Sunday, May 18, 2003

Arundhati Roy: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free”

Go here for the video and text of an amazing presentation.

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.

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