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| Globalization inevitable, Iran should clear its way |
| 2002-08-24 |
| Leader's consultant in Foreign Affairs Ali-Akbar Velayati said that globalization is inevitable and Iran should clear its way by gaining necessary information on its global dimension. The Former Iranian foreign minister told a group of students of technology that one cannot surrender himself to the effects of globalization process passively. Nope. You've got to work hard to overcome heretical ideas and insidious Western concepts. Like cause and effect. He all the same enumerated the positive consequences of globalization, including the access of the representatives of all nations, groups and civilizations, including the strong and weak to a collection of information highways, cheaper prices of commodities and lower costs of production. Those are the arguments globalists make in favor of globalization. You don't have to look real hard to find the advantages. You have to go through a few mental gynastics and risk dislocating your frontal lobes to deprecate them... Velayati said that so far, the links between the third world and the West in the economic, cultural, political and social fields have been one-sided but today, one can transfer all achievements and findings to the other party thanks to the expansion of communication methods. That's quite true. The danger to Iran and its kindred states lies in the side lobes of global culture: individual freedom and the access to like-minded views on an international level. Authoritarian states protect themselves by controlling information, and that's impossible when information's freely available... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |