Conserving in a progressive movement is like trying to tie your shoelaces while running downhill. It didn t seem to bother him that Newt had been booted some time ago. This conclusion is inescapable when you see, as I did, brigades of women in Victorian red dresses and hairy armpits, reading from the Communist Manifesto . Paranoia is essentially the irrational fear that human agencies outside your control have more influence over your destiny than you do. In this light, the protests simultaneously make complete sense and are completely ridiculous.
Globalization carries much to be wary of.
But, at the same time, the forces that are dissolving some old, bulky constructs are liberating individuals in ways unprecedented in human history. Never before have individual, average, human beings had the access to the tools for their own betterment that they do today. Education and technology have democratized opportunity, not eclipsed it. Of course there is something tragic in losing touch with the past, but suffering and poverty are not romantic conditions. They want poor people to stay poor because they are projecting their own denial on those who cannot defend themselves from it.