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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

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Choose Comfort Illusion Live World
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Civilian Innocent Kill Terrorism Wanton
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
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Assumption Discussion Rational Share Significant Useful
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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Accordance General Imaginable Intend Most Necesasarly Responsibility
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Absolute Credential Literally Professional Teach Truth
I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Attribute Conceive Experience Foreign Lot Policy Useful
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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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Creation Even Free Interpretation Involve Process Use
The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Design Globalisation Interest Investor Own Power Right Specific Term Wealth
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Country Good Harbor Many Omb Pearl Thing Very
Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Bring Build Deep Ever Exist History Now Once Point
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Applied Country Hang However Law Nuremberg President
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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Apocalyse Contemplate Equanimity Estimate High Person Probability Realistic Same Surely Too
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Card Credit Debt Enormous Especial Large Student Trap

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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