The End of the World Is Flat

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The metaphor was thin enough to recognize most of the groups and people being lampooned, even for an Italian reader like me. Don’t worry, these hallucinogenic compounds aren’t provided by evil “Big Pharma”; they’re actually secreted by the shape-shifting lizards that rule society. Why do you think lizards are in charge in the first place? They provide the secretions that keep the population in line, believing in things like the Earth is round and buildings exist. The few times people have actually tried to make a tall building like the World Trade Centre, it is destroyed by the government. This was the perfect 'light' relief read that I needed in this crazy world we live in right now! Although it has now made me even more determined never to believe anything I read on the internet as it shows how easy it can be to peddle lies and misinform the public to suit your own needs!! Trust nobody!!! It's possible to turn this round completely. Whereas the story is aimed at portraying gender-critical people sympathetically and alleges in a plausibly deniable way that there is a major source of funding from an extremely wealthy donor which encouraged mission creep in a pressure group whose job was effectively complete, it's equally possible to read this against the grain and see it as a parable regarding how the gender-critical movement could have proceeded in the same way. Without further knowledge, it's not possible to tell which version is closer to reality.

Some do believe it's a disk, but others believe that, yes, there's Arctic circle in the middle and there's the land masses around it. And then on Antarctica is the ice around the edge, but instead of it being a discreet disc, some people believe, in fact Antarctica just goes on forever in all directions. And so they believe that the earth is actually an infinite plane in all directions. That bisect reality, which is a really lovely idea. Peter Begley (2006). "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century". Accessed November 6, 2006. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is a book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title suggests the world has a more level playing field for commerce in which most competitors, except for labor, have an equal opportunity. He suggests that countries, companies and individuals need to remain competitive in a global market. Historical and geographic divisions are, according to the author, less important. [ citation needed] When it comes to writing about organisational capture and the abuses of social media, Simon Edge delivers razor-sharp entertainment. The story opens with Columbus. The story we were taught at school. Yet towards the end of the novel we start to learn the relevance of these passages within the story. Although this connection between the main story of the novel and the Columbus passages isn’t explicitly made, it is subtly suggested towards the end of the book. For those that still didn’t get it, Edge makes it crystal clear in his afterword!In his book The World Is Flat, Friedman recounts a journey to Bangalore, India, when he realized that globalization has changed core economic concepts. [3] In his opinion, this flattening is a product of the convergence of the personal computer with fiber optic microcable and the rise of work flow software. Friedman termed the period Globalization 3.0, thereby differentiating it from the previous, Globalization 1.0, during which countries and governments were the main protagonists, and Globalization 2.0, during which multinational companies led the way in driving global integration. I was going to write, “it’s an enjoyable read,” but it’s not really. This is why I am giving it four stars not five. The novel is a satire on the current culture war around gender, and my fear is that there will be four camps on that issue, only some of whom will get as much out of the book as has undoubtedly been put in. Uh, this is so fascinating. Um, and you're obviously a tremendous talker. So why don't you, why don't you promote your podcast. And it was quite a schism really. And so they had the, the flat earth society at the time, it was largely a forum where they would bring forth their proofs of one version of this theory or another. And I also think there's another schism going on in the movement at the time, which is between one side, which are people who genuinely really believed the world was flat. And the other side, which absolutely did not believe it, but enjoy the intellectual pursuit of arguing a position they need to be false. And so they would find quite esoteric and off the wall proofs that most people wouldn't think of. And so when I first came across it in 2013 there were people waiting into these arguments who believed the world was round but had never thought about it before, but just assumed in a sort quite an arrogant way that they must know better than anybody who's ever thought about it and come to a different conclusion.

In his previous book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Friedman argued that no two nations with a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war with one another; this was known as the Golden Arches theory. Later, Friedman upgraded that theory into the "Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention" by saying that people or nations do not just want to have a better standard of living as symbolized by a McDonald's franchise in their downtown but also want to have that lump of the labor sector that is created by globalization. That is, developing nations do not want to risk the trust of the multinational companies that venture into their markets and include them in the global supply chain. They were winning those arguments with people who were coming in and arrogantly assuming that they could answer everything. And in winning those arguments, they were really converting even more people who really believed it. And so you had this kind of effect where it was sort of spiral out of control a little bit, but I think it wasn't, it wasn't viral in the way that in 2013 as a in the way that it was in 2016 and 2017 and I think part of that is because that esoteric off the wall version of proofs can be quite complicated to get your head around. So for example, if you have the disk version, the world and the infinite plane version, both models suffer from an inability to explain gravity. You don't have a spherical mass, you don't have a central mass, you don't have a central point pulling it all to one point. MM: So it will go on in North, South, East, West, just go on forever and there is the above and the below, but there's no way of getting from the top to the bottom because it's just infinity of all ice in all directions forever. So there's no way of getting below the earth. And so this was a, when I first came across the flat earth moving in 2013 this was quite a vociferous debate that was going on.Thomas Friedman also warns that the Dell theory should not be interpreted as a guarantee that nations that are deeply involved in global supply chains will not go to war with each other. It means, rather, that the governments of those nations and their citizens will have very heavy economic costs to consider as they contemplate the possibility of war. Such costs include long-term loss of the country's profitable participation in the global supply chain. I was always going to read this book after hearing the author interviewed on Coleman. It is a pretty inspired idea, though I heard many people comparing gender theory to flat-earthism even 5 years ago. I guess I am annoyed that I did not write this book! Mel got richly rewarded for her charity work and to hand over the reigns to the new charges, but it soon starts to play on her mind that all she had worked for over the years is being derided so she starts to put things in motion to get the truth out there about the new aims of her once respected charity.

Simon Edge says this is “a story about distortion to suit a narrative.“ His story could not be more timely or gripping. Pankaj Ghemawat (March/April 2007). "Why the World Isn't Flat" Foreignpolicy.com. (Subscription). Accessed April 3, 2008. The third camp consists of those who are defending women’s rights against what they see as a destructive wave of trans ideology, erasing women’s rights to define themselves as adult human females. Those in this camp might enjoy the book, but in a very dark way; it was written about a year ago, & events have moved on such that many would see reality as having skipped beyond parody. They will also envy the situation of the realists in the book, who have a central enemy who is one individual & whose motive is simple & fixable. You see, he attempts to equate flat-earthers with people who believe that transgender people not only exist but are also worthy of respect. But it is the author who is the flat-earther, railing against reality. Collapse of the Berlin Wall– 11/9/89: Friedman called the flattener "When the walls came down, and the windows came up". The event not only symbolized the end of the Cold War but also allowed people from the other side of the wall to join the economic mainstream. "11/9/89" is a discussion about the Berlin Wall's coming down, the "fall" of communism, and the impact that Windows-powered PCs (personal computers) had on the ability of individuals to create their own content and connect to one another. At that point, the basic platform for the revolution to follow was created: the IBM PC, Windows, a graphical interface for word processing, dial-up modems, a standardized tool for communication, and a global phone network.Friedman believes that to fight the quiet crisis of a flattening world, the US workforce should keep updating its work skills. Making the workforce more adaptable, Friedman argues, will keep it more employable. He also suggests that the government make it easier for people to switch jobs by making retirement benefits and health insurance less dependent on one's employer and by providing insurance that would partly cover a possible drop in income when changing jobs. Friedman also believes there should be more inspiration for youth to become scientists, engineers, and mathematicians because of a decrease in the percentage of those professionals who are American. Gray, John (2005). "The World is Round". The New York Review of Books (Trans. Array, Webed.). pp.1–9.