| ARUNDHATI: |
Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than the powerless know the truth. Enron knows what it's doing, We don't have to tell it what it's doing. We have to tell other people what Enron's doing. The contractors know how much they're stealing. The bureaucrats know how much they're getting as bribes. Power knows the truth, there isn't any doubt about that. It is really about telling the story. . . in a way that ordinary people can understand. Snatching our futures back from the experts and the academics and the economists, and the people who really want to kidnap or capture things and carry them away to their lairs and protect them from the unauthorized gaze or the curiosity or understanding of passers-by. That's how they build their professional stakes by saying "I am an expert on something that you can't possibly understand. My expertise is vital to your life, so let me make the decisions." |
