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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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 intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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