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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn 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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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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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