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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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