When used in the historical terms with which I prefer to use it, globalization in so many ways sums up the
dominant and encompassing reality (note that I underscore this word) of the collective life of people and nations in our time, so potent and full of issues and questions for or
against human development, so that it presses upon
everyone who wants to make sense of the times in which we live, or who wants to be concerned about «keeping and making life more human».