Daily Inspiration Quote by David Korten

Korten is naming a mood swing, not a policy memo: the sense that “globalization” has stopped reading like a neutral economic process and started sounding like a power arrangement someone designed. The phrase “huge shift” is deliberately broad, almost journalistic, because the point isn’t to litigate a specific trade deal; it’s to validate a rising public suspicion that the rules of the global economy aren’t accidental. “Global awareness” is the key tell. He’s not just talking about more information, but about a new frame: people connecting the price of goods, the fragility of jobs, the platform they use every day, and the climate outside their window to the same set of boardrooms and supply chains.

The subtext is a rebuke to the old story that globalization is inevitable, technocratic, and therefore beyond politics. By stressing “strong views,” Korten hints at polarization and refusal: a public less willing to outsource its moral judgment to experts, institutions, or market logic. It’s also a quiet repositioning of activism itself. If awareness has “shifted,” then activists aren’t fringe interrupters; they’re interpreters of the moment, translating diffuse resentment into an argument about “power structures.”

Contextually, this fits the post-2008 hangover and the last decade’s cascade of revelations: financial crises that got socialized, corporate consolidation, tax avoidance exposed by leaks, supply-chain shocks, and a digital economy dominated by a few firms. Korten’s intent is to seize that turbulence and insist it has a name: concentrated corporate power, operating globally, with political consequences at home.