tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33242772.post1946246397840898234..comments2023-03-26T09:43:20.249+02:00Comments on Teléfonos que no suenan: Global CitizenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33242772.post-88228514414442316512013-01-15T01:09:35.084+01:002013-01-15T01:09:35.084+01:00The thought about global citizenship had occured t...The thought about global citizenship had occured to me, if not in such a simplified manner (*shoulder self-pat). The Anderson/Barth range/scale of thought is probably a good place to start but I think, however, that without their input people could with relative ease reach the conclusion that the sense of coherence between the peoples of our fair and polluted planet, would be rather thin.<br /><br />There is a point, though, that I often find is missing in talks of these kinds of matters, and that concerns the amount of resources (monetary or otherwise natural) that is spent/wasted on upholding these aforementioned arbitrary boundaries, whether they be the EU's trade tariffs or China's mobile 'slave colonies'. It often seems to me that whoever makes decisions of this caliber, would rather spent their money on upholding profitless structures than invest broadly - as in, beyond their own borders (national as commercial or imaginary). Which I think are messed up priorities, though, one should think that the argument to save expenses by lessening waste would land rather softly in the blood-pumping machinery that conservatives call their hearts.<br />With thoughts like these, one could easily suspect oneself of pseudo-liberal tendencies but no matter how I twist and turn the concept in my head, I can't help but see positive outcomes of policies that focus on deconstructing these artificial or arbitrary boundaries - albeit with a certainty of many social pitfalls lurking in the background. But in the grandest of perspectives (allowing myself the arrogance of thinking that I have such) it seems to work out for the better. Even, and surprisingly so, when it is utopian to think that politicians or commercial and industrial magnate decision makers would ever dream of looking beyond the scope of their own financial gain or electorate... no, wait, I meant to write 'financial gain' once more.<br />Which, incidentally, is also why it will have to be a grass root sort of movement that is needed to kickstart a revolutionary dance of that particular kind.Benjamin T. Halkiernoreply@blogger.com