The World is Flat

If the water level rises one inch at one place, it would raise the same everywhere.
Financial crisis in US has yet again reminded us of the fact that the world is flat.

If you have read Thomas Friedman about the world being flat as I have, then you obviously know how good it is for the world being flat but recent crisis has started a debate in myself that would it have been better if the world was not flat? At least I wouldn’t have lost money in Indian stock market because of mistakes done by the finance companies in US.

Think of the olden times when civilizations & settlements were separate and thrived in isolation. Some civilizations faced grave times, some come over it and some got eradicated. It all happened in separate places and may be since everything was so isolated it did not affect the other civilization/settlement.

Imagine a group of people who are caught in a maze and it is essential that any one of them should come out of the maze and survive, what would be the best strategy? Should the people be together or should they go in separate directions? Mathematically and logically they should separate out and go in different direction in order to have more chances of anybody surviving.

I never stop thinking about a situation or crisis that affects one part of the world and gets transmitted like a disease to other parts of the world because everything is so connected. What are the chances of our survival if something like this happens?