https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/globalization-shadow-crescent-alexander-maistrovoy/
In May of this year, Audi posted a video on Twitter with the caption “At #EUDiversityMonth #Audi”. It had little to do with advertising the car itself. It was an advertisement for diversity, and of a very specific kind. A woman wearing a black hijab slowly raised the rainbow flag with her both hands. Once again: a Muslim woman in traditional Islamic clothing advertises the LGBT community. Considering how Muslims treat gays, lesbians and transgenders, this is comparable to the Nazis advertising kosher products, and the Stalinists advertising the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nevertheless, this curiosity is a prime example of the direction in which the process of globalization is moving.
The idea of a “global village” with a global economy and cultures that complement and enrich each other has inspired mankind since ancient times. Alexander the Great was the first man who tried to put this idea into practice, having connected East and West. This was followed by countless attempts of a similar nature. From ancient Rome to Thomas More’s Utopia, Rosicrucians and Freemasons, from the Dutch East India Company and the Silk Road to the World Trade Organization, people constantly sought ways to implement this promising and mutually beneficial ideal.
At the beginning of the new millennium, America, with its openness and a strange combination of messianism, enterprise and naivety, became a conductor of the new world order, which was supposed to combine financial expediency, social justice and universal unification. These efforts can hardly be called successful. In 2008, Barack Obama introduced the Global Poverty Act to Senate, known as S2433. The United States, under the UN Millennium Development Goals, pledged to spend 0.7% of its gross national product on helping foreign countries reduce poverty and improve public health. This bill was not enacted.
World structures such as the UN and the WTO are not efficient, either. The influence of Hollywood and American corporations including Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Coca-Cola, Apple and McDonald’s, on social and political processes in the world is very superficial. Humanitarian aid is being plundered ruthlessly.
The situation has changed dramatically in the last decades. Three directions of globalization have formed before our eyes a phenomenon which the Austrian sociologist Manfred Steger defined as market globalism, justice globalism and jihad globalism.
At first glance, there is nothing in common between them. Moreover, they even look irreconcilable with each other. But first impressions are deceiving.
Financial elites have gained unlimited control over the world, subjugating and destroying national economies. Under the pretext of combating global warming, an energy crisis is artificially provoked; the agriculture of entire countries, such as the leading producers of agricultural products, like the Netherlands and Canada, is being destroyed.