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?
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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It 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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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