The Globalization Factor And The Internet; The Timely Catalysts

There has been so much debate on the advantages of globalization and its disadvantages. In this book, I'll not compare the pros and cons of this great phenomenon. Besides, such a comparison only dwarfs and does not solve the cons. I also think it's faulty reasoning to okay something, in absolute terms, because its gains are more than its setbacks. If bad money drives out the good, as one Sir Gresham once put it, then why can't the cons of something drive out it pros? You still loose something at the end of the day, don't you? What should concern us most is “whether we have to carryout that activity” and “for how long” before we get a better alternative.

At his juncture, if you have to know my point-of-view, I am definitely for globalization. And it's not that I haven't lost anything due to it but because eventually everyone can gain. Almost contradictory, isn't it?

Well, look at it as though it were a river flowing in the easiest direction that it can. It doesn't matter if it moves farther from your land or closer. It has to follow some simple logic. Yes, jobs might be taken by China or Asia. But that might mean one needs to re-invent oneself. Everyone has a stake and value on this planet and all one needs to do is look at the signals coming his or her way to re-invent oneself.

The reason why I chose this topic is because I see some disadvantages of globalization that the Supreme Being and probably his alter ego might be hoping to use to nail us. That is if they exist of course. Look at the one gadget so much owned by majority of people on earth. Without taking you into the debate about it, can you imagine if it were really harmful as some scientists have suspected? If it were really so, then with or without our will, are we not creating a new defective gene pool?

If that's not nature at work, then it must be man at work. It's important to distinguish between the two; even though the latter lives in the former and is part and parcel of it. Thinking otherwise will mean man should proceed without any caution; and if the earth is destroyed in the process, then it was nature's plan. We're supposed to be intelligent beings here, you know! Makes me wonder if there are board meetings where our creator resides—if he exists that is! The agenda of their meetings must always just be the same over and over again!

The point I'm trying to raise is that globalization has created such a big and ready market for goods and information. It is so much so, that if one was to produce a product with a residually-harmful attribute and export it, its affects can spread all over the world very fast before we notice and control it. With planes flying daily from continent to continent, this product can spread so fast within just a week. Now consider products whose residual effects are inconclusive and will take long before we find out the truth. Our insatiable appetite for global products and the mad desire for capital gains is partly to blame. These two things can expose an entire global population to harmful products without people ever knowing it. And it's not only products that should concern us. Think diseases too e.g. H1N1, AIDS etc. that are already taking a toll on us. Talk of a folly on wings and you could be close to the mark! If the Supreme Being is really testing us, then he could have just cursed!”

One just needs to read those articles by consumer watch organizations and you will become extremely enlightened on safe consumer products; if not annoyingly paranoid. Sometimes, something that was harmful at one time becomes okay for consumption later. Sometimes it's vice-versa. To compound the problem, many governments rarely interfere with the use of these goods. Some might warn the public. But they generally don't do anything else thereafter; leaving the public to enlighten themselves and make their own decisions. In the end, consumers make poor decisions or don't get the facts right in the first place. Sometimes they get it right but their very own activities tie them down. Meaning they can't do much about it. That's the folly of man and an opportunity through which something can put him in harms way.

Something or somebody could be leading us towards "The Grand Test." Different methods have been used before! Snakes turning into sticks, plagues, floods, hunger etc. So what rules the likes of the internet out?

To read the whole of this chapter and see how I connect this topic with our future, get a copy of “The End.” But most importantly feel free to read about "The Grand Test" and you could just fast foward the arrival of eternal life.

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