[CasearianDaoist]

I know that, I worked for Andersen once upon a time. But I mean a Mckinnsey whose home office in in Beijing and whose partners are connected with the Chinese and other Asian elites (being connect to elites is the name of the game for partners in management consulting, more imprtant in fact than being "smart," Mckennsey hired Chelsea Clinton for Pete's sake.) Should China become the leading economy, the Mckinnseys of the West will have a rough go of it - and they will start crying like babes.

And if your "new global economy" just has good jobs for "smart people" then it will untimatley fail both in the historical and moral sense of the word. That is the problem with the cheerleaders for Globalism: Their viewpoint is completely elitist. If the Average IQ is 100 then half of the people that make up socielty are average or less. We cannot all work for Accenture. The common man needs a peice of the pie too;if he does not have the option of buying a decent house, sending his kinds to college should they be worthy and a job with some minimal dignity we will either have a revolution, civil war or a fuedal society. THis country cannot survive without strong working and middle classes, or at least not survive as a country worth living in. It is one thing to live in a developing country - it is quite another to kive in a country that is regressing backwards into third world status - the citzenrty will not go there lightly.

The other thing I object to is you notion that Globaism is inevitable, that is it some sort of force of nature. It is not. It can be undone. It will in fact in the end be undone by war or the passing of the West. Best we face now as a nation while we still have a nation. It is just a matter of national will.

[Cronos]

The other thing I object to is you notion that Globaism is inevitable, that is it some sort of force of nature.

Merging of nations is inevitable. Look at England in the 6th century, a micture of kingdoms: Kent, WEssex, Northumbria etc. Then they merged to form England. Then England conquered Wales and Scotland and Ireland to form the UK.
Even here, the US increased in size considerably in barely a century. We WILL expand to include Canada and Mexico in the next half century and probably all of Central America by the 2080s.