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.

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If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

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The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

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Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

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The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

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He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

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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. 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.

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