Saturday, August 28, 2004
on the bank of the Ottawa river
...you have to walk over a hundred feet out over small sharp stones before your knees get wet. This is about the most aggressive feature of the area my folks have just moved to. If I complain about anything this week, I'd better have a good reason for it.
BRAVE OLD WORLD
Read a Doug Saunders article in the Globe and Mail about the globalized world of 300AD -- about how we experienced a historical blip in the last two centuries when nation-states formed and isolated themselves from other newly-shaped states. This was, according to the new research Saunders quotes, a departure from the norm of a generally borderless (or at least, poorly-defined borders) world in which migrants and merchandise move about the globe constantly, as a matter of course. We are now returning to that situation. Globalization is, apparently, the norm.
You'd think these guys were funded by the Fraser Institute, but no, they're real historians.
BRAVE OLD WORLD
Read a Doug Saunders article in the Globe and Mail about the globalized world of 300AD -- about how we experienced a historical blip in the last two centuries when nation-states formed and isolated themselves from other newly-shaped states. This was, according to the new research Saunders quotes, a departure from the norm of a generally borderless (or at least, poorly-defined borders) world in which migrants and merchandise move about the globe constantly, as a matter of course. We are now returning to that situation. Globalization is, apparently, the norm.
You'd think these guys were funded by the Fraser Institute, but no, they're real historians.
# posted by trev @ 6:13 p.m. 
