Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun. David Brooks
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1984/85 China created a bunch of foreign investment capitalist zones with very low taxes. Everything the republicans ever asked for.
This move by China can be considered a catalyst for the eventually collapse of communism in 1989 and their need to massacre loads of capitalists at Tiananmen Square.
Today's irony of people like Trump and Biden and their war with China is that they aren't at war with china... they are at war with capitalist china. Their problem with China can be completely eliminated by setting up free trade zones with ultra low taxes of their own.
Globalization isn't over because nothing actually changed.
Global culture wars is not really a thing neither.
>People don’t want to blend into a homogeneous global culture; they want to preserve their own kind.
Hence why there's a china town in many cities. There's no need to melt down cultures. There is no culture war of chinese vs american.
Even in the sense of limited USA culture wars that never happened anywhere else in the world. Trump, gamergate, wokeness, whatever. That is over now. This culture war is part of the past. That was the post-millennial generation.
The culture war is over and the homelander generation is now. As the name points out, there will be major polarization and sacrifice. The homelanders will be known for creativity, innovation, and being overly protected. The helicopter parents will be a key factor in forming much of their personality. Conformity will be so thick you will gag. Obviously also the opposite of people who oppose conformity. Those people will produce art that becomes tremendously valuable.
The real big deal... this generation will have a nightmare experience. There will be a world war and/or revolution. It's quite improbable that the revolution will be peaceful.