The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
NOAM CHOMSKYNATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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John 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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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