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Arundhati Roy: Great Spirit
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Arundhati Roy | "The deep moral ambiguity that we have towards violence lies at the root of this." Arundhati Roy, March 2002 on Democracy Now |
In each time, there may come one who has such beauty of spirit, and such a clarity of vision, as can cause a healing on a world wide scale by the force of truth alone. We may have the good fortune to live in such a time, and She may be among us now ;^)
"What I mean by the Algebra of Infinite Justice: it's really arithmetical.
What are the things that count in the calculus of power? Who are the
people who count? Who are the people who don't count? Whether you look at
Madeline Albright saying 500,000 children dying in Iraq was a price worth
paying, or whether you look at the war in Afghanistan; the world media
does not even want to know how many people were killed in Afghanistan,
how many innocent people died in Afghanistan. We don't want to follow
up: The U.N. reports that 7.5 million people were about to starve,
and suddenly, it's off the news. The only way to find out is to go to
Afghanistan, and if you can't go, you don't know what's happening. But
they don't count anymore.
So there are people in the world who count,
and people in the world who don't count. I'm not saying this is a genetic
problem with the American state, it's true of any state. And the more
powerful you are, the cruder the Algebra of Infinite Justice becomes." -- Arundhati Roy
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