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Os Guinness: Globalization and Its Human Challenges

Socrates in the City

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The Blind Spots of Globalization

In the West we see market capitalism say in Democracy going hand in hand, but as they hit many other parts of the world, they are unequal partners at best. There are huge contradictions as globalization reaches many people at the grassroots level and is simply not true that the rising tide is raising all boats. The third blind spot is the worst. What's called human waste or wasted humans. 30 million human beings in our refugee camps. No state. No identity. No work. Nothing but their bare naked existence.

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