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3.05.2003
Confronting Empire "Still, many of us have dark moments of hopelessness and despair. We know that under the spreading canopy of the War Against Terrorism, the men in suits are hard at work. While bombs rain down on us, and cruise missiles skid across the skies, we know that contracts are being signed, patents are being registered, oil pipelines are being laid, natural resources are being plundered, water is being privatized and George Bush is planning to go to war against Iraq" Arundhati Roy ----- When people in America think of Empire, we still think of direct control. But as any of us might realize if we examine our own lives, its not direct control that always limits our freedom. We spend so much time defending ourselves from dictators and governments that we have a blind spot for people that control our lives through indirect manipulation. We don't wake up at the crack of dawn and drag ourselves to sucky low wage jobs because the dictator is watching us. We have pressures. Pressure is the nature of American empire. We have gained control over vast amounts of resources. Others resources in many cases. We allow access to resorces on a reward and punishment basis. We let our friends have access and keep our enemies from getting their grubby little hands on it. We see the riches that we control as ours. We gve to people out of the kindness of our own hearts. Because these people cannot take care of themselves we must take care of them. The actual picture as I see it is that we bear a better resemblance to the landowners and we allow sharecroppers to sustain themsleves if they make themselves useful. The old colonial model says that we have direct ownership by occupation. The new colonial model is that we have ownership through legal controls. Either way it determines the destiny of others. Its a distinction between influence and control. Either way it breeds resentment. We in the U.S. get very agigtated when we feel we are losing soviegnty, why should others be any different? | |
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