Petr - I agree that economic globalism is, in the strictly political sense, "democratic". The question is, though, is it sane?

I don't think so. You can see the damage mounting all around you, even in your own town, year by year...damage to culture, society, health and environment.

It's entirely possible to democratically convince any population of something that is still self-defeating, blind, and wrong. God knows, it's been done over and over again throughout history, long before the consumer society came along. It's done through propaganda, advertising, and appealing to people's lowest and most primitive instincts (fear, greed, prejudice, and immediate gain). That's how elections are won too...in democracies like the USA and Canada.

Populations are generally disabused of this common propaganda only when it leads to a debacle that makes them completely lose confidence in it. As long as they remain personally comfortable, the majority will support any kind of nonsensical program that's handed down to them from on high by their leaders. It's when that program blows up in their faces that they change their minds.

I believe that until all people get a basically equal start in life in all parts of the world, we will continue to have great injustice, and all the troubles that stem from it. That's why I can't look at a situation from the point of view of just one country. We are either all human...or we're not. If we are all human, then we all would benefit from starting out on an equal playing field.

This requires worldwide peaceful programs and solutions, not military conflicts. It requires a world Bill of Rights, and a world Justice system. When will it come? Probably not in our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth aspiring toward.

- LH