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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 to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.
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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 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.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
