The largest of them are for the most part impervious not only to popular pressure but even to government suasion. They owe no loyalty to any town or even nation. The main reason was that American companies one after the other refused to kick in funds and thus become associated with the United States. They wished to be seen as 'global' instead. And since there is none to take them on and all the powerful international institutions like the World Bank are of their own making, there is none to halt their increasing growth, or their increasing power to impoverish the people and imperil the earth.
Giants really do stalk the world, and most of creation trembles.
The gospel of globalism made up of these essential values bids fair to sanction a corporatist catastrophe in this next century. But it is difficult to see what gospel would be able to proclaim them forcefully enough, effectively enough, quickly enough. Perhaps there is comfort in the knowledge that, in time and probably not too far hence, the earth will recoil from the assault of globalism and in some awful spasm will dispel it and all its work, as a dog shakes off water after a plunge. Whether we will be here afterward, of course, is an open question. Kirkpatrick Sale spends as much time as he can in rural upstate New York.