{"id":1580,"date":"2017-04-24T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:14:00","slug":"arguments-against-globalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/04\/24\/arguments-against-globalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguments Against Globalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading <em>Station Eleven<\/em>, I could not help but think of two movies: <em>Contagion <\/em>and <em>Outbreak<\/em>. Both of these films have a premise similar to that of <em>Station Eleven<\/em>: an outbreak of mysterious disease decimates the world\u2019s population. However, the diseases in <em>Outbreak <\/em>and <em>Contagion<\/em>\u2014Motaba and MEV-1, respectively\u2014do not lead to the failure of technology in the same way that the Georgia Flu of <em>Station Eleven <\/em>does.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Contagion (2011) Official Exclusive 1080p HD Trailer\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4sYSyuuLk5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Outbreak - Trailer\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AgZ5goJibn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Contagion, Outbreak, <\/em>and <em>Station Eleven <\/em>are all examples of a common fear held by today\u2019s society: a pandemic. Whether it be man-made or naturally occurring, today\u2019s society is in a constant fear of biological villains or weapons. This is a theme that I have noticed in many other stories as well. But why are we so afraid of this theme?<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on this question, I thought that the greatest fear found in <em>Contagion, Outbreak, Station Eleven<\/em>, and other stories containing pandemics stems from the globalization of our world. Our world is so connected; we can travel great distances in almost no time at all. The ease with which we can spread around the world is something that we take for granted, as made evident by the Traveling Symphony\u2019s traveling difficulties in <em>Station Eleven<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If we are made to fear the connectivity of the world, we are therefore made to fear the world\u2019s globalization. Are these stories thus arguments against the globalization of the world? To prevent the spreading of disease, should we not be able to travel as easily as we can? Does our globalization need to end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading Station Eleven, I could not help but think of two movies: Contagion and Outbreak. Both of these films have a premise similar to that of Station Eleven: an outbreak of mysterious disease decimates the world\u2019s population. However, the diseases in Outbreak and Contagion\u2014Motaba and MEV-1, respectively\u2014do not lead to the failure of technology &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/04\/24\/arguments-against-globalization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arguments Against Globalization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[208,211,210,209],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-c","tag-contagion","tag-globalization","tag-outbreak","tag-station-eleven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}