I've always had a more Marxist view of Cosmopolitanism, i.e. Cosmopolitanism is an ideology that comes from economic relations, rather than being a separate 'thing'. Ideology (ruling ideas) always serve the ruling class and it is distributed through the media, academia, education (indoctrination), politicians and HR departments.
Cosmopolitan Liberalism is perfectly suited to consumption and increasing overall, equal-opportunity participation in the consumption market. It encourages female consumption via Feminism. It rejoices when new, foreign participants enter the consumption and labour markets via immigration. Homosexuality is celebrated because gays have a lot of disposable income and are great consumers. All of this serves the financial interests of the elites. Equal-opportunity participation in the consumption market is the highest virtue.
Humanism is a fake morality that comes with little or no personal cost and high conformity. It encourages feel-good sentiments, virtue-signalling, patronising attitudes to the those less well of, and a lack of personal responsibility. Humanism is full of resentment for personal impotencies and failures, hypocrisy/double standards, and blames easy targets for society's problems (e.g. RWNJs, Murdoch press) rather than taking a hard, uncomfortable, politically-incorrect look at the causes of problem. It sees dissidents who notice problems as the problem, not the problems themselves, as they break the happy denialist consensus and bring unpleasant feelings and implications. Dissidents and non-conformists are ignorant/bigoted/racist/unprogressive/deplorable. Importantly, Humanism encourages materialistic comparisons and envy, which supports consumption as a means of gaining social status. Humanists loves to virtue-signal about their choice of consumer products (fair trade, vegan, renewables, foreign dishes) to show how enlightened and progressive they are. It is a perfect social complement to economic globalism.
Summary: economic globalism and social cosmopolitanism complement each other, with the former giving rise to the latter, and the latter supporting the former, rather than these being two separate things.
Cosmopolitan Liberalism is perfectly suited to consumption and increasing overall, equal-opportunity participation in the consumption market. It encourages female consumption via Feminism. It rejoices when new, foreign participants enter the consumption and labour markets via immigration. Homosexuality is celebrated because gays have a lot of disposable income and are great consumers. All of this serves the financial interests of the elites. Equal-opportunity participation in the consumption market is the highest virtue.
Humanism is a fake morality that comes with little or no personal cost and high conformity. It encourages feel-good sentiments, virtue-signalling, patronising attitudes to the those less well of, and a lack of personal responsibility. Humanism is full of resentment for personal impotencies and failures, hypocrisy/double standards, and blames easy targets for society's problems (e.g. RWNJs, Murdoch press) rather than taking a hard, uncomfortable, politically-incorrect look at the causes of problem. It sees dissidents who notice problems as the problem, not the problems themselves, as they break the happy denialist consensus and bring unpleasant feelings and implications. Dissidents and non-conformists are ignorant/bigoted/racist/unprogressive/deplorable. Importantly, Humanism encourages materialistic comparisons and envy, which supports consumption as a means of gaining social status. Humanists loves to virtue-signal about their choice of consumer products (fair trade, vegan, renewables, foreign dishes) to show how enlightened and progressive they are. It is a perfect social complement to economic globalism.
Summary: economic globalism and social cosmopolitanism complement each other, with the former giving rise to the latter, and the latter supporting the former, rather than these being two separate things.
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