Sunday, August 10, 2008
Mediating Markets and Missionaries
Bringing together greed and piety in the public mind as the best world possible, is the challenge of mediating markets and missionaries. As a closed system -- uniting the modern state, transnational corporations, and religious institutions in subduing open minds and cultures existing outside the state-centric framework -- the psychological warfare deployed by the Fourth Estate against the Fourth World epitomizes the term totalitarian. The machinery for vanquishing original peoples and ancient cultures has never before been so absolute; whether indigenous resistance can muster sufficient strength to weather the combined force of militaries, markets and NGOs remains to be seen.
