George Soros "On Globalization"
...s a responsibility coming from its hegemonic position towards many other developing and developed countries. After the tragic incidents on September 11, 2001 the people of the United States, according to Soros, “have become more aware than before that what happens in the rest of the world can affect them directly and there are important foreign policy choices to be made.” The United States is the country “without its cooperation no international arrangements are possible” but which can not do everything it wants. So it is important to Soros that in trying to reach a global open society, the international community is going to work together; that the different states react among each other with “imperfect understanding” and are open to a “critical process”, which is the “foundation of an open society.” In my opinion, George Soros is quite wrong when he says that it is in fact possible to create such a global open society. We live in a world much too hostile and competitive as to be able to build a kind of global network based on understanding and mutual helpfulness. In one point, Soros is right: No society can exist without morality, and because of that I think it is impossible to join up the members of the international community to one big society; we just won’t succeed in overcoming our arrogance and spirit of competition towards other nations. What I want to say is that the world’s situation as it is right now is just not the right working atmosphere for building a global open society. People only think of their own position, wealth and success; so many countries are in some kind of war with each other, most of the time these wars a...