架空馬戲團

"To love.
 去愛
 To be loved.
 被愛
 To never forget your own insignificance.
 永遠別忘記自己有多微渺
 To never get used to the unspeakable violence
 永遠不要慣從於無法言喻的暴力
     and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
     以及你週遭對生命之不平等對待

New WorId Disorder
War is peace. So now we know.
by Arundhati Roy
In These Times magazine, November 2001

 
As darkness deepened over Afghanistan on October 7, the U.S. government, backed by the International Coalition Against Terror (the new, amenable substitute for the United Nations), launched air strikes against Afghanistan. TV channels lingered on computer-animated images of cruise missiles, stealth bombers, tomahawks and bunker-busting missiles. All over the world, little boys watched goggle-eyed and stopped clamoring for new video games.

Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and
Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
18 September 2002

                                   

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