Today, I read an article called Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber. Jihad and McWorld are descriptions of two possible futures of our world. Jihad and McWorld are complete opposites. While Jihad illustrates separation and war, McWorld illustrates connection and uniformity.
Jihad focuses on breaking our world into smaller pieces. In the article, Barber calls it retribalization, which means returning to division. If the future world has tendencies like Jihab, culture, religion, and values would separate the world into segments. Continuous wars would split the world into many different parts. There would be no global community because the local communities would exclude all the other groups of people. However, the people would gain a “vibrant
Jihad focuses on breaking our world into smaller pieces. In the article, Barber calls it retribalization, which means returning to division. If the future world has tendencies like Jihab, culture, religion, and values would separate the world into segments. Continuous wars would split the world into many different parts. There would be no global community because the local communities would exclude all the other groups of people. However, the people would gain a “vibrant