On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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