I don't think it's that big deal that Obama is reading
The Post American World. True, Zakaria is a 'globalist', but hey, I don't mind
globalism. In fact, I like it, or should I say I like the ideal of it. What I don't like is that closet fascists like the IMF, World Bank, Pilgrims
Society, etc, are the ones promoting it simply because of corporate interests and the need to serve the almighty dollar(/euro/pound/yen/whatever).
Back in the summer I was traveling to Europe and happened to leave the book I was planning on reading on the flight at home, so I picked up
The
Post American World in the airport's lackluster book store. I ended up reading the whole thing on a ferry and train ride from Dublin to London
(some people can't read in cars; I can't read in airplanes. I think it's the nerves), and let me tell you, I was not impressed at all with Mr.
Zakaria's book. The blurb on the back told me something along the lines that he was "one of the great thinkers of the modern age", yet all the book
was one long opinion piece, throwing facts around with infrequent citation (given the time, I think that anybody with opinions on globalization could
have written this book, perhaps better than Zakaria himself). The book also gives the air of being soft on human rights abuses in the name of
financial stability (i.e, China and China's support of military dictatorships in Africa), which disturbed me a little bit. All in all, I was
unimpressed, and frankly, if this is one of the great thinkers of our time, the world stage needs to raise it's philosophical standards a bit.
Now that I right this, maybe I am bothered that Obama is reading it. Not because of some nonsense threat that he is culling some demonic communist
doctrine from it's pages, but because not intellectually stimulating in the very list, and it should not be treated as such. But maybe I'm being a
bit to harsh - after all, in today's corporate driven society, everything is to be watered down for easy mass consumption, right?
On a side note, it's interesting that you mention Zakaria's participation in the Trilateral Commission. You might find this article enlightening,
brought to you by the fine folks over at Project Censored:
Obama's Trilateral Commission Team
Not to offend anyone, but Wormwood is right: America is slipping. Empires rise and fall; it is only natural.
[edit on 18-10-2009 by Someone336]
