The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKYUnlimited 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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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