Claim two: globalization is inevitable and irreversible The second mode of decontesting 'globalization' turns on the adjacent concept 'historical inevitability'. In the last decade, the public discourse on globalization describing its projected path was saturated with adjectives like "irresistable', 'inevitable', "inexorable', and irreversible'. For example, in a major speech on U.S. foreign policy, President Bill Clinton told his audience: 'Today we must embrace the inexorable logic of globalization... Globalization is irreversible. Protectionism will only make things worse'. Frederick W. Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx Corporation, proclaimed that 'Globalization is inevitable and inexorable and it is accelerating...Globalization is happening, it's going to happen. It does not matter whether you like it or not, it's happening, it's going to happen'. Social elites in the global South often faithfully echoed the determinist language of globalism. For example, Manuel Villar, the Philippines Speaker of the House of Representatives, insisted that, We cannot simply wish away the process of globalization. It is a reality of a modern world. The process is irreversible'... Theologian Harvey Cox argues lucidly that the globalist claim of inevitability in market terms bears a striking resemblance to conservative and religious narratives. Christian stories of human origins and the fall from grace, as well as doctrines of original sin and redemption often find their contemporary expression in globalist discourses about the creation of wealth, the seductive temptations of statism, captivity to economic cycles, and, ultimately, salvation through the advent of the global free market. According to Cox, both narratives are sustained by a belief in an inner meaning of human history determined by the unalterable will of a transcendental force. Endowing it with the divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, globalists assign to 'The Market' a 'comprehensive wisdom that in the past only the gods have known' Presenting globalization as some sort of natural force, like the weather or gravity, makes it easier for globalists to convince people that they have to adapt to the discipline of the market if they are to survive and prosper. Thus, suppressing alternative discourses about globalization, Claim Two undermines the formation of political dissent. Public policy based on globalist ideas appears to be above politics; leaders simply carry out what is ordained by nature. Since the emergence of a world based on the primacy of market values reflects the dictates of history, resistance would be unnatural, irrational, and dangerous