ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a summary of Chapters 1 through 8 in order to act as a standalone overview of the main arguments of the book. With this summary complete, it addresses the final three concerns of our study. The first is the rise of the Global Strongarms, those political and cultural leaders who seek to turn people away from their global commitments and to embrace the complex triad of global fear, nostalgia retreatism, and global aggression. The second is a prognosis about the near and also future outcome of global life, vis-à-vis the numerous global social problems we presently face. The third explores what can be done, which brings us to our study’s conclusion: the besieged triangular conflict, the world-over, between global civil society versus nostalgic retreat and global aggression, which are driven hard by global fear, is a societal manifestation of an evolving psychological drama. In other words, globalization, in all of its complexity, including its global social problems, is a grand-scale window into the interior machinations of the human psyche and its conflicted relationship with others and itself. And so it seems that if we are looking outward to solve the problems of the world and, more specifically, the tripartite problem of retreat-aggression-civility, we are looking the wrong way. The real enemy (and solution) resides within, each of us.
