Falling off the Edge

Alex Perry, Falling off the Edge.

Falling off the Edge tells the story how globalization does not bring happiness and wellbeing to everyone on this planet.

For Alex Perry it is important that globalization is reported from the ‘frontline’. He finds it strange that most journalists are quite happy to write about India, China and Africa from nice offices in London and New York. This is not the way to do it. Perry argues that Western journalists should get out more and experience how it feel to live somewhere without running water and five star hotels.

“The gulf between East and West is perhaps never more neatly summed up than by their opposing attitudes to rare wildlife. ‘There’s only a few left’ implied a duty to preserve in the West. In Shenzhen’s restaurants, it meant get them while they’re hot.”

“Politics. It’s a natural next step for a gangster.” Brij, a successful gangster in Bombay.

The examples of globalizations impact that Perry uses are familiar to anyone who regularly reads Time, Newsweek and other similar magazines. But it is always good to refresh ones memory.

The book ended in an interesting discussion if war might be good for the world. Or not.