It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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 invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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