I heard my mentor and friend Peter Block today talk about globalism. His take on it is that globalism is code for new forms of colonialism.
In colonialism, one culture assumes the power of superiority over another. In this sense, it is the scaling of one culture at the cost of another’s extinction. Worse, it is the elimination of local economies so that non-local economies can take over.
Is it possible that “thinking global” can allow space for authentically “acting local?” and if so, what does that mean? If thinking global does not mean mean acting global, what about a global sensibility infuses and inspires us to act locally in new ways that serves both our local and other locals?
