Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.

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

I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.