Comments on: The World is Flat – a critique http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/03/05/the-world-is-flat-a-critique/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/03/05/the-world-is-flat-a-critique/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Anonymous Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:53:35 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2006/03/05/the-world-is-flat-a-critique/#comment-130 Thomas Friedman in his book The World is Flat interprets things differently from those who did the talk before they walk. Freidman takes the obvious and makes it something else. He does this quite a bit in his writings. After reading some of his writings, there is a further distance from the understanding of what the facts really are. Definitions are changed for no reason at all. There is "communications by rank" ( see http://www.experiencedesignernetwork.com/archives/000636.html ) where he talks in the language of the elite. Globalist Free Traders seem to have a knack for this where cause and effect are reversed and much of traditional understanding of history is blurred. For example, Free Trade is not trade as historically defined. Free Trade is based on moving production from place to place and centered about outsourcing or insourcing jobs based cheaper and cheaper labor. Factories are now portable ready to move again and again for the sake of labor costs. Still, this is compared to the past understanding of trade where products were actually being traded. Today the main commodities being traded are human beings as workers. They are put on a world trading block to compete with each other based on the lowest common denominator down to wage slave and even child labor. High technology has been made a generic process where workers now make less and less. It is foolish to prepare for this industry if the jobs come down to minimum wages as they have in the USA and even less overseas. The PC computer has become a throwaway. As a core of the class room, its value of about $100 to $200 does not grow that much more value in the use of it. The internet is a collage of random information. It is good for finding some information quickly but so far it is dud compared to the manual systems of the past. During the most successful period in our history, the computer was used as just a tool and not as an end in itself. Major corporations grew rapidly when human dynamics were first and the computer was just a secondary device to speed things up. Anyone who has suffered through a long search on the web instead of having someone to call for a quick answer, know this. And of course, today there is the dreaded voice mail where there is an endless road to never never land. For more information, visit http://tapsearch.com/flatworld Exploring the lost worlds in the Flat World of Thomas Friedman fables with Ray Tapajna, editor and artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/ See also : http://tapsearch.com/flipflatworld Flip the Flat World of Friedman over and see what you get. It is not pretty and has more holes than swiss cheese. See also the Real World from the perspective of the streets of USA by those who did the walk for many years prior to doing the talk. The choice is reality or sophisticated confusion led by Globalist Free Traders at Thomas Friedman Thomas Friedman in his book The World is Flat interprets things differently from those who did the talk before they walk. Freidman takes the obvious and makes it something else. He does this quite a bit in his writings. After reading some of his writings, there is a further distance from the understanding of what the facts really are. Definitions are changed for no reason at all. There is “communications by rank” ( see http://www.experiencedesignernetwork.com/archives/000636.html ) where he talks in the language of the elite. Globalist Free Traders seem to have a knack for this where cause and effect are reversed and much of traditional understanding of history is blurred.

For example, Free Trade is not trade as historically defined. Free Trade is based on moving production from place to place and centered about outsourcing or insourcing jobs based cheaper and cheaper labor. Factories are now portable ready to move again and again for the sake of labor costs. Still, this is compared to the past understanding of trade where products were actually being traded. Today the main commodities being traded are human beings as workers. They are put on a world trading block to compete with each other based on the lowest common denominator down to wage slave and even child labor.

High technology has been made a generic process where workers now make less and less. It is foolish to prepare for this industry if the jobs come down to minimum wages as they have in the USA and even less overseas. The PC computer has become a throwaway. As a core of the class room, its value of about $100 to $200 does not grow that much more value in the use of it. The internet is a collage of random information. It is good for finding some information quickly but so far it is dud compared to the manual systems of the past.

During the most successful period in our history, the computer was used as just a tool and not as an end in itself. Major corporations grew rapidly when human dynamics were first and the computer was just a secondary device to speed things up. Anyone who has suffered through a long search on the web instead of having someone to call for a quick answer, know this. And of course, today there is the dreaded voice mail where there is an endless road to never never land.

For more information, visit http://tapsearch.com/flatworld Exploring the lost worlds in the Flat World of Thomas Friedman fables with Ray Tapajna, editor and artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/

See also :

http://tapsearch.com/flipflatworld Flip the Flat World of Friedman over and see what you get. It is not pretty and has more holes than swiss cheese.

See also the Real World from the perspective of the streets of USA by those who did the walk for many years prior to doing the talk. The choice is reality or sophisticated confusion led by Globalist Free Traders at Thomas Friedman

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