“Arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.”

The great difference between globalization and gravity is the force that drives each of them. Globalization is a human driven force while gravity is an undisputable force of nature. Sir Isaac Newton’s law holds true regardless of human behavior, beliefs, or being. Should the human race disappear from the face of the planet globalization would cease to exist.
Change is inevitable, yes, necessary would be even accurate. Whether change occurs by need, chance or want is a question to ponder on. All life on Earth evolved and is still doing so. Living beings developed from tiny amoebas into thousands of different species each with its own developmental evolution. This happened by chance but humans have the ability to make conscious adaptations in order to survive. Combine this with our active imaginations and opposable thumbs and you get “progress”. From the crafting of the wheel to technological innovations, human progress has come in many forms. How this progress is used is based on culture and culture is also subject to change. Gravity, as far as is known, is as it has always been. There is no development that takes place in it. The formulas that determine gravitational pull are the set in nature and there is no changing them.
As humans progressed and branched out across the planet the differences in the perception of the world around shaped the cultures that developed. Though change is unavoidable it should happen at a natural pace not at the accelerated pace of globalization. In larger societies progress is usually hailed as technological and mechanical advances. The faster things can get done the better. Smaller societies usually don’t place so much emphasis on the values of faster, better, and more, so technology and mechanics do not so much serve them when left to themselves. The influence that the larger has on the smaller is increasingly greater and the pressure to compete causes them to make these advances. This is where gravity and globalization overlap, in the concept of the larger body having a great pull on the smaller. When this concept occurs within the natural order of things it seems to be alright, but once again, globalization is not a natural force, but a human force, and humans are not always ethical and do not always have a greater good in mind.
If globalization is truly unavoidable then all of our planet will eventually be uniform. If globalization follows gravitational laws, then all of the small paradises will eventually become progress driven power houses and there will no longer be escape from the stress and higher expectation that the larger societies represent. The planet may then lack the diversity in culture, goods and experience when travelling from country to country, and wouldn’t that be an awful loss to future generations.