The Adventures of Chester and Globalization

Blogger Adventures of Chester has a fascinating essay on how the effects of globalization have been felt in unexpected ways from Japanese pop culture to the rise of networked warriors. His views on the decline of hierarchies in both government and business are well worth considering and have broad implications if true. One might point out, for instance, that of our two major political parties, one is fatally tied to the 19th century idea of top down socialistic command and control both politically and economically. If globalization is really moving us in the direction of flattened hierarchies, as Chester argues, then the political parties which survive will be those which recognize the advantages of networked systems of information and economic exchange that dispense with much of the current framework of bureaucracy that is a remnant of a time when instant information was simply unavailable.