friedman (WAS: internet & social control)

[MalignD at aol.com]

> <<... he still seems to write of globalization as not only an overwhelming 
> inevitability, but seemingly as an ultimately desirable one ...>>
> 
I read it similarly.   His premise and task is one of description, but it 
seems fairly clear he sees globalization as ascendent and regionalism, tribalism, 
as a finger in the dike.   I don't sense he frets over that.



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