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If The World Is Upside Down The Way It Is Now, Wouldn't We Have To Turn It Over To Get It To Stand Up Straight?

To Narrate Is To Give Oneself: It Seems Obvious That Literature, As An Effort To Communicate Fully, Will Continue To Be Blocked So Long As Misery And Illiteracy Exist, And So Long As The Possessors Of Power Continue To Carry On With Impunity Their Policy Of Collective Imbecilization Through The Mass Media.

Almost All Wars, Perhaps All, Are Trade Wars Connected With Some Material Interest. They Are Always Disguised As Sacred Wars, Made In The Name Of God, Or Civilization Or Progress. But All Of Them, Or Almost All Of The Wars, Have Been Trade Wars.

And One Fine Day The Goddess Of The Wind Kisses The Foot Of Man, That Mistreated, Scorned Foot, And From That Kiss The Soccer Idol Is Born. He Is Born In A Straw Crib In A Tin-roofed Shack And He Enters The World Clinging To A Ball.

From The Point Of View Of The Economy, The Sale Of Weapons Is Indistinguishable From The Sale Of Food. When A Building Collapses Or A Plane Crashes, It?s Rather Inconvenient From The Point Of View Of Those Inside, But It?s Altogether Convenient For The Growth Of The Gross National Product, Which Sometimes Ought To Be Called The "gross Criminal Product."