Planetary Grasp, World Wide Web, Cosmopolitics

The thesis that Earth orbits the Sun does not by itself explain the distinction of Day and Night--that requires the additional proposition that the Earth spins on its axis.  Now, the significance of that concept is that it can be characterized as Planetary--in which the Earth as a whole is grasped, i. e. is encompassed.  The concept, initially hypothetical, is eventually empirically confirmed when a human actually orbits the Earth.  So, the development of the World Wide Web is a continuation of Planetarism, consisting in a tightening of the human Grasp of the Earth, an encompassing that is both physical and intellectual.  Accordingly, the transition from Nationalism to Cosmopolitics is already underway, with often violent particularist resistance the growing pains of the transition.