Globalisation & the Internet (Internment)
-This Blog Inspired By Comment: A Continuation Of Discourse-
Far be it from me to disown the traits of globalisation - for i indeed enjoy globalisation and its ability to bind people. However what i am opposed to and vent arguments against is the form of globalisation known as market globalisation. AKA Economic Globalisation.
This sort of globalisation has had such marvellous affects such as placing a McDonalds and KFC in pert near every country in the world. It allows Shell Petroleum to own a standing army in some African Nations, on the basis that the political atmosphere is dangerous to their American Employees and their product. Economic Globalisation also justifies a global marketplace that within such a framework allows for the creation of EPZ's (economic protection zones) that are reknown for their sweatshop labour, no union, land / production / export tax free havens, and below poverty wages. For example if you were to support an African child on the "Dollar A Day" donation (AUS Dollar), you would be paying that person more than large companies (such as Nike, Reebok) pay individual employees per a working day within EPZ's. And remember that most of these companies are dealing with the US dollar!
Now i dont ever like telling people what should and shouldnt happen - for the most part i think that is pretty obvious and people just ignore it. I prefer to compare and contrast what is and what could be. This is usually the most effective way of changing people's perspective. As Lenin has said (in russian of course - probably also german) "Only when you show the people what they could have do they begin to achieve it".
The internet has the potential to be a new public space - something untouchable by private hands, thus leaving all direction to the people who use it, allowing everyone to benefit from this global discourse. It is a mindspace where laws of censorship can become non-existent and every voice may have an equal standpoint. This is what the erasure of identity allows for.