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Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.
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Noam Chomsky |
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Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to tests and the test determines what happens to the child, and what happens to the teacher...that's guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process: it means the teacher cannot be creative, imaginative, pay attention to individual students' needs, that a student can't pursue things [...] and the teach..
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greed
imagination
education-reform
eye-opening
standardized-testing
school-reform
capitalism
human-nature
creativity
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Noam Chomsky |
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Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.
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Noam Chomsky |
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power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.
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Noam Chomsky |
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0113c7f
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the countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.
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Noam Chomsky |
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Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror" and "terrorism." These terms have generally been confined to the use of violence by individuals and marginal groups. Official violence, which is far more extensive in both scale and destructiveness, is placed in a different category altogether. This usage has nothing to do with justice, causal sequence, or..
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violence
terrorism
united-states
terror
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Noam Chomsky |
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Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.
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Noam Chomsky |
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Take democracy. According to the common-sense meaning, a society is democratic to the extent that people can participate in a meaningful way in managing their affairs. But the doctrinal meaning of democracy is different--it refers to a system in which decisions are made by sectors of the business community and related elites. The public are to be only "spectators of action," not "participants," as leading democratic theorists (in this case,..
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Noam Chomsky |
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Structural factors are those such as ownership and control, dependence on other major funding sources (notably, advertisers), and mutual interests and relationships between the media and those who make the news and have the power to define it and explain what it means. The propaganda model also incorporates other closely related factors such as the ability to complain about the media's treatment of news (that is, produce "flak"), to provide..
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Noam Chomsky |
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5c3b1e6
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Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.
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Noam Chomsky |
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For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account.
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Noam Chomsky |
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950a2b3
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It's easy to think of things that need to be done, but they all have a prerequisite, namely, a mass popular base that is committed to implementing it.
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Noam Chomsky |
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They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.
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corporatocracy
voting
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Noam Chomsky |
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139e3f3
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what are called opinions "on the left" and "on the right" in the media represent only a limited spectrum of debate, which reflects the range of needs of private power--but there's essentially nothing beyond those "acceptable" positions. So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the "national interest" and so ..
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Noam Chomsky |
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One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use."
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neoliberalism
economics
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Noam Chomsky |
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f15c140
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The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well.
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Noam Chomsky |
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That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don't call that a crime of democratic capitalism. If we were to carry out that calculation throughout the world... I wont even talk about it. But Sen is correct; they're not intended, just like the Chinese famine wasn't intended. But they are ideological and institutional crimes, and capitalist democracy and its advocates are responsible for them, in wha..
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capitalist-democracy
chinese-famine
communist-china
crimes-against-humanity
noam-chomsky
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fy l`shrynt w 'wy'l lthlthynt 'wDH hrwlj lzwyl mw'ss `lm ltSlt w 'Hd mnZry l`lwm lsysy@ lmrmwqyn , 'nh l yjb 'n nstslm lldwjmt ldymwqrTy@ ,lty tqwl b'n lrjl qdrwn `l~ lHkm `l~ mSlHhm , fhm lysw kdhlk ! nHn kthr lns qdr@ `l~ tHdyd w lHkm `l~ lmSlH l`m@ , w bltly nTlq mn tlk lq`d@ l'khlqy@ lbsyT@ l bd w 'n nt'kd mn 'nh ln ttH lhm lfrS@ lltSrf bn `l~ sw 'Hkmhm fym ysm~ lywm bldwl@ lshmwly@ 'w ldwl@ l`skry@ hw 'mr Gyr mstHyl , fqT `lyk 'n tmsk..
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Noam Chomsky |
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The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action.
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Noam Chomsky |
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there has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee.
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Noam Chomsky |
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And the spectators must not be allowed to see too much. President Obama has set new standards in safeguarding this principle. He has, in fact, punished more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined, a real achievement for an administration that came to office promising transparency.
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Noam Chomsky |
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That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn't democracy.
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Noam Chomsky |
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Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.
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Noam Chomsky |
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Compare mathematics and the political sciences--it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for ..
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Noam Chomsky |
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A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not particularly controversial. In essence, the private media are major corporations selling a product (readers and audiences) to other businesses (advertisers). The national media typically target and serve elite opinion, groups that, on the one hand, provide an optimal "profile" for advertising purposes, and, on the other, play a role in decis..
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public-relations
truism
propaganda
media
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Noam Chomsky |
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The idea that we must choose between the method of "winning hearts and minds" and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right."
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imperialism
vietnam-war
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Noam Chomsky |
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The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.
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political-science
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Noam Chomsky |
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4b1f12e
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Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people.
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classism
corporatocracy
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Noam Chomsky |
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204d6c8
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If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.
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education
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Noam Chomsky |
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Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a certain sense if the sole human value is making as much wealth as you can tomorrow. You don't care what happens down the road and you don't care what happens to anybody else. It makes perfect sense. If it destroys the world, well, it's not my problem.
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chomsky
climate-change
republicans
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Noam Chomsky |
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In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?
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war-on-drugs
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Noam Chomsky |
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The bulk of the advertising directed at children today has an immediate goal. "It's not just getting kids to whine," one marketer explained in Selling to Kids, "it's giving them a specific reason to ask for the product." Years ago sociologist Vance Packard described children as "surrogate salesmen" who had to persuade other people, usually their parents, to buy what they wanted. Marketers now use different terms to explain the intended resp..
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Noam Chomsky |
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He wants to focus on what he calls 'cultural issues.' That makes sense, because when you're going to rob people blind you don't want to have them focus their attention on economic issues.
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politics
economics
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Noam Chomsky |