The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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