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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The best defense against democracy is to distract 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.
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.
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.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
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.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
