You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only can't you tell the truth, you can't think the truth. It's just so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it comes out the same way it does in a totalitarian state.

People tend to rally around power.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.