Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
NOAM CHOMSKYUp 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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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’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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