The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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