We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

Going back to why people don't vote, I presume the main reason is because they understand without reading political science texts that it doesn't make any difference how they vote. It's not going to affect policy, so why bother?

NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.

There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.