Ideas are the same, operational activity changed. Good old days where people would read full news papers and make opinions, now just the headline not content on a small screen to make opinions without even realizing that there is a algorithm behind or who knows what. Good old days where humans fought humans in the name of glory and security now robots or robotic processes without emotions so if you are happy or angry or sad, it will be used and it is very hard for human not to react as brain has a side which creates emotional reaction to every action. But again in the name of glory and security. In good old days when humans fought humans in the name of glory and security then also thought of economic integration and balance as a measure for stability and security to create a glorious generation with a consistent battle with the idea of glory on own terms. At micro level, own terms can not even thought to be forced from one individual to another individual so individuals make choices sometimes firm and sometimes flexible but when these choices are boxed by robotic processes then the individual identity gets questionable as by boxing all the choices individual make, individual behaviour gets predictable and this is how robotic processes convert an individual into a robotic process. If this is applied at macro level then it directly means colonization. If rulers decide that they want good old days then all the elements which make good old days to bad old days come to reality as well. It is much easy to create a problem and much hard to avoid the problem. Freedom of choices at individual level stop when it start touching other individual with the idea of live and let live. At macro level, live and let live is much more easily understandable and is foundation for peace which require mutual respect, flexibility in ideas and choices. Colonization or globalization as an idea can be persued or any other idea but basic question is why?

https://edition.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/axe-files/episodes/37845c38-58a6-4c02-99e7-aea8003affc0