On Disconnectedness
Chirol has a great post up on the reality of the “disconnected” gap –
The key point is that Gap isn’t just a lack of “Core” properties. It isn’t the opposite, it’s simply a member of another group inside the same network.
He is right, it is a conflict between alternative networks. Think about it with this context:
What we confused for the Unipolar Moment was actually the conversation moving beyond nation states as a result of the lost generation of warfare. What had been placed on the backburner in the utterly nation-state moment we know as the Cold War came roaring to the top of the threat list. The Unipolar Moment never happened, instead white globalization and black globalization began facing off. We did not catch it because we were too busy looking for legacy (nation state) problems.
-Shlok
Sign up for my newsletter.