All 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYJohn Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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