THE REAL CASE FOR DEGLOBALIZATION WITH INTERDEPENDENCE, ON ONE'S OWN TERMS

It was 1849. European power at its zenith. French writer Jean-Baptiste wrote, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

- Sanjeev Gupta

Deglobalization, as a term, has gained much currency lately. The mythical era of solidarity and peace has apparently ground to a rude halt. Xanadu has disappeared, we are reliably informed. As if it ever existed. Life imitates art.

The subconscious aim of Life is to find expression, and it is Art that offers forms through which one realizes that inner energy. So it is with influencers and role models. 'We the living' follow that shape and the promise it holds... Toward that ethereal concept of happiness that only exists in dreams.

Today, 2025 is no different to the world in 1925, 1825 or 1725.

A world being promised for long, but deliverance remains elusive.

Wherein large swaths of humanity remain deprived, might is right, the meek is yet to inherit the Earth.

We are now being told to be independent and self-reliant. The great Mahatma Gandhi's battle-cry: Swadeshi, as in 'own country'. To kick the marauding British manufacturing machinery out of their most prized market.

Ask the millions of Africans who always had to fend for themselves while the colonial machinery stomped to its own imperious tune on their culture, production and wealth.

Covid showed us the fallacy (read vaccine shortage) of relying on others.

The death of USAID just confirmed it.