There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the capacities are present, unlike other animals, as far as is known. There's no challenge to the theory - not mine, but everyone's - that the human language faculty provides the means for generation of an infinite array of structured expressions.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.