"increases in technology have led to globalization which has led to dramatic increases in inequity in these countries" ....
hmmmm. maybe because instead of the entire country being poor, globalization has allowed a technological elite to emerge into standards of living on par with the middle classes of a "first world" country? is nationwide poverty somehow better than ecomomic "inequality"? try telling that to telecommuting IT workers in india. it's true globalization has had negative effects on the poorest households in developed nations, but it's also had a positive effect on the rising middle classes of developing nations. globalization isn't a bad thing, and it isn't something that can be "stopped," no matter what activists in Seattle may wish. It simply IS - the dominant economic system governing the entire post-Cold War world. the very music we cherish is sustained by botique/niche capitalism. the technology which allows it to exist is the province of global conglomerates. it was inspired, in part, by the assembly line itself. just because the music is underground doesn't mean it's Marxist. the very idea that you could love techno music and not implicitly embrace or at least reconcile yourself with capitalism is, itself, a product of capitalist consumer lifestyle choice. it's like feminists complaining about the "capitalist patriarchy," when industrial capitalism is what allowed this unprecedented era of gender equity to exist in the first place. take UR as an example. they exist to "fight the programmers" through sonic revolution. but they're actually a business proposition. their music and iconography may explicitly and implicitly critique the homogenizing extremes of global capitalism, but it couldn't exist without that capitalism. to me, theirs is the real path toward keeping culture vibrant and alive in the face of the dominant system of globalization: acceptance of the system and the development of alternative marketplaces. not whinging about "globalization" as if it were something that could be stopped if only we got enough people to sign petitions. brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:15 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: [313] submerge.panel yeah this is a little late but..... i was at the submerge panel saturday morning of demf....it had a very "pro technology" flavor to it...imo that is rather problematic since technology has played a _large_ part in the rising levels of inequality both in the united states (the income of the poorest 20 percent of households has fallen in real terms by about 15 percent in the last 25 years) as well as in developing countries (increases in technology have led to globalization which has led to dramatic increases in inequity in these countries)..i understand that the panelists were not there to speak on such things but all of us have a responsiblity to understand our place in the world back to the music kathleen -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
