February 2012
33 posts
“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that...”
– noam chomsky. (via pretentioushipstercats)
“Walter Lippmann … described what he called “the manufacture of consent” as “a...”
– In Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992 It’s a movie
MOVIE!
I am going to spend the break good!
(via fyeahnoamchomsky)
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“Economy is run by a network of command economies called corporations. What goes...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Public programs that provide funds for rich people are not called...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan’s attack on the US...”
– Noam Chomsky
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America In Decline? →
joninamerica:
An interesting read from one of my favourite political writers. Also find part two of this article from the link. Well worth the read.
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“Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gifh and the refusal to provide...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Even the Nazis harshly condemned terrorism and carried out what they called...”
– 9-11 - Noam Chomsky
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“Take the automation of production for an example. The same technology that is...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Marketing is manipulation and deceit. It tries to turn people into something...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“And they do this in all sorts of ways: by selection of topics, by distribution...”
– about media and propaganda - Noam Chomsky
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“There has always been racism. But it developed as a leading principle of thought...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state,...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“The primary responsibility of government is “to protect the minority of...”
– Consent without Consent - Noam Chomsky
Anonymous asked: When did you come up with the 10 strategies of manipulation?
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“That people must submit is taken for granted pretty much across the spectrum. In...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“My feeling is that student fees are instituted, basically as a technique of...”
– Noam Chomsky
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wordsfromtheleft:
“If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you’re saying, because it’s too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If...
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“Capitalism and Democracy are ultimately quite incompatible”
– Noam Chomsky, Goverment in the Future, 1970 (via tianxiaweigong)
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What is Love?
philphys:
“I just know that, [it] has an unbreakable grip, but I can’t tell you what it is, but life is empty without it.”
-Noam Chomsky
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“Still, in the universities or in any other institution, you can often find some...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“A person can do magnificently on a test, and understand very little.”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Because there is so much indoctrination that many people can’t even...”
– Noam Chomsky
January 2012
50 posts
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“This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are,...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“It’s the primary function of the mass media in the United States to mobilize...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“I believe in Cartesian common sense. I think people have the capacities to see...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Once its institutional structure is in place, capitalist democracy will function...”
– Noam Chomsky
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Deterring Democracy - Read Online →
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“The Grand Inquisitor explains that you have to create mysteries because...”
– Chomsky on Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
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“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is...”
– Deterring Democracy - Noam Chomsky
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“It’s an essential feature of human nature that people should be free,...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we...”
– Noam Chomsky
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recitation:
robert putnam is a sociologist at harvard who’s quite mainstream. he found about a 50% decline since the 1960s in any form of interaction - visiting a neighbour, going to PTA meetings, joining a bowling league. one reason children watch so much tv is that parent-child interaction has dropped 40% or so from the 1960s to today - at least in part because both parents have to work fifty...
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“There’s almost nobody who advocates market discipline for themselves;...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“It starts in kindergarten: The schools system tries to repress independence; it...”
– Noam CHomsky
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“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best...”
– Noam Chomsky
A lovely way to summarize my frusteration with my high school career. I love learning and I’m a responsible student (I hope to become a teacher one day). I take 5 AP classes as well as an upper foreign language and am in the top 1% of my class academically. I am, however, bored as...