“Microchip Immune Defficiency” is the term Thomas Friedman, author of “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” uses for organizations and countries who have been ‘left behind’ because they cling to parochial ways, refusing to acknowledge the speed with which information, technology and finance are transmitted around the world today (globalization). This is another way of saying “time, place, and circumstance,” dictate the way we preach Krishna consciousness.