All Connected Now: Life in the first global civilisation by Walter Truett
Anderson, Westview, $27.50, ISBN 0813339375
A COLUMNIST from California surveys globalisation. Don’t fret, he says, it’s
been going on a long time.
But how homogeneous are we? If Walter Truett Anderson were French or
Vietnamese —or Swabian or Pathan—he would see the origin of
nation-states differently. His main sources are newspapers and think-tank
reports—overwhelmingly from one state.
Were he a little more globalised, he might have queried a local journalistic
convention that devotes equal space to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and global warming doubter…
