Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKYRational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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NATO 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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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