Avram Noam Chomsky ( 7 of 7 )
The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't read more
The trouble with peace propaganda is that when it is permitted it isn't necessary, and when it's necessary it isn't permitted
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. read more
Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.
"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries read more
"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at read more
The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.
I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will read more
I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
