The Invisible Government | Dissident Voice
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2007年7月20日 - A total change of relationships – a new horizontal world – not a superior/subordinate vertical one. A reconstitution of power in a democratic ...

传统社会是字自上而下（自统治、威权到草根）的纵向结构，下级服从上级起主导作用，现在的世界则是横向的或者趋于横向的， 特点是民主、自由和平等。

只能按字面意思翻，或加括号稍加解释。

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Agree with“扁平的世界”

The World Is Flat - Wikipedia
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in ...
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The World Is Flat这本书被翻译为“世界是平的”。 它的观念应该和horizontal world是类似的。


托马斯·弗里德曼的书籍
《世界是平的：一部二十一世纪简史》是一本由托马斯·弗里德曼所撰写的畅销书，书中分析了21世纪初期全球化的过程。书中主要的论题是“世界正被抹平”，这是一段个人与公司行号通过全球化过程中得到权力的过程。 维基百科
首次出版时间： 2005 年 4 月 5 日
作者： 托马斯·弗里德曼
体裁： 经济学， 政治， 历史， 企业， 非虚构作品
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More refrence for the meaning of "Horizontal World":
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/12/04/horizontal-worl...
A Horizontal World? Occupy Can't Win with Utopian Impossibilities
Listen to conversations within the Occupy movement and you will hear an emerging vision of the world’s future.
byBret Weinstein
Listen to conversations within the Occupy movement and you will hear an emerging vision of the world’s future.

It is a world where power is “horizontal” and local. Where populations have organized into true communities that provide increasingly for their own needs and trade with each other for that which they cannot produce. It is a world much better suited, physically and socially, to the creatures that we are built to be, than is the cruel and self-destabilizing world we currently inhabit.

It is a world that, were it possible, I would embrace.

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horizontal 只是一个方位概念，就是“平的”，“与地平线平行的”，

它和“ horizon”的表示“前景”或“新生事物”的比喻意味无关。

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horizontal它和“ horizon”的表示“前景”或“新生事物”的比喻意味无关。

horizontal 是一个方位概念，就是“平的”，“与地平线平行的”，说现在的世界是横向的， 而非纵向的，是用来比喻人和人之间的关系。Digitization让人们对资源的占有趋于横向。