Thomas Friedman, of course, believes that all uprising bourgeoisie, everywhere, not just Egypt, deserve, as of human right, 'a seat at the table' of a laissez faire cornucopia and of global 'democratic' decision making.
Great utopian ideal.
Unfortunately, see last post:
'It is, also, an increasingly, Hobbesian, Leibnizian atomistic individualism, dog eat dog situation, everywhere.'
See also, eg:
"...(because our security problems do not arise from a competition among the great powers, but rather out of the seething underclass, domestically and in the Third World, that has been seduced by the cult of consumption at a time when the future dictated by its demographics moves this class ever farther from realizing its fantasies)..."
Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles, p. 258.
Unfortunately, a great unacknowledged dimension of our security problems do in fact involve competition among the great powers.
Re 'seduced by the cult of consumption', see also term search: the Casanova hand, lazy fair, cartoon, etc.
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