Globalisation, a New Model?

Abstract

There are different ways of looking at the experience of reality. In the topic here discussed I wished to emphasise on the difference between the economical and political one (or philosophical to take it at its actual level of understanding). In my reflection I start by asking if it is wise to believe in names. Are we doomed to globalisation? Do we have to share the neo-Darwinian ideal of universal competition? What is future about? That happens to be, also, a philosophical question. Two instances taken from modern life illustrate two different attitudes towards the idea of future. French cafes exhibit a political conception of social life. U.S. campuses wholly computerised, as in Dartmouth College, may lead to difficulties in coping with the demands of society. Is there not an anti-European attitude in the U.S.? May this not shape some of the political choices in Korean politics as the majority of Korean social elite receives its education in America? To this can be added Geo.-political considerations, differences of attitudes between Europe and the U.S.A. or Korea. Could not globalisation be regarded as a new kind of colonialism? The European model of society is quite different from the American one. We should not be confused with our North-American cousins. We hardly share the same conception about life. If the notion of globalisation is reductive, the apparent helps it seems to think the modern world might very easily turn into a major mistake if it leads to ignore cultural differences.