The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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As 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 never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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.
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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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