Has the regeneracy arrived?

[Eric the Green]

(01-20-2017, 05:31 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: The believers in Thomas L. Friedman's "Flat World" just refuse to give up their idiotic utopian notions. Stop! Please! Stop poking the hornet's nest! If Trump is not a wake up call for you fools, I don't know what is!!!!!!

I don't go along with Friedman on many points, but I didn't disagree with this author's points. So there must be a difference there. I doubt Leyden would cop to being a devotee of Thomas Friedman.

I think it's that he recognizes the inevitable globalization; noone can deny that. But he also recognizes the massive inequalities that capitalism unhinged has created, and it is this, in the form of corporate cabal control, that is the demon in globalization.

I don't see nations as sacred in the way you might do, and it's hard to see the multi-ethnic USA as so unique as it used to be a beacon for the world for principles of universal rights and democratic-republican governance. But I do recognize the need for borders as checks on globalized reduction of everything to the same low level. Maybe I'm not with Peter Leyden on this, but he didn't specify his views on trade or international relations.

We've had a swipe at Davos posted here, so Leyden's analysis of the misguided attempts of the elites clustered there to deal with inequality and the Trump/Brexit rebellion are interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/busin...share&_r=0

I am not that familiar with Leyden, and not being a techie like him I don't identify with him, but if anyone is up to it, here's his long analysis of his futurism for America from 2012: