posted on March 11, 2010 with 4 notes

Neomedievalism

Foreign Policy Magazine says, “The world is fragmenting, badly. Gird yourself for a new Dark Age.”

Many see the global economic crisis as proof that we live in one world. But as countries stumble to right the wrongs of the corporate masters of the universe, they are driving us right back to a future that looks like nothing more than a new Middle Ages, that centuries-long period of amorphous conflict from the fifth to the 15th century when city-states mattered as much as countries

Mr Lee’s Greater Hong Kong, anyone?

(via Chris Butler)

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    Foreign Policy Magazine says, “The world is fragmenting, badly. Gird yourself for a new Dark Age.”
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