Zojuist ook Erich Fromm, De angst voor de vrijheid, aan wikipedia toegevoegd. Iemand moet het doen tenslotte. Ben ik mee bezig i.h.k.v. een 'archeologie' of 'genealogie' van m'n politieke bewustzijn.

Iedereen heeft een politiek bewustzijn, de vraag is wat de bronnen ervan zijn, hoe het gevormd is en hoe het je denken vorm geeft en beperkt.

Wat zijn jouw bronnen voor je politieke bewustzijn?

As a Booker Prize winner, there's no shortage on material on the book on the web. Here's a personal impression.

In the past i have had to work with Indian people. It was at a time our software development was off-shored. I got in touch with people from Chennai who had seen the latest Hollywood movies faster than you and I. And owned them on DVD as well. About the only time a cultural difference became explicit, was when we were in the home of a Dutch colleague who owned a big flatscreen TV that was quite visible from the street. The Indians wondered about the fact that it didn't get stolen immediately by passers by.

In contrast, Adiga writes about another India where slavery is a normal thing, where votes are bought by the rich and where insubordination results in the killing off of your family. Not such a nice sight.

Do you want to see it, i wonder?