[sociate] Arundhati Roy pulls no punches

  • From: "Jerry Michalski" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Sociate News" <sociate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"Sociate Talk" <sociate-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:41:04 -0400

She gave an excellent speech recently which has received some radio play and
is available here and here in full text. A sample:


  Democracy, the modern world's holy cow, is in crisis. And the crisis is a
profound one. Every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of
democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell,
emptied of all content or meaning. It can be whatever you want it to be.
Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down,
willing to satisfy a whole range of taste, available to be used and abused
at will.

and a bit further on:


  The U.S. government has already displayed in no uncertain terms the range
and extent of its capability for paranoid aggression. In human psychology,
paranoid aggression is usually an indicator of nervous insecurity. It could
be argued that it's no different in the case of the psychology of nations.
Empire is paranoid because it has a soft underbelly.

  Its "homeland" may be defended by border patrols and nuclear weapons, but
its economy is strung out across the globe. Its economic outposts are
exposed and vulnerable.

If you can, find and listen to the speech. It is vibrant and direct.

posted by Jerry Michalski at 1:59 PM

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