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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 future of "Jihad in the name a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against against every form of interdependence...against modernity itself as well as the future in which modernity issues...[a second] future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and mesmerize people everywhere with fast music — [[MTV]], [[Macintosh]] and [[McDonald's]] — pressing together into one homogeneous 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 | |||
| author = [[Benjamin Barber]] | |||
| title = Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World | |||
| publisher = Ballantine | year= 1996 | |||
| isbn = 034538304}}, p. 4</ref> | |||
==References== | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:45, 22 October 2013
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 future of "Jihad in the name a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against against every form of interdependence...against modernity itself as well as the future in which modernity issues...[a second] future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and mesmerize people everywhere with fast music — MTV, Macintosh and McDonald's — pressing together into one homogeneous 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