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 CHOMSKYThere are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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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.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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