I think it’s vital to de-professionalize the public debate…

“I think it’s vital to de-professionalize the public debate on matters that vitally affect the lives of ordinary people. It’s time to snatch our futures back from the ‘experts.’ Time to ask, in ordinary language, the public question and to demand, in ordinary language, the public answer.”

– Arundhati Roy, via Nicole Ouimette, “Why Liberal Academics and Ivory Tower Radicals Make Poor Revolutionaries”