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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…
- Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
- To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
- In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,…
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph…
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
- It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic…
- For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite…
- If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live…
- From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual…
- The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,…
- The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want…
- We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it.…
- Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of…
- Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
- As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these…
- Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the…
- Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind…
- But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public…
- I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish…
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