Coronavirus Shutdown: The End of Globalization and Planned Obsolescence – Enter Multipolarity (strategic-culture)
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the twin processes of globalization and planned obsolescence are deficient and moribund. Globalization was predicated on a number of assumptions including the perpetuity of consumerism, and the withering away of national boundaries as transnational corporations so required. What we see instead is not a globalization process, but instead a process of rising multipolarity and a rethinking of consumerism itself.