The final triumph of the “western” Civilization

The ongoing process started by the industrialized world in almost full autonomy from any of the political decision-making centers in the Countries where the industrial headquarters had their occasional location. The motivations of that process are free from any ideological inspiration and result therefore acceptable in any of the less industrialized Countries disregarding the specific nature of the political regimes ruling them. This is a pragmatic engagement opening to a fast growth of its internal national product any Country that engages in the worldwide process. It’s a highly virtuous process of international relations for the first time in the history of mankind since it will allow the liberal-capitalism to optimize the available resources and the division of labor in the perspective of a globalized industrial economy. The resulting diffused benefits will gradually attract new psychical resources to commit to productive competition and the higher levels of education and awareness enhancing in any Country will compel the ruling regimes to adapt gratifying the growing demand of freedom as needed to ensure an effective competitive level of each Country’s contribute to the world free-market trade. The eternal tool thanks which liberal-democracy has grown in the western world has finally “contaminated” the entire humanity.
The starting moment of this extraordinary worldwide process can be emblematically dated with the “fall of the wall” in Berlin it has extended, though, along the entire twentieth century through the gradual bloody extinction of the old-times Nation States born from the centuries-long dissolution of the previous political order established by the roman empire. But this is matter for historians. The only Country that pretended having a supranational objective “the USSR” was inspired by an illiberal political ideology that, in addition, proved of being absolutely incapable to be economically rewarding both the citizens and the regime’s tasks. USSR were compelled to expand territorially and “protect” their frontier by means of a Wall whose purpose was to avoid its citizens to escape the regime’s standards. The only non-Nation-State existing since 1776 “the USA” has hosted hitherto the closest regime to liberal-democracy. Its frontiers have always had to be protected against “illegal” efforts to become citizen by screening carefully the newcomers and today even by building a “wall” to avoid undesired and massive crowds willing to leave their less liberal-democratic Nation States. These newcomers stream towards higher levels of freedom and individual responsibility and reject the presumed “food stamps” ensured by the welfare state of their national regimes. Cubans take the “risk” of facing the USA free-market offerings (in health care too) rather than enjoying the welfare state of their socialist homeland.
The ongoing process of globalization of the industrial economy is irreversible and has had already the merit to impose the worldwide national regimes to assemble seeking to negotiate an acceptable New Global Order and related institutions and procedures suited to enforce a credible governance upon the worldwide markets from trade of goods and services to flow of financial resources. It’s a very early step towards global liberal-democratic “institutional-container” that will gradually be filled by a steady growth of economic wealth and individual freedom as the industrial cooperation will reward the past huge investments by adequate return on investment. This criterion of international cooperation has nullified any reason for protectionism and will result more effective and fast in its economic growth if the participating Countries will adhere to liberal-democracy. That being the prerequisite to facilitate private enterprising that else is partially “illegal” in the less liberal regimes and can therefore grow within higher burdens and risks. This last concept can indicate the weak points within the ongoing successful globalization process of industrial cooperation.
The process has been started by the main industrial groups whose trading markets span already since years or decades on a worldwide scenario. Companies in charge of energy delivery and of industrial commodities as well as the financial groups and the insurance companies have been acting beyond the strict span of their Country’s legislations since the beginning of dissolution of the Nation States. Their emblem are the “seven sisters” or the “investment banks”. The “multinational” industry sectors from the rural industry sector to manufacture and trading of goods have gradually joined as the industrial interests and size grew to a worldwide dimension. Their emblem have been the steel and aluminum groups, the pharmaceutical ones, the computer and communication ones. These companies own the know how and the solid credit needed to make their decisions promptly operational with negotiations fast and reliable enough to result acceptable to their counterparts in the financial and in the political scenario. Central governments and multinational security managers are easily lobbied upon project financing programs of a size comparable with the gross national product. Their investment creates innovative plants in less industrialized Countries stimulating their internal industries to concur to the production phases by enhancing their skill and know how. This is positive. The few huge plants anyway are located in areas where the professional culture is more advanced; the big towns. Once started this cooperation creates growth of the Country’s economy and the immediate appeal to move from more peripheral areas towards the location of the plants. The local areas lose the more enterprising individuals while the larger towns become quickly overpopulated as compared to the existing concrete occupational opportunities. Both phenomena creates social distress and related political instability. The present institutions in charge of internal governance lose consensus and none of the new political characters has the power and culture enough to replace the fading protagonists who, in turn, will resist their decline by assuming nationalist, protectionist attitudes. The “Country Risk” shall be mastered by acts of the central governments that frequently result politically highly illiberal.
The mentioned process shall be associated by a contemporary one that can integrate the central stimuli to the Country’s national economy by cooperation between smaller industries of a regional size of interests in the developing Countries and selected partners in more industrialized ones to create long term programs of industrial cooperation likely to consolidate the local consensus around the traditional political leaders and their constituencies. These programs could avoid massive internal migrations and would concur enhancing the growth of the Country’s economy in a more balanced and diffused perspective. The main multinational groups could benefit too of these collateral programs of industrial cooperation if they would be selected in applications connected to the main industrial projects. Examples of this can be easily found in the energy industry sector where the main pipelines and extraction/refining plants could cross and be served by local industries and could deliver energy to the peripheral areas thanks to additional local industries. This would create a diffused prerequisite for industrialization of the local economies and the continuity of consensus in the present political constituencies granting therefore higher levels of political stability to the developing Country.
In the industry sectors of extraction and manufacturing of commodities and primary goods the process could also be experienced by a careful selection of the specific type of international cooperation. These types of manufacturing cooperation could in addition receive adequate know how and transfer of professional skills from the most industrial Countries adequate to create additional industrial ventures aside of the main manufacturing agreement. Traditionally in the industrializing Countries people has been moved massively towards the areas selected to host the industrial plant. In order to ensure an adequate social consensus and stability around the industrial processes, entire villages have been designed close to the plants where the workers and their families could enjoy a gratifying social life. This industry sector is defining the industrial urban and architecture design whose traditions date back the first Renaissance and have still today excellent examples to be selected as case-studies for the bi-lateral cooperation today. Olivetti’s Ivrea, Breda’s suburb in Rome, Latina’s rural town in Italy but the “science parks” of Cambridge and the San José “silicon valley” in California or in Seattle are good examples too.

The road is now opened for alike contributions that the urban architects can offer worldwide to the quality of life adding a touch of “western renaissance” to the ongoing global growth of industrial incomes.