IP: Globalism, tribalism collide in events

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> "
> http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg040499.htm
>
>  Globalism, tribalism collide in events 
>
>  THE ancient and the modern are colliding everywhere, as tribalism
> confronts globalism, but rarely with such reverberation as in the past week.
>
>  The collision was spawning agony in the Balkans, where today's
> highest-tech weapons have failed against some of humanity's most primeval
> instincts. An ongoing clash was playing out in corporate boardrooms,
> meanwhile, where giant oil and Internet mergers were redrawing the economic
> landscape as surely as the Serbs and NATO were trying to redraw the
> political one.
>
>  No one should equate the horrors in Kosovo and neighboring lands with
> financial deals. But these events are all part of a continuing struggle
> between forces that may never be reconciled: the local vs. the global. "