for example, Jefferson thought, and Washington thought, etc.
You probably read a book written by a constitutional expert.
If you do have a copy of the constitution and have read it how, do you know that the copy you have is the correct one, what is the provenance?
Skepticism is healthy, and I understand what you are saying here, but this stop and go is very slow. At some point you have to ask yourself the question, is this the best way of going about and doing things?
Yes, I trust my banker. Yes I trust the grocer and the owner of the gas store not to cheat me, or to make me sick. I make about 10 decisions every day to trust people, because I simply have no choice.