Jean Baudrillard's The Violence Of The Global

Jean Baudrillard 's essay, "The Violence of the Global" is a very expansive view on the effects of thought patterns, dogmatisms, and to a lesser extent, arrogance on a worldwide scale. Baudrillard separates three distinct tiers of moral and values. Those tiers are singularities, universalized, and globalized. Baudrillard identifies the spreading of ideologies, morals and values as globalization. In his essay, Baudrillard cryptically defines it as "...the globalization of technologies, the market, tourism, and information". Rather inane to define a term using that very term, but this is an excessively encompassing definition anyway. A much simpler way to view it is as though the earth were shrinking literally (Porter). Everything that human beings are able to share with one another is now being shared faster and more anonymously than ever. And most dangerous probably among these things that one could share are ideologies of hatred and bigotry. But the ability to spread those ideologies at the speed of an electrical pulse through a cable is horrifying.

This rapid transfer causes the universalization of morals and values. This I believe is entirely true, however I do not believe an absolute
Terrorism is described much like a lashing out of the singularity. They are despondent attempts to humiliate the so-called "single-track thinking of the West" by the singularities being oppressed. Baudrillard does make clear the distinction however, that terrorism is the most violent and atrocious of means by which independent thought can be proclaimed. "The Violence of the Global" does not accurately portray Baudrillard 's feelings on terrorism; prior to researching I felt as though Baudrillard was sympathetic to angry, ignorant violence such as terrorism. In 2002, in an interview with Der Speigel, a popular German magazine Baudrillard said this regarding his view on