Small-talk

[Jim heartfield]

>The Indian writer Arundhati Roy put it best, writing about her crusade
>against a World-Bank-funded dam: "Perhaps what the 21st century has in store
>for us is the dismantling of the Big. Big bombs, big dams, big heroes, big
>mistakes. Perhaps it will be the Century of the Small."

'World-bank funded'? I thought that the World Bank had pulled out of the
Narmada Dam, despite the determination of the Indian government to go
ahead. Of course, it is very convenient to big capital to keep everyone
else small. A century of small ambitions will leave capital's rule
intact. (Did the small century not start many years earlier with
Stalin's modest proposal of socialism in one country?)

Connolly once said (from memory)

My goals most modest are, 
I only want the earth.

And, quoting DeLeon (quoting St Just?)

The great only appear great because we are on our knees, arise!

-- 
James Heartfield

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