NeoProtectionist

What is neo-protectionism and why the neoprotectionist?

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=neo

(adj) neo ((used as a combining form) recent or new) “‘neo’ is a combining form in words like ‘neocolonialism’”

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=protectionism

(n) protectionism (the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition)

Neo-protectionism is a challenge to some of the other neos out there. The neoprotectionist is intended as a rigorous review of how we, in the United States of America, need to adjust our focus to return to a competitive position in the new world. The New World Order is not what we thought.

The New World is made up of billions: smart as we are, hungrier than we are and vastly less complacent.

Protectionism is about security through closing – closing our borders, markets and minds.

The neo-protectionism is about security through openness, emulation and humility.

I conclude this inaugural post with a quote from Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat:

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up.

It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.

When the sun comes up, you better start running.

The sun is up somewhere. Are we the lion or the gazelle?