Summary:
The human community seems poised on the threshold of a new
era. The old boundaries are dissolving as our “flat world” enables each of us
to fashion a more eclectic identity. Yet this new era is seen as extremely
threatening to some, who feel safe behind their particularistic national,
ethnic, religious and ideological barricades. This is the real struggle in the
post-modern world; not the struggle between national, ethnic, religious and
ideological groups, but between those who will fight for the barricades and
those who struggle to tear them down.
