Local or Global – looking for a winning strategy

It’s mostly about winning these days, about understanding and realizing the cutting-edge well before anybody else and placing one’s stakes with whatever promises to yield the most. And this mind-set of the 21^st century, when properly viewed, turns out to be in essence nothing but an extension of that late 19^th century’s capitalist disposition on into our times. Historically interrupted (if at all) only to be temporarily overshadowed by disastrous aberrations into the land of some unlikely madmen’s Utopia, bordering the barbaric and at times even firmly established therein, this latent yet powerful notion that it is a wildlife’s strife we’re born to live, at times to sport and, even better, to win, has never been restricted to targets of the monetary kind alone.

But there can be no mistaking that a lot needs to be tended to in this world of ours, which affords some other line of reasoning, something to put the notoriously imbalanced competition in order, well, that noble word “justice” may come to mind here – and it would be equally naïve as it would be dangerous to read it in a legalistic sense only. No, I hope you're all with me in acknowledging the simple yet uneasy truth that these are in fact two very different things: law and justice. Just bear in mind, the latter personified, why, you end up with someone blind (no offense)! And I think we agree that what is urgently needed, if hard to implement, is a caring eye instead of a merely observing one, what is missing too often is reason coupled with empathy, the voice and helping hand of human compassion, pathetic as it may sound.

Localization, to begin to understand our global technology-enabled interconnectedness not as a means to escape into some fictitious, virtual “second life” of our choosing, but rather to make the best possible use of these modern tools for organizing, setting up and avalanching into this world your own ideas about how to remedy some ill, you locally observe and suffer, this to me seems like a real promising aspect of www-resources.

So, in short:

Which is the winning, the right strategy, I wonder?

“Think global, act local” – well, that's the terrorists' approach, isn't it?

How about inverting the reasoning in this to the following:

“Think local, act global” ?

Could not this be much closer to achieving the change you want to see come about in your every day surroundings than the former one?
But then again, I may be entirely wrong here...

(pic©Antoine de Saint-Exupéry/Le Petit Prince)