Everything. This issue, #BLM, #MeToo, Proud Boys, etc., it all boils down to one single issue: globalization.

I begin with a paradox – a paradox that lies at the heart of globalization. We all feel, in our daily lives, the presence of global forces. The world is made present to us at every turn, through laptop computers, satellite television, cross-border travel, and cellular phones. These and a hundred like phenomena bring the world to us daily, and impinge on what we do and how we think. But here is the paradox: The more we find our lives determined by global forces and confronted with difference, the more we find ourselves driven inward to affirm our roots in our local communities. The more we become members of a global community, the more we insist on our local identity, and cherish the ties that bind us to smaller groups – a shared language, shared traditions and culture, or a common history. The global world is large and frightening, and offers scant affirmation of who we are as individuals. So it drives us back on ourselves and those about us who share our roots and values.

— Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C. Chief Justice of Canada

We are all conceited in thinking that through economic and cultural globalization everyone will become like us. We think globalization will lead to judiciaries being independent from governments. We think that individual nation-states will make sacrifices for the good of the entire globe for the sake of climate change. Well, we were wrong and now we're half way through this globalization project and it turns out that everyone just wants to do it their way. We want to do our way and, in this case, China wants to do it their way. Everyone wants the benefits but no one is willing to make sacrifices and now we're all turning back in on ourselves and the whole thing is getting more and more fucked up every day.