The Third Form of Colonization

The critiques of globalization are coming largely from outside the church, but they are indictments of our colonization by the commodifying power of current economic understanding. Roert caplin captures the emerging future in his description of globalization when he says, we are entering a world in which there is a single white stretched limousine driving through a massive suetto like world that is globalization. This is not to say that good people are shaped by machiavelian strategies or consciously ignore the needs of others. The third form of colonization is expressive individualism. A consumer culture must have autonomous individuals who are disembedded from primary relational accountability and who live in associational groupings. That is what it