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'''''Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World''' is a book by [[Benjamin Barber]], which examines not only the economic, but cultural and religious aspects of [[globalization]]. He proposes one current of "a current narrowly conceived faiths against against every form of interdependence...against modernity itself as well as the future in which modernity issues. The second paints that future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and and mesmerize people everywhere with fast music — [[MTV]], [[Macintosh]] and [[McDonald's]] — pressing together into one homegeneous theme park....caught between Babel and Disneyland, the planet is falling precipitously apart and coming reluctantly together only at the very same moment.<ref name=Barber>{{citation | '''''Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World''''' is a book by [[Benjamin Barber]], which examines not only the economic, but cultural and religious aspects of [[globalization]]. He proposes one current of "a current narrowly conceived faiths against against every form of interdependence...against modernity itself as well as the future in which modernity issues. The second paints that future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and and mesmerize people everywhere with fast music — [[MTV]], [[Macintosh]] and [[McDonald's]] — pressing together into one homegeneous theme park....caught between Babel and Disneyland, the planet is falling precipitously apart and coming reluctantly together only at the very same moment.<ref name=Barber>{{citation | ||
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| title = Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World | | title = Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World | ||
Revision as of 08:21, 2 August 2009
Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World is a book by Benjamin Barber, which examines not only the economic, but cultural and religious aspects of globalization. He proposes one current of "a current narrowly conceived faiths against against every form of interdependence...against modernity itself as well as the future in which modernity issues. The second paints that future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and and mesmerize people everywhere with fast music — MTV, Macintosh and McDonald's — pressing together into one homegeneous theme park....caught between Babel and Disneyland, the planet is falling precipitously apart and coming reluctantly together only at the very same moment.[1]
References
- ↑ Benjamin Barber (1996), Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World, Ballantine, ISBN 034538304, p. 4