Today as usually I read the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in my favorite Cafehaus.
On page 41 (FAZ 2nd Oct 2002) I found a very powerful essay by the Indian writer Arundhati Roy*.
The essay was titled with Wie man eine Krieg verkauft and featured the translated version of Why America Will Fail by Arundhati Roy.

The last paragraph really made me think: "A world run by a handful of greedy bankers and CEOs who nobody elected can't possibly last. Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first-century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature."

Read more essays by the same autor: The algebra of infinite justice or Under the nuclear shadow

*Arundhati Roy is known for her book "The God of Small Things"

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