Globalization or Nationalism?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Well, globalism has resulted in the rise of demagogues amidst growing anomie and atomization...

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Well, globalism has resulted in the rise of demagogues amidst growing anomie and atomization...

That's like blaming the KKK on Lincoln.

Or George W. Bush for the rise of the Islamic State?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The mismanagement of social conditions results in a reaction, of sorts, from various members of society that are materially or ideologically threatened by such mismanagement. We can see the consequences of that with Tsarism's abject mismanagement of Russia up to 1917. The mismanagement of the post-Cold War order is now seeing some of its most significant pushback. To say that people should simply "deal with it" is to ignore the fact that there are consequences for those in power.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Nationalism is not altogether useless, and globalization is not altogether a positive force, but in terms of a guiding ideology for a country or people striving for more globalization -- fair competition across all borders, easy immigration for those from similar cultures -- is clearly virtually always better.

Why the clarifier? Such has obviously not been the result (we can debate whether or not those from different cultures easily assimilate, but it's obvious that we're drawing cultures from an extensive array of different backgrounds into physical proximity).