Daily Inspiration Quote by Lakhdar Brahimi

Globalization, in Brahimi's telling, is being dragged down from the penthouse and made to walk the street. The line has the clipped, corrective cadence of a diplomat who has watched an economic doctrine masquerade as fate: for years, "globalization" was sold as a neutral process, a kind of weather system that just happened to reward multinationals and capital flows. By narrowing the old definition to "the multi-nationals and the circulation of money", he exposes how cramped and self-serving that framing was - and how convenient it proved for the winners.

The phrase "People now realize" does quiet work. It's not a manifesto; it's an update in public consciousness, a way of signaling that the consensus is shifting without picking a public fight. Diplomatic language often smuggles critique through understatement, and Brahimi's is a rebuke delivered with a straight face: if ordinary people are only now "realizing" this, someone has been busy keeping the truth off the agenda.

Context matters. Brahimi's career spans decolonization's aftermath, Cold War proxy conflicts, and the post-9/11 era when intervention, development, and security got bundled into one leaky package. From that vantage point, globalization isn't just trade. It's migration, media, weapons, pandemics, climate shocks, and the politics of humiliation - the stuff that crosses borders whether Davos approves or not.

The intent is to widen responsibility. If globalization is everyone's business, then governance, rights, and accountability have to globalize too, not just supply chains.