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.’
NOAM CHOMSKYInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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 Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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