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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.

Noam Chomsky

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Category Country Mechanic Professor Same Talk
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Citizen Enemy Government Man Own Protect Regard Themselves
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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Hero May People Primary Stood Think
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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Concentration Employment High Increase Legislation Political Power Rise Wealth Yield
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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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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All Constant Cultural Decision Helpless Make Over People Place Pressure Propaganda Ratify Role System
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Choose Comfort Illusion Live World
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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Attention Barbarian Been Country Need Pay See Thousand Three Year
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Assumption Discussion Rational Share Significant Useful
The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Almost Episode Insane Truth Whole
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Catastrophe Environment Knowledge Nuclear Problem Species Toward
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Bludgeon Democracy Propaganda State Totalitarian
I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Concern Enormous Environment Ethnic Event Globe Instance International Movement Right Solidarity Term
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Environment Extremities Ignore Impact Lethal Market Transition

A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.

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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.

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