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> Are you meaning economics, mostly? What do you see as the superior
> alternative? Isolationism doesn't work. Where is the middle place? I
> am certainly not if favor of being the world's traffic cop, let alone
> morality judge, jury and enforcer.

Certainly a far more localized and diversified economy is superior in  
terms of resilience and overall stability as far as the lives of the  
'average' person are concerned.  Most 'homesteaders' seem to be drawn  
to an ethic of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, for a number of  
reasons- not least ethical ones and for a desire to create a more  
secure existence for themselves.  Why should not the same ethic apply  
on the scales of community, state, country?  I don't think that is  
isolationist at all- certainly most homesteaders recognize they  
cannot provide absolutely everything for themselves and are also well  
tied into their local community and interested or active in state,  
national and international issues.  Globalism, as a neo-conservative  
project (neo-liberal if you're european), is a program for freeing  
the movement of capital from national and legal bounds so that it can  
more efficiently exploit economic and resource differences that are  
bound by national and legal bounds, as a means of concentrating  
wealth and power.  Globalism implies a universal, when in fact it  
applies only to capital and goods.  Real globalism would allow labor  
to move as freely as capital and goods, and eventually 'things would  
even out' so to speak (which is the promise globalists always make-  
that their program will equalize wealth and standard of living around  
the world).  But that is not really the object of the program- the  
object is to constrain the mobility of labor and allow capital to  
move freely to exploit that constrained labor.  For most people, yes,  
a form of isolationism probably would be better in that it might put  
some of the same constraints on capital that labor exists under...
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