You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYOnce 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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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