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.
NOAM CHOMSKYColorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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