PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

Another notable switch in semantics has occured in how we define and appraise “Globalization.”

“Globalization” of twenty years ago is not the same as “globalization” today — ask Klaus Schwab and company. 

It wasn’t that long ago that globalization meant the spread of McDonalds francises, Coke far and wide, and Hollywood adventure flicks poured neatly into every head.  Alongside these kitsch expressions of free commerce was a tacit understanding that freedom, dignity, and prosperity were the wave of the future — something every Jacobin thug could hate thoroughly.  

Back then, globalization meant, to a very large degree, Americanization — to the left, what’s not to hate about that?

But now….the collectivists themselves have heisted the noble globalization goal. They’ve just latched on to its new definitions.

Instead of the spread of Disney and Starbucks, the new global gameplan is “fifteen minute cities,” “sustainable development,” and “Agenda 2030,” mass surveillance, and a global population under the thumb of unelected philosopher kings seeking to design a new world with them in charge.

In irony of ironies, who tacitly approves of this dystopian sci-fi plot?  It’s the old Jacobin commies of yesteryear with a new crop of thoroughly indoctrinated followers — teachers, tech kids, and basement dwelling “____sexuals” whose only real mastery of language is an ever widening vocabulary of pronouns. 

In the topsy-turvy polarity shift of our time, who looks with suspicion and disdain upon the new expressions of globalization?  It’s Joe and Jane worker, middle class families, farmers, “flyover - country” and anyone else now rejecting Bud Light and Target’s transwear. 

Right is right and left is left and never the twain shall meet —  but they just might completely switch places.

Right is right and left continues to be…autocratic and stupid.