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.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhile the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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That’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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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