Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy

"Democracy, the modern world’s holy cow, is in crisis," declared Arundhati Roy in a speech delivered at the Riverside Church in Harlem, New York, on May 13.

"And the crisis is a profound one. Every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell, emptied of all content or meaning. It can be whatever you want it to be. Democracy is the Free World’s whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of taste, available to be used and abused at will."