Monday, February 23, 2015
Valuing ethnic and national differences more than world markets
One doesn't want to destroy world
trade, but one also doesn't want to destroy the uniqueness and
exclusiveness of separate nations and small states, which world
markets and globalism have in fact done. It's a matter of valuing
differences in cultures and states more than world markets---global
markets usually make a few capitalists very rich and everyone else
less rich, while destroying variety and natural differences, as well
as damaging religion, morality, politics---even science is subsumed.
“For
40 years, U.S. workers have seen factories close, jobs disappear and
company towns become ghost towns, the "creative destruction"
of Joe Schumpeter's felicitous phrase. Only the wholesale destruction
was no accident, it was planned.” (Pat Buchanan). This is why the
protection of tariffs on foreign products is one of the few places
(national defense is another) where government over-site can be good.
What we need is a separation of powers where no section or group in
the world or the nation can gain dominance over the others, which
happens to be what the Founders of the United States had in mind by
separating powers and states.
But
successfully and harmoniously separating nations and states to
protect differences does seem to require civilized people. At least
real human nature is solidly on the side of preferring ones own kind,
as the science of sociobiology has most recently reiterated. But
politics in the West has been captured by
nation-destroying-globalism, so changing this will of course be a
challenge.
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