Jihad Vs. Mcworld
In Humanities we read a text about Jihad Vs. McWorld and we did a seminar for it. Jihad Vs.McWorld is artical written by Benjamin R. Barber, what Barber is saying in this text is that the world our world is changing from this many society filled world to this one society that shares this global network that sort of conects everyone. He talks about two possible futures for humanity, one is a retribalization, where tribes form and other tribes form then both tribes are pinned against each other a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly concieved faiths against every kind of independance. The second is being conducted right now as we speak, it is the most likely to be honest, because of our new technology and social systematic forms our nations are basically forming into "One" nation, one global network, one interweb society what ever you want to call it honestly it is happening. There are four imortant pieces to McWorld, one the market imperative, which basically talks about every country shares this global network how every country has access to certain interwebs, NBC news, Facebook, Myspace, Google etc. The second the resource imperative where basically in McWorld every country feels like it needs something so bad that it becomes a very important priority, now the thing that is so important is only important due to the media saying it is. So in reality that one important thing is really not all that important at all. The third piece is the imformation-technology imperative like the market imperative this imperative talks about how people are all relying on the interweb to find out the latest news latest gossip and how the people in society are slowly loosing their ability to connect socially person to person because they found other ways to have a conversation over the internet and not face to face. The fourth piece is the ecological imperative and to be completely honest this text was very hard to read and i really dont understand this imperative so yea. Thank you and click the seminars link to view other seminars. bye