<div dir="ltr">the global elite (see the editorial board <g>) on the revolt against the global elite ?<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">The WorldPost</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:highlights@theworldpost.com">highlights@theworldpost.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:01 PM<br>Subject: Year-End Roundup: In 2016, The World Passed The Tipping Point Into A Perilous New Era<br>To: <a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a><br><br><br><u></u>


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<div><div align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial">Year-End Roundup: In 2016, The World Passed The Tipping Point Into A Perilous New Era</span></div><div align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#e6e3e3">A search for identity amid the swell of anonymous forces from globalization to technology drove this year’s anti-elite political upheaval.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align:left"><br></div><div align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:14px">By: Nathan Gardels, Editor-in-chief</span></span></div><div align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#ffffff">Visit the WorldPost at </span></span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7o-fXxki4wvMyy-JoKaWSfz0pLNX38nF6Nwd2_U9SMCgjl92HtTbprBlNaxK4vyBXANVIy81QNnF5_X-1x2qumuMMp3Ez9SeT3bsVZmoA3sl&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px" target="_blank">http://www.theworldpost.com</a> </div></div>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">Economics and technology forged the worldwide convergence we have seen with globalization over recent decades. But as people lose any sense of control over their fate in this process, culture and politics engender the opposite ― a divergent search for shelter in the familiar ways of life that register a dignity of recognition among one’s own kind and constitute identity against the swell of anonymous forces. </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">The determination to “take back control” across the Western democracies among those dispossessed by change was explosively expressed in 2016 in a widespread revolt against the elite custodians of the status quo through Brexit, the Trump victory and the ongoing anti-establishment insurgency in Europe. </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">The “Great Reaction of 2016” may well have been justified because of the decay of democracies captured by organized special interests. Too many were left behind by unresponsive insiders. Yet the populist character of this political awakening threatens more chaos ahead rather than fixing what ails today’s vexed societies.</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Populism appeals to the ‘will of people,’ </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqK3HanwzKbpdZWsFrwd-7xSaRTp63DaUVgUgrQatT7qfQqIrf_oP3Wp_6pWA5dKbET6q6FTL-qkOOddgIdhcBJf7uCCb65Kti3tQUC5zGkg67SAgqNpzJ1v1sctXDpW6hy5w8aoVGxCUGSiK5BGursTepM6-0V8sM1st_nxD-ZKw=&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">Julian Baggini</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> wrote in a piece for us last year, “but is actually profoundly undemocratic. Democracy is about the negotiation of competing interests, the balancing of different values. Populism, in contrast, is a kind of mob rule. Where there is complexity, it offers simple solutions. Instead of seeking common ground, it looks to exaggerate the differences between them and us. The unquestioned righteousness of its own cause and means to its ends leads to the demonization of those it opposes.”</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></span></span></p></div></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span>The Turn Toward Autocracy and Nativism </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12px"> A summer coup attempt in Turkey this year tested President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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<div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">The close cousin of populist politics is the affinity for rule by strongmen who fashion themselves as tribunes of the people. In the wake of the coup attempt in Turkey earlier this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tightened the screws in the place once thought to be the model of democracy with Islamic characteristics. In an interview right after the failed coup, Turkish novelist </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqmkL4vfRM8nFG4YNb7CBvWPcSc2tsfCOc0nnwvxkUihvGSRrOpMiRveWHrRl7m6Mqfh3T2iVJZqf9ARtwbFhRcZih-uYagoCbXB-2SJNvsfgvOJW9RiUVJw_Gi47t-0n265NlHwjbg1cX3lqH-LQkWHINUrQvF8K3tYmJdMFxEEU=&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">Elif Shafak</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> lamented the new course of events:</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">“There was already a rise in illiberal democracy in Turkey. There was already a rise in authoritarianism. The country was already </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGq4vAc6ZQtSRxRmgPjG0bKvvd4dA7tH0JXbag5fQvK2cVAsKS9A8IEB-EyNTEqWVH0kFfLLZhsT7GvqiE5qkmGYC3E0xAK1di7BVj0e27RX7TRE4uHyiPzzstD16ap1l9cH3z_KGphiFNtIXAYu64T6THg2u5jSPSj344iT64T2105yZYbi68AU8WA9XuPGBu-&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">sliding backwards</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> and now this! The ballot box in itself,” she said in words that apply to the West as well, “is not enough to render a system a ‘democracy.’ A true democracy needs separation of powers, rule of law, freedom of speech, women’s rights, LGBT rights, free and diverse media and independent academia. Without all these institutions and values you can only have ‘majoritarianism.’ And majoritarianism is not the same thing as democracy.” </span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">Writing from New Delhi, </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqSiUmvgtpOuL7CSorE1eFoosCBbRXXpzE7jK5rEaV_3X45jbrLi06huFKvFJWicUq8SIkxab8iRvw7Bmx4AgW61t22d6vu2xYXn9QWYh31RNxmncH3X2U3WuHdUzEK-gvoZAff_UT6GtdoFFNZsgQjWy9Z9s97ApkYpXnPA7HRq-822fYQ1X2RQ==&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">Shashi Tharoor</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> placed a similar slide in India toward autocratic rule, intolerance and nationalist assertion in the global context:</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">“The global backlash against the forces that have defined the first decade and a half of the 21st century has taken on a nativist hue everywhere,” he said. “In Europe and America, this has involved racist hostility to immigrants and minorities (whether ethnically or religious defined). In India, too, the ruling party </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqvFs_mYUMtZVL7GBagoig-NMiXWyPnlRYT3E7Nj_NRfC7NlFKkuP14TatVi5ZbUxUZ7f4BLrLhe9ZwRk1ep1wiihgBgwbP60aboHtX25vEsah5mpIxqNntC9qWWF_H0RcraYEtzWRydmrNWSCWKNBo75h8YfpoxIz3Fw1bEZDB0ouvnGVW12eeoDVPsrtJE7Fz5I2cbPTXFM=&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">rose</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> through demonizing Muslims and stigmatizing political and social dissenters. Since such negative messaging requires a positive counterpart, nationalism has filled the breach, as a majoritarian narrative has sought to subsume each country’s diverse political tendencies into an artificial mandated unity masquerading as patriotism.”</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></span></span> </p></div></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial">Rising social media and its disconnect with historically elite intellectual institutions played a significant role in events this year. </span></span><br></div>
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a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. In a WorldPost interview in September that focused mostly on his film “Snowden,” the Hollywood director worried as much about the invasion of privacy by the private sector as by the state.</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Companies like Google profit enormously from </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGq5bbXb36LHqTcQ5ThzsiF1vJXfKpmp2dJxkrrhj8JQHu_Tbl0ttMrdfYy5hHQmm_GoxnBIPH6JoncadConAMHeOCi9yfAi1wH8QiKuUt125hDEGbJzg_nJnKtsE0UZiFl1S7cJ01SIqTcLhh2o7xIfYI8ja0XWglnpILa-NVXrfo=&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">data mining</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> of your personal searches, behavior and habits,” he said. “There is more money in selling that data than in selling a product. It’s surveillance capitalism. It really is a new kind of totalitarianism.”</span></span> </p><p><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></span></span> </p></div></div>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">The temptation to blame refugees for Europe’s woes must take in the broader picture, Pope Francis told our outgoing Vatican correspondent </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqDqX0OmN1dK0g_C6sviUqIKWzHVwMXVPa7dNS9KR3tMu1yeWiU5f2mZoHmwirVCw5ua74WKS8ic7UYlF9DwmiMmCzrV0imRxR0fv8eBSOx9XPgdnpOgTeC5xRn_qgBTbD0p7C3IKR7EZ8J7WFl1gK5qOhg3dKB_i2Vt-tN49q9lWcUkMgeDiEpw==&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">Sébastien Maillard</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">, in an interview. He called on Europe to “rediscover its capacity to integrate” plural cultures. But the Holy Father didn’t mince words about the dynamic he sees behind terrorism and the refugee crisis. “In the face of Islamic terrorism,” he told Maillard, who is also an editor of Le Croix, “it would therefore be better to question ourselves about the way in [which] an overly Western model of democracy has been exported to countries such as Iraq, where a strong government previously existed. Or in Libya, where a tribal structure exists. We cannot advance without taking these cultures into account. As a Libyan said recently, ‘We used to have one Gaddafi, now we have 50.’”</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">When politics divides instead of unites, walls off instead of embraces, spiritual authorities like Pope Francis and artists or musicians like Yo-Yo Ma step into the breach to sustain our humanity. As we </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqk8cvmylkxdBx8UaUVnHGG9cETmbLpJMbgwUhTB94lybs8QkIMxcRIY95woKaZMndfyLg8YDKUDwtFv3aIV0KOryC1CKh3oC2TTS9VoZQuol0I8MHLWHo7YVX2V6EJ5OghSjWN0xBMxKWv1Qi5iCexA50eNsaf2AB&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">wrote</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> in June, highlighting the release of the Silk Road Ensemble documentary, </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqNii_age3V8RsaoXaJYn2nnAkwnhA9X5Vw0p12yrpN_difeIVm3zu9Mes3_lNgwHHo3uaskCqmUCGMaVpOcckyQ87pizOKyyJQfMx0FWKYHFrVWF-HTCIbg==&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">“The Music of Strangers,”</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> the famed cellist is the pope’s spiritual cousin in this cause, sounding the healing chord of fellowship instead of enmity. More than a musician, he, too, is a guiding spirit who rises to the challenge of a world unraveling.</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">“To be able to put oneself in another’s shoes without prejudgment is an essential skill,” Yo-Yo Ma once </span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7o-fXxki4wvMnkWZqI4TnfGRU2uym_GQqwCRjRj3ikBJf7Gs9siR3CAe8bn1q19wZeAbXtYb7xDJ8oE8Cy0FpzlQJiuAi8mFEtDgvrEloSJO64P4CV6L5Ktze60ewzmuawh1aeacfdEihp6cphaMTgd-6xmh9is-tg==&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">told</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial"> The WorldPost. “Empathy comes when you understand something deeply through arts and literature and can thus make unexpected connections. These parallels bring you closer to things that would otherwise seem far away. Empathy is the ultimate quality that acknowledges our identity as members of one human family.”</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">Finally, this year we celebrated Charles Taylor, who was awarded the 2016 Berggruen Prize for ideas that shape the world, as the “</span></span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001aiMFszI3OGG0-QPBUfsUpq-gtC49aXvytAf0fvXovLiU47Pa22kR7qbHImrhwSGqc-2sbulLzrR8EcV40rrFZ5KI5_r8F726kV3TedpUxPRzyblofihL3FrlxLXpz9EixlmHmfPcs20uN32VbGF4k0kPI5YlqnujiJC0ZFRspsaUYIjxW2Sm_WPWpHe4QcGoulNNl65Pru7tO1wEcXOJ8ZYufcLjLMLFmGF372cz2Gg=&c=VzAfc-tRxNDL93s42z9Xt5QDopQ4J5WS27BPRiSs2AAjaTLaFrhuow==&ch=73xhQBFM4lvFHteVTzUzFeb-BS16MqopMM5SSWEW1m1tPsTG-2nuPA==" style="color:#1e88b4;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px" target="_blank">anti-xenophobe philosopher</a><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial">.” In an overview, Berggruen Institute presid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, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Joe Stiglitz</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Larry Summers</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Wu Jianmin</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b><b>George</b> Yeo</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Fareed Zakaria</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Ernesto Zedillo</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Ahmed Zewail</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> and </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Zheng Bijian</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">.</span></p></div><div><p><br><span style="font-family:Arial">From the Europe group, these include: </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Marek Belka</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Tony Blair</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Jacques Delors</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Niall Ferguson</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Anthony Giddens</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Otmar Issing</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Mario Monti</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Robert Mundell</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Peter Sutherland</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> and </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Guy Verhofstadt</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">.</span></p></div></div></div>
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