Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Human Species, Globalization, Planetization

Since 'globalization' commonly connotes a process associated with Capitalism, a less encumbered term to characterize the millennia-long, and ongoing, achievement of circumambience of the Earth by the human species is 'Planetization'.  Indeed, insofar as the basic unit of Capitalism is either an individual human or a nation, 'globalization' is less appropriate for an essentially species process, than is Socialism.  Now, undetermined to date is whether or not the Will to Planetize is the Will to Power.  For, while the latter commonly signifies control, the former can be satisfied by the achievement of a presence that is integrated into the planetary ecosystem, and which of the two constitutes the terrestrial status of the species has yet to be settled.  The heretofore resistance of American Capitalism to Ecological goals is another reason to distinguish 'globalization' and 'Planetization'.

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