TY - JOUR AU - Fals Borda, Orlando PY - 2000/11/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Peoples? SpaceTimes in Global Processes: The Response of the Local JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - World-Systems Contemporary DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2000.197 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/197 SP - 624-634 AB - The great American sociologist C. Wright Mills noted in 1959 that ?in our time the problems of Western societies are almost inevitably universal problems? (Mills 1959:164-180). He already spoke of ?postmodernity? and pointed his ?nger to one of the foremost characteristics of contemporary globalisation: the tension between Reason and Liberty. According to Mills, this tension caused malaise and a certain indifference that led to the formation of a ?happy robot? in contrast to the Enlightenment model of a creative human being. ER -