Submitted by Durango Joe on
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Globalization is much more than a worldwide integration of business, trade, and information technologies between governments and corporations. It is a systematic expansion of power, by all means including employing the police force and the military industrial complex to oppress local activist fighting big government and corporate intrusions on their land.
Globalization gives power to a relatively few individuals and corporations that own, control and extract local natural resources while destroying the local culture. It replaces the richness of a unique culture with a uniform mindless consumer society that looses the meaningful distinctions that contribute to each individual and their local community`s identity.
Globalization is transforming the whole world into one conditioned, prepackaged experience.
The ego agenda is self-serving and limited to ensuring safety, security and comfort in the interest of self-preservation, but who is this self?
What is ego?
Ego is your inherited animal nature. It develops a sense of self by first identifying with the body and then with the mind. Your ego is instinctively and tenaciously selfish, greedy, territorial, aggressive, competitive, paranoid (obsessively anxious, suspicious, full of mistrust), and insecure…mm…this sounds a lot like the behavior of successful corporations. These character traits are valuable; they make it possible to endure being born a helpless and vulnerable creature in a hostile environment. Being selfish is not an option; it is a necessary stage of development where survival skills are learned and mastered.
Following this stage there is a natural leap in developing your individuality in a way that includes caring for others. This is possible when social and economic conditions are favorable. It consists in evolving your unconscious ego into an aware-ego. This development is the birth of the human Being. An individual that is unique AND connected to others, and is capable and inspired to develop and mature even more...globalization is actively preventing this development by brainwashing your ego with corporate for profit selfish values.
The human being is capable of Self Awareness and self-reflection. Indeed if we do develop our cognitive, moral and ethical intelligence we become capable to think about thinking and make conscious and well informed decisions. For instance to not harm ourselves by polluting our environment in the process of extracting resources for industry, or consuming products that are toxic to our health, like drinking coca cola, eating genetically modified food, and growing the same crops year after year with noxious pesticides.
The natural sequence of ego development
When development and maturing continue our circle of concern grows and expands to include others, in the following order:
- Egocentric level: your only concern is you. You are un-aware of the needs of others and the consequences of your behavior.
- Ethnocentric Level: only you and your group are important to you.
- World centric Level: you genuinely extend the same care to all humans regardless of gender, race, or religion.
- Cosmo centric includes genuine care for ecology and the environment, which are experienced as one living organism.
This internal development changes the core of what a human being is capable to achieve: to transform her identity from a person to a presence of being. The presence of your being is not subject to your body and mind, it commands the body and mind into a state of unified harmony, not thru force and deceit, as the unconscious ego does, but by its acquired virtues: Loving kindness, compassion, justice grounded in truth and universal principles of respect for individual freedom and sovereignty, your presence express your uniqueness without imposing your values on anyone.
How you participate in globalization
Do you buy things you don`t need? Do you prefer buying cheaper products that are made far away? Do you consume processed foods made by corporations daily? You know like fast food such as McDonalds, or global food chains such as Pizza hut, and Star bucks? Are you a slave to the global banking system and major credit cards by living beyond your financial means? Do you go to a far away destination on vacation and continue eating and behaving as you do in your own home? Is you opinion about world events shaped by news media run by governments and corporations? Do you think activist are a pain in your ass? Does it make you happy to be entertained and distracted from the issues that require you to sacrifice your consumer life style for the sake of the not yet born who wont have a clean healthy environment to live in? Do you justify imposing your values on others despite it being harmful to them? Are you happy being ignorant of the political and financial crisis in the third world? Is it OK with you that women are exploited and treated as lesser than men? If you are still reading, would you like me to stop giving you examples of how you really are not aware of the consequences of how you live your life?
Osiris Montenegro