The article by Naomi Klein “Don’t Fence Us In” responds to the world’s significant problems concerned with economic and financial instability in the world. The survey is full of arguments and details about the problem of limits or “fences” which surround vital for life domains of peoples’ everyday life. The theme and idea of the article have some approaches as to the current situation in the world grounded on the borders of interests. The theme of fencing the reality is quite logical, but the author sees a controversial framework in allegedly fair and well-organized words and actions among world leaders and influential organizations, such as IMF.
The general outlook on what is happening at the moment within the realities of market-based relationships between people living in a country and an international perspective the author blames every so-called noble suggestion of international financial structures to give loans or to cooperate with countries for the achievement of stability. Here Klein sees no way out, because, in fact, there is no humane attitude to business or trading affairs in the global scope. The problem of perpetual refugee movements in Africa and in the Middle East is the best example of the case. According to the article, the author provides a thought that people are placed in the world of apparent public-interest barriers threatening every time. The process of globalization and decentering of world business is taken into account as one of the major menaces for the mankind of today.
One illustrious idea by the author promotes an explanation of fencing, as a bilateral process: All these fences are connected: the real ones, made of steel and razor wire, are needed to enforce the virtual ones, the ones that put resources and wealth out of the hands of so many (Klein, 2002, p. 147). In this respect, the world of mass media is full of information about strategic intentions of definite countries to provide vetoes toward those ones which seem to be allegedly dangerous. This idea is compared in the article as a fight of black-dressed and white-dressed armies of main players in the world arena, who in turn are seriously inclined to destruct the piecing process in the world. It is also concerned with the anti-free-trade-in-the-world assumption supported by the author. Here the author provides an assertion that under the actions of global organizations there are money- and power-based concerns. Everything in this world seems to go through privatization, even people and whole countries. However, Klein admits that there are some spheres having no impacts from the side of someone’s ownership, namely music, water, ideas, etc. Thereupon, the author hesitates in further development of “liberated spaces” of global financial approach.
Thus, the author blames sin the article for the process of globalization which is progressively elaborating every now and then. It is so due to the current consequences of it for peoples’ spheres of life. Klein remarks regarding this: “The economic process that goes by the benign euphemism “globalization” now reaches into every aspect of life, transforming every activity and natural resource into a measured and owned commodity” (Klein, 2002, p. 146). Such paradoxical evaluation of the real state of affairs in the world the author considers being an impetus for famine, wars, conflicts, and disastrous situations. All in all, Klein is highly intended to call peoples’ awareness of the contemporary international negotiations and their negative effects by this article.
Reference
Klein, N. (2002). ‘Don’t Fence Us In’. Guardian.