While promoting international
Integration globalization stifles
personal interaction and fosters
estrangement.
Globalization!
Did you say globalization is international integration?
Interchange of world views?
What else is it that is more costly than money can buy?
Modern transportation and communication systems
have affected the lives of peope in both positive
and negative ways.
Physical mass, including human beings, is transported
on land, by vehicles on wheels, including rails: on water
and in the air: high speed telecommunications that include
the internet, facebook, twitter, google and mediums of
kindred conveyers delivering and receiving mesasges.
One of the the serious results of globalization is its
negative impact on the lives of people, often causing
them to deny or suppress their felt-need to engage in
face-to-face social interaction such as saying hello or
namaste, offering a smile or handshake. Globalization
causees some people in primary or intimate
relationships to use emails or text on cellular phones,
rather than engage in face-to-face conversation and
physically touch the recipient. Telecommunication is
being promoted, and more importanly lived, as the
new normal communcation process.
The conseqences of telecommunication in
particular and globalization in general are, an increase
in stress, drug abuse, both illegal and prescribed,
homicides and suicides. People are increasingly
considered to be numbers, statistics, robots and
served by robots.
Are we to say "be-damned" with globalization?
The truth is globalization is here to stay. The
question is how are we to make globalization
complement and be compatible with localization
that fosters face-to-face social integration?
No, skype want do. Seeing the picture of the
person you are conversing with rather than the
person is not a substitute for being able to hold
hands, tender a kiss and smell the unique aromas
of the person. Or, stroking a newborn baby.
Wise thoughts in this article. However, my mother, now unable to hear except through her teletype phone, and losing her ability to handle her computer in a way that can allow her those many emails… Both reading them and responding… That she has done in the years since had to write handwritten letters, gives her as big a sense of loss as not being able to see me personally but every few years.
I met Jerome on a busy city street in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was forty-five years old. On that particular day, I was out and about, enjoying a much-needed day off from work.
I wanted to purchase a sukiyaki sub. I parked my car in an area of
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