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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Noam Chomsky

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Ashamed Civility Intellectual Myself Power Tradition
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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Bomb Chungking Country No On People Position Relative Scale Stand Took
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Dress Nationalism Other Way
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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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Lose My Sometimes Temper
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Above Change Come Gift Progress Really Struggle
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Bail Case Environment No One Out
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Accomplice Antic Gradually Hardly Most Nixon Reveal Surprise
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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Commitment Different Federal High Inflation Official Policy Prevent Reserve
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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Alien Control Crime Drug Fear Immigrants Increase More Mother People
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Education Internet Very Meaningful Participation Positive Society
I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Assistance Attack Being Child Decent Dog Feel Hesitation Human Rapid Responsibility

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