I’m reading the book Upside Down by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America’s most eloquent voices and fiercest denouncers of the effects of globalisation and the free market on social injustice and poverty in the world. His style of writing is kind of like having a boxing glove covered in something sweet and pretty pounded into your head and you’re beggin’ for more, and you can put your finger on just about anywhere in Upside Down, and there’ll be some amazing quote about the state of the world. I thought I’d highlight this one.

From Eduardo Galeano: Upside Down. A Primer for the Looking-Glass World:

The upside-down world rewards in reverse: it scorns honesty, punishes work, prizes lack of scruples, and feeds cannibalism. Its professors slander nature: injustice, they say, is a law of nature. Milton Friedman teaches us about the “natural rate of unemployment.” Studying Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, we learn that blacks remain on the lowest rungs of the social ladder by “natural” law. From John D. Rockefeller’s lectures, we know his success was due to the fact that “nature” rewards the fittest and punishes the useless: more than a century later, the owners of the world continue to believe Charles Darwin wrote his books in their honor.