Thoughts As another cold winter descends upon New York City and the Holiday Season greets us, it is natural to look back over the past year and consider where we came from and where we are going. Collectively it is clear we are heading towards a more and more globalized society. Americans have greeted this new openness of global culture with a retrocession to a religiously centered president and conservative party, however, nothing these conservatives can do will stop the ushering in of global change. The consequences of globalization are only slowly being realized especially because a large majority of the outlets controlling flow over global networks are major corporations whose goal is to maintain profits, while not disturbing the media or government elite. These outlets pose a major challenge for future progess in creating a global community, but at the same time they also are its biggest potential. What exactly is a global community? Surely the UN doesn't know, I don't think Mr. Bush knows either, however slowly, and profitably, global corporations are the only ones who are able to decipher what it is that binds us and breaks us. While it is clear their profiteering goals are at least partially adverse to the global community that is imagined by some, at least its a beginning, and where we go from there is also still now only imagined.
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