If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them," apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates.
Noam ChomskySome [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown, but the burden of proof is on the critic who puts forth that thesis in particular cases.
Noam ChomskyYou have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well.
Noam ChomskyFree markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.
Noam ChomskyIf we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
Noam ChomskyThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyThe first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.
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