But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
NOAM CHOMSKYAll over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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 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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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