The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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