More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
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.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
