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... __if globalization is ruled merely by the laws of the market applied to suit the powerful, the consequences cannot but be negative.__ These are, for example, the absolutizing of the economy, unemployment, the reduction and deterioration of public services, the destruction of the environment and natural resources, the growing distance between rich and poor, unfair competition which puts the poor nations in a situation of ever increasing inferiority. While acknowledging the positive values which come with globalization, the Church considers with concern the negative aspects which follow in its wake.
Ecclesia in America
John Paul II
There were four key components to historical colonialism: the __appropriation of resources;__ the evolution of __highly unequal social and economic relations that secured resource appropriation__ (including slavery and other forms of forced labor as well as unequal trading relations); a __massively unequal global distribution of the benefits of resource appropriation;__ and the __spread of ideologies to make sense of all this__ (for example, the reframing of colonial appropriation as the release of “natural” resources, the government of “inferior” peoples, and the bringing of “civilization” to the world).
The Costs of Connection
Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias
“Attention is the beginning of devotion,” writes the poet Mary Oliver, pointing to the fact that distraction and care are incompatible with each other: you can’t truly love a partner or a child, dedicate yourself to a career or to a cause—or just savor the pleasure of a stroll in the park—except to the extent that you can hold your attention on the object of your devotion to begin with.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
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