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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
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. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
