A Flat World with Deep Fractures

• Main Author: Emil Constantinescu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva 2016-10-01
• Series: Cadmus
• Online Access: http://cadmusjournal.org/article/volume-3/issue-1/flat-world-deep-fractures

The Internet manages to connect different parts of the world, defies geographical distances and gives the impression that our planet is flat, but the Internet is there only for the ones who have the possibility and the ability to use it. Our contemporary flat world has deep transversal fractures which, like in many geological structures, make a direct connection between layers with different characteristics. The elites are moving across information avenues with targets set in the future; at the same time, in many parts of our planet, there are people organizing their lives in pre-modern agrarian cycles. Diversity in ways of living and in social organization is a sign of human freedom, not a sign of error, so, having different alternatives to achieving prosperity and happiness should be good news. Holding dear to a society’s lifestyle should not push for the destruction of societies with different sets of values.