One of the fantastic things about Silicon Valley is that it's both the birthplace of technology and it was one of the birthplaces of the counterculture. The Internet and the personal computer were going to be like the communes, where we would all be networked together, and we would be able to achieve this state of global consciousness.
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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