it is very interesting, isn’t it? This is, in one sense, what gives me pause about things like the Crimea situation where the powers-that-be seem to be moving things backward, in a sense.

Actually, when I think about things in terms of Deleuze’s concept of the Society of Control or Latouche’s writings of Westernization & Degrowth or even Appadurai’s notions on globalization, the trend should be moving toward greater autonomy on the local level. So we would expect to see those who had profited most from Disciplinary society (like the Cold War powers and some monopolies) not appreciating these calls for “glocal” autonomy.