I love this image you conjured right at the beginning of this post: "& here’s also, dangling, a stardust ribbon over the deeps… to leap to - to cling to - to climb." That helps me!
I don't know about your assertion about it being time to work for an open global culture though. Hasn't it been time for a long time? It's hard to imagine what that is. I wouldn't want something homogenous, but that's not very creative, and I'm sure you don't mean that we have one culture. So what is meant by this? What would it look like? My mind goes to thoughts of a global set of values that doesn't interfere with differences and different opinions and ideas about life at the same time.
Your right about where this thinking can go wrong! I'm concerned about this too. The imagining has to resolve into something clearer - avoiding the pitfalls. "It's time" - maybe that means for now, time again, time anew, a return of attention to... time for a refreshed look at what global culture might mean or could mean. Of course, "think globally" is nothing new.
There's some taking shape here, as in your last sentence: a set of shared values and yet, part of that... openness. We've been at the mercy of huger, impersonal forces effecting globalism's homogenizing, mechanizing impact (technology, geopolitics, capitalism, imperialism) for centuries, actually, and yet ideas and values also have their effect. With due rigor, facing both the critique of globalism and autocratic regimes wordlwide lately gaining (in practice and theory) on democracy, I hope we can participate in any fleshing out of a better world.
I love this image you conjured right at the beginning of this post: "& here’s also, dangling, a stardust ribbon over the deeps… to leap to - to cling to - to climb." That helps me!
I don't know about your assertion about it being time to work for an open global culture though. Hasn't it been time for a long time? It's hard to imagine what that is. I wouldn't want something homogenous, but that's not very creative, and I'm sure you don't mean that we have one culture. So what is meant by this? What would it look like? My mind goes to thoughts of a global set of values that doesn't interfere with differences and different opinions and ideas about life at the same time.
Your right about where this thinking can go wrong! I'm concerned about this too. The imagining has to resolve into something clearer - avoiding the pitfalls. "It's time" - maybe that means for now, time again, time anew, a return of attention to... time for a refreshed look at what global culture might mean or could mean. Of course, "think globally" is nothing new.
There's some taking shape here, as in your last sentence: a set of shared values and yet, part of that... openness. We've been at the mercy of huger, impersonal forces effecting globalism's homogenizing, mechanizing impact (technology, geopolitics, capitalism, imperialism) for centuries, actually, and yet ideas and values also have their effect. With due rigor, facing both the critique of globalism and autocratic regimes wordlwide lately gaining (in practice and theory) on democracy, I hope we can participate in any fleshing out of a better world.