You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor 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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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