Napoleon explains globalization to Pocahontas on the moon

Only in an Xtranormal story of globalization can we imagine Pocahontas meeting Napoleon on the moon, not to get married so Poca can become the ghost of Napoleon's umpteenth global empress, but to get lessons of globalization from him.

Incidentally both Pocahontas and Napoleon could be said to be two representative figures of globalization, if we define globalization as a complex web of forces and factors that bring people, economic activities and cultures together (not always a "happy" contact, but a contact nonetheless).

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, Napoleon sought to integrate the world along the Enlightenment values of equality, fraternity and liberty espoused by the Revolution, but of course Napoleon's bent was primarily toward accumulation of world power based on conquest through military might:-) 

Poca herself was a victim or a beneficiary (depending on what side of the fence one is) of globalization: Born in a native-American tribe, Poca was kidnapped by the English during an English-Indian skirmish of around 1613. Poca was converted to Christianity and acquired the name of Rebecca while in English captivity. When it was time for her to return to her tribe, Poca chose to stay back with the English and married John Rolfe, an English tobacco planter in 1617. The Rolfe marriage is American history's earliest recorded example of an interracial marriage. Pocahontas or Rebecca Rolfe became a token symbol of the "civilized savage" and was shown off as such by Rolfe in London. 

Pocahontas may have been a female counterpart of the Thomas Babington Macaulay's 19th century human project of the "brown sahib", the Bengali administrative unit that Macaulay bragged to have created by infusing a "white soul" into the "brown" bodies of Bengali men. 

In the 21st century an aspiring globalizer of the 17th century stands face to face with a hybrid-identity endowed, "globalized" historical figure, on the surface of the moon, in and of itself an extra-geographical terrain that is a site of global competition in the world today.

The possibilities are immense.