Best regards at all!
I wish only do a modest reflection on globalism and globalization.
>From the term "global", in this epoch so indispensable to communicate
certain ideas, rise several words whose meaning seems to me still be a
subjective one.
It is well that we see a distinction, first of all, between the two main
terms: globalization and globalism. I think we can use the term
globalization to define something fairly similar to a process of world-wide
colonization. I refer to particular and widespread economic strategies that
aim to draw the greatest immediate gain, often extremely standardizing the
economies and the cultures in the various countries in the world. If inside
this globalization process there are certain and well recognized advantages
(it is well known that through it the wellbeing and the prosperity increase
everywhere in the world), nevertheless there are also terrible negative
aspects (exhaustion of the natural resources, pollution, overpopulation,
great economic and social disparities) that lead us to think be very useful
a procedure of careful analysis and discernment, before to blindly continue
toward this direction. This moment of reflection could just be defined, in
my modest opinion, with the other term: globalism.
Usually we use the term globalism to define something similar to a vision of
the world: to see how the whole is so deeply interconnected that even the
action of few people can influence the life of all the others and of us
ourselves, then.
It is clear in this the connection with a term and a philosophic concept of
fundamental importance in our era, the holism: to consider everything as
part of a whole. But globalism remembers us also the concept of
universalism: to recognize the common origins of all the peoples on the
Earth and to cooperate, as justly as possible, all together in order to
reach global common goals. Globalism then immediately leads us to the
highest respect and attention for all the peoples and for our very planet.
Globalism for example means a good ecology, a widely sustainable from nature
economic growth, the interruption of the overpopulation phenomenon and a
better distribution of tasks, opportunities and gains.
While we can attribute to the term globalization a value of activity, of
active intervention, to the term globalism we can correlate processes of
analisys and reflection. To the first term we can link the figure of the
globalizer, a real colonizer on a planetary scale, a person with great
talents but with few free time to deeply reflect; to the second term we can
link the figure of the globalist, a researcher, a philosopher who has as
object of his thoughts the happy and prosper interaction between the peoples
on the planet and with the very planet. It is not casual that we cannot find
a verb to link to the terms "globalism" and "globalist", just because at
them no action is connected in the material reality. While at the terms
"globalization" and "globalizer" we can easily link the verb: to globalize.
We can however see globalization and globalism like two complementary
tendencies, even mutually indispensable each other. A globalization that
does not attain the visions and the reflections of globalism is destined to
produce, in the long run, more troubles than benefits. Globalists without
globalizers, on the contrary, have knowledge and wisdom without the concrete
abilities of the action.
It is important have well clear in mind the distinction between these two
terms and their respective meanings, as from the good equilibrium of the
energies put in movement by them derives our survival and that of our very
planet.
Many thanks for your kind attention,
Danilo D'Antonio
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