If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.