I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.

Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.