Why Globalism Fails: The Collapse of Idealism Without Cultural Intelligence When Diversity Becomes Dysfunction, and Philosophy Gets Replaced by Sentiment
■ The Broken Promise of Globalism Globalism promised a better world. It spoke of a planet without borders, where diversity thrives, and cooperation transcends nationality, race, and culture. Economies would integrate. Values would converge. Peace, understanding, and innovation would flourish in a unified global society. But what we got instead was inequality, social friction, identity conflict, rising nationalism, and the slow erosion of public trust. So what went wrong? The failure of modern globalism is not due to economics or logistics. It stems from a critical lack of cultural intelligence — the philosophical and behavioral readiness of civilizations to participate in an interdependent world. 1. Globalism Is Built on an Unspoken Premise: Shared Civilizational Maturity Globalism isn’t just a policy—it’s a cultural operating system. And like any operating system, it assumes a baseline compatibility among its users. That compatibility was never questioned. But it should h...