UNASKED QUESTION: IS GLOBALIZATION SINKING?

Can globalization go bust like those giant companies and banks?
Can the kind of globalization where the successful go into excesses of greed and celebrations - ignoring the hundreds of millions who have nothing - last?
The answer is obvious.
Surely, economics needs heart to sustain globalization.
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PRETENTIOUSNESS AND FAKERY - INDIAN STYLE

In 'rising' India pretentiousness and fakery form the great divide between those who have something and those who have little or nothing .

Pretentiousness escalates up several levels.
The lowest involves flaunting mobiles, T-shirts and jeans...and, yes, hanging out in new cafes, sipping expensive coffees with names unheard of here ten years ago.
Add a new mobike and it's owner is ready to travel to the next level.
A shiny new car - the bigger the better. The owner's strut changes. He leans back - and, whatever little walking he does after that, he walks like he is lord and master of India.
The next level is attending fashion shows and going for holidays abroad. And the biggest fun for this layer of society is coming back and describing all the wonders they have experienced to listeners who have never even visited Delhi.
The next level is more exclusive. Big businesses. Success makes them tipsy. They step out to acquire foreign companies and compete with the giants of the world - with no thought of doing anything for the millions in India who are unsure of their next meal. These big businesses totally miss the point that the poverty level in India is 365 dollars a year, whereas in the U.S. it is 22,000 dollars.
Perhaps, to this height of bliss and pretentiousness, we can add Bollywood movies. They have reached a delirious state where it is virually impossible for an Indian boy and girl to meet and fall in love anywhere in India. They can meet only in the Swiss Alps, in Central Park, New York....etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! There's no limit to fooling oneself.
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