Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story. If anyone reading this works for Gates Foundation, Ford, or Rockefeller, or is in the Council on Foundations Working Group for Social Justice and World Peace, it would be good to know how you would answer Roy's chilling charges of witting or unwitting complicity with an increasingly oppressive social structure.
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A thought-provoking jeremiad -- thanks for sharing this, Phil. I very much appreciated seeing the outlines of the emerging New World Order through the eyes of someone who understands the Indian context. Couldn't assess the truth of Roy's claims in that domain, but what she writes about the Philanthropic Industrial Complex and the NGOization of justice rings true. I recommended the article to many colleagues. One of the best I've read in a long time.
Posted by: Curator | March 29, 2012 at 04:09 PM
Thank you, Curator. As we reflect on the piece, and your friends do too, how much of these reflections can be made public, and how congruent are the private and public lucubrations? That gap or tension might help us assess the validity of the Jeremiad. The Colonnial Foundation program officer is himself or herself colonized internally. When the private story is whispered and the public story is heralded, and whisperer and the herald are the same, we can rightly claim that we have mastered ourselves for a higher purpose. Wealth Bondage Worldwide in my case.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | March 31, 2012 at 03:47 PM