Comments on: ‘Hot, Flat, And Crowded’ http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/708 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yi http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/708/comment-page-1#comment-4825 Yi Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:53:39 +0000 http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/708#comment-4825 Great! I read about his great work 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree', really stimulating and gripping. It's true that the Lexus stands for material civilization and consumption cultures while the olive tree, 'organic social groups' on behalf of the traditional agricultural world. But through this two-facet lens of the 'western' center what cannot be figured out is the intriguing yet convoluted internal conflicts in globalization, which was then curtailed for "westernized" and 'americanized'. Great! I read about his great work ‘The Lexus and the Olive Tree’, really stimulating and gripping. It’s true that the Lexus stands for material civilization and consumption cultures while the olive tree, ‘organic social groups’ on behalf of the traditional agricultural world. But through this two-facet lens of the ‘western’ center what cannot be figured out is the intriguing yet convoluted internal conflicts in globalization, which was then curtailed for “westernized” and ‘americanized’.

]]> By: Jock Gill http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/708/comment-page-1#comment-4820 Jock Gill Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:44:59 +0000 http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/archives/708#comment-4820 And watch this Dave Letterman rant -- set off by his guest Thom Friedman talking about his new book: http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/09/09/david-letterman-on-global-warming-were-dead-meat/ via: huffingtonpost.com And watch this Dave Letterman rant — set off by his guest Thom Friedman talking about his new book:

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/09/09/david-letterman-on-global-warming-were-dead-meat/

via: huffingtonpost.com

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