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One of its major influences has been the homogenization of the world through standardization for profit. Eventually, we’ll have nothing to spend our money on but look-alike, off the assembly line, standardized products, which is very good for some things but not at all good for personalized, unique, custom-made, objects—except for the very rich who can pay exorbitant prices for the works of specialized artists who do the design and then hire workers to complete the project.

Why bother traveling to other countries to learn about their cultures, food, way of life, values, customs, etc., when so much of it will be the same as what we already have right here. Of course, they will retain their old landmark architecture because they are big money draws. Major cities will have their own flavor just as Tokyo is not Times Square, but they all have the same root system, which is artifice, sometimes made to imitate authenticity, for the purpose of making money.

I’ve been to estate sales and purchased beautifully crafted vases, paintings, trunks, etc., all made in China from a time when true artisans and craftsmen made these things with their own hands. By contrast, my husband’s company had branches in China and whenever he went there on business, the government (businesses there are a hybrid of privitization and government ownership) would present him with “gifts” that were such cheap and poorly made constructs of the originals that it almost seemed like they were meaning to insult us. But, I think they were, in actuality, complimenting us by saying, “See America? We are learning how to mass produce just like you, our role model for international trade.”

About the only reason to travel to other countries for pleasure is to experience their weather patterns and unfamiliar terrain and topography. Of course, the corporatization of the world is still in its infancy and you can still find pockets of the true country you seek if you are adverturesome and ask around to the right people. Italy, for some reason, seems to be *almost* impervious to the allure of the Big Money chain economy and you can still have a true Foreign Country Experience there. Let’s hope it stays that way.

Ironically the American South has been deprecated, mocked, and effectively disowned by the rest of the country, and yet—it’s the most true to its roots and the least overtaken and exploited by Big Business than the rest of the country. Even the American heartland with its “amber waves of grain” is being encroached upon by agribusiness, and effectively taking—or will take—the “heart” out of heartland.

Unless and until people shake off their infatuation with the intrinsically almost worthless pieces of sickly, greenish-gray linen and paper that we call money, and decide to make their labors for love and self-expression come first, THEN money as a distant second, there will soon be no turning back the clock; and money will become pretty useless once we find there’s nothing of much real value that we can buy with it anymore.