romulus

Much took place in the postmodern world, we live in the digital age now. Globalization has drastically changed the world. The last few days I've been obsessively reading the New York Times. There is so much happening at the same time. While Saudi Arabia is building several cities simultaneously out of the desert; foreign entities up buying stakes in major American companies from all sectors because we are on sale; and today's drop in stocks worldwide. Anyone who has investments is probably on edge, but looked at in a positive light, the worlds economy is balancing out. In the postmodern world, there were 2 superpowers that dominated the world, we went over this in class. Those superpowers, the United States and The USSR represented extreme opposite economic schools of thought. Economies depended on either one of those powers for survival. With the collapse of the Soviet Union less than 2 decades ago, capitalism raced across the globe. Most economies of the world have been opened up. Some of them not only caught up, but are surpassing us on different levels. What is going to be remembered about the digital age is that this is when the economies of the world joined together.
The explosion of media and language is like more and more people are finally joining the conversation. More voices are being heard, the number of social movements that have taken place during the postmodern time frame seem illogical for it to take that long to happen. With English working as a universal language across the world, and transportation taking us anywhere, with communications reaching almost every corner, live in a world of invisible waves, the world is a crazy place to think about.
Why am I uninterested in politics? I can answer that. It seems that as communication with a person on the other side of the globe is instant, trying to speak directly to those in power is an impossible and tedious task.