Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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