As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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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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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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