Galeano, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, combines a novelist\'s intensity, a poet\'s lyricism, a journalist\'s fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious expose of first-World privileges and assumptions.
In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed..
We have accepted a reality we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark.
From a master class in The Impunity of Power to a seminar on The Sacred Car--with tips along the way on How to Resist Useless Vices and a declaration of the The Right to Rave--he surveys a World unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness.
In a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions.
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Galeano, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, combines a novelist\'s intensity, a poet\'s lyricism, a journalist\'s fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious expose of first-World privileges and assumptions
