Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many decades later, and we realized that food was engineered to make us fat. And I think that such companies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are doing the same thing with the stuff that we ingest through our brains. They're attempting to addict us, and they're addicting us on the basis of data.
I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that sort of group … - Franklin Foer
I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that sort of group …
- Franklin Foer
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam. - Franklin Foer
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.
Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretica… - Franklin Foer
Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretica…
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums. - Franklin Foer
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they have tremendous a… - Franklin Foer
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they have tremendous a…
The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they … - Franklin Foer
The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they …
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve … - Franklin Foer
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve …
I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultima… - Franklin Foer
I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultima…
Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. - Franklin Foer
Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.
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