Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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