Cardium Therapeutics, Inc. (CXM) Follows the Western Lifestyle
For well over a hundred years, industrialized nations have continued to export a wide range of manufactured goods and associated technologies to developing countries throughout the world. More than altruism, it was viewed as an immediate economic opportunity, but also as a way of gradually lifting less developed countries into the modern world where, it was hoped, they would become even better customers. In parallel with this was the export of Western ideas: democracy, capitalism, the value of abundance, and the value of consumption. America has played a leading role in all of this, with some unintended consequences. Because, along…