Shape of things to come...

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The current crisis in France over a new law introduced by the government making it easy for employers to hire (and fire) workers, in the name of tackling unemployment, has attracted world-wide attention.
John Berger describes the genesis of this problem and what it portends for the developed world (and in a matter of few years for the developing world), in this world of globalisation and 'corporate' thinking: http://www.opendemocracy.net/globali...dozer_3421.jsp
Wall - the arguments put forth to defend such type of thinking, and Bull Dozer - the damage done to democratic and social institutions by such policies is an apt title.
The tragedy is that people in other countries/societies just watch such protests little realizing that it is a matter of time before they themselves are affected. Meanwhile the so-called democracy as it is prevailing (where there is little scope for collective conscience to assert itself) helps the juggernaut of 'corporate' thinking to roll on and influence governments policies and programmes...