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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to 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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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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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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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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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 Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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