@vicar, I do, and I recognize that tech is separate from politics. That is part of my point.

We have had fresh produce delivered. Sometimes, good, sometimes bad. The last one was lychees. They arrived with a chemical preservative in the box, when we had specifically asked if there was chemicals and we were told no. I think the sales person was just ignorant and assumed fresh = fresh.

There has also been produce which was just turning bad, this was at the end of its season. In the local market you can see when stuff is turning.

We have had fantastic pomegranates and avocados (and bad avocados). I think the trick is to know what is in season, and when it is coming to the end of its season.

Personally, I prefer to handle fresh produce before I buy it, and also avoid the surplus use of packaging and plastic bags; but these are personal choices.

Brexit and Trump are bumps in the road to the world becoming more uniform. You could argue that Trump, Boris, Putin, Erdogan, etc are part of a new trend (trends are an example of some uniformity that challenges the old uniformity). This process was happening before Liberalism. It is one reason why many states through history have put limits on things like TV and books, in an attempt to stop new outside ideas becoming part of their own culture.

Today it is the internet, more than anything else, that is unifying how we do things. If certain tech giants get into crypto-currencies as well, then that will have a huge affect on how we bank, with a huge potential to make uniform who we all manage our money around the world.

The world is certainly getting more uniform, and at a seemingly faster rate. Perhaps just the natural progression of the world getting smaller.

Yay! More plastic packaging.