![]() ![]() ![]() Now there are two "functions" in a democracy: The specialized class, the responsible men, carry out the executive function, which means they do the thinking and planning and understand the common interests. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world.Ĭhomsky paraphrasing Walter Lippmann’s ideas about democracy ![]() … the issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. Quotations Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Media Control, 2002 ![]()
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