Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
NOAM CHOMSKY
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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