Tuesday, July 16, 2013
RE DELIVERING PIZZAS TO EACH OTHER IN THE GLOBAL CREDENTIAL SOCIETY OF DAVOS
The country that can flood the market, including importantly others' so called national markets, so to speak, with cheap
pizzas can win.
Think of a college diploma as a literal and figurative pizza.
Our credential society, outlined in the book of the same name by Randall Collins, had already, at the time of its writing, tended to have become somewhat globalized.
And, most importantly, it was also highly
credential inflated , even by then.
Furthermore, it was not, by any means, a meritocratic system, as Collins also pointed out quite well, and gave sources.
While it has been perceived here generally as a victimless and costless flourishing of transnational academia, this educational globalization has exacerbated enormous potential problems of loyalty and security for civilizations, countries, agencies and companies, who are awash in foreign nationals performing often outsourced, offshored, sensitive, often IP heavy, tasks.
Why hack a company (or a government agency) when you can have your VP national (or agency Director) on staff;
even better, also have a manufacturing plant in your province.
The global company itself notoriously lacks any sense whatsoever of a national loyalty, see eg Sovereignty At Bay, etc.
The globalized university, notably BU, and others in Boston especially, Harvard, MIT, have developed globalistically in tandem.
Put in other terms and in another context, since the US and others in the liberal international educational and economic order, behaves, administratively, corporately, and educationally, in an un nationalist, globalist, manner, why should not apparent un nationalists, such as Snowden, take this somehow as a warrant for their un nationalist actions? I take it that Snowden is rather an un nationalist? Perhaps I am wrong about that.
pizzas can win.
Think of a college diploma as a literal and figurative pizza.
Our credential society, outlined in the book of the same name by Randall Collins, had already, at the time of its writing, tended to have become somewhat globalized.
And, most importantly, it was also highly
credential inflated , even by then.
Furthermore, it was not, by any means, a meritocratic system, as Collins also pointed out quite well, and gave sources.
While it has been perceived here generally as a victimless and costless flourishing of transnational academia, this educational globalization has exacerbated enormous potential problems of loyalty and security for civilizations, countries, agencies and companies, who are awash in foreign nationals performing often outsourced, offshored, sensitive, often IP heavy, tasks.
Why hack a company (or a government agency) when you can have your VP national (or agency Director) on staff;
even better, also have a manufacturing plant in your province.
The global company itself notoriously lacks any sense whatsoever of a national loyalty, see eg Sovereignty At Bay, etc.
The globalized university, notably BU, and others in Boston especially, Harvard, MIT, have developed globalistically in tandem.
Put in other terms and in another context, since the US and others in the liberal international educational and economic order, behaves, administratively, corporately, and educationally, in an un nationalist, globalist, manner, why should not apparent un nationalists, such as Snowden, take this somehow as a warrant for their un nationalist actions? I take it that Snowden is rather an un nationalist? Perhaps I am wrong about that.
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