Democratic Underground - I've believed that for some time and I believe that's more or less what Chomsky

is alluding to in this interview, although he refers to it as "structures of power."

However it seems even the wealthy and members of the corporate media are trapped in this subconscious Matrix.

http://www.alternet.org/books/146815/noam_chomsky%3A_the_u.s._continues_to_be_a_terrorist_state?page=3

Guernica: Are �structures of power� amoral or immoral?

Noam Chomsky: Structures of power are amoral. The CEO, say, of the American Petroleum Institute may care a lot about whether his grandchildren will have a decent world to live in. But as CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, he�s going to try to make that impossible by doing what they�re doing right now, in fact. Working out ways to try to duplicate the success of the insurance industry in undermining any kind of health reform. They�ve already announced, �We�re gonna try to learn from tactics and block any kind of energy or environmental bill.� Now he knows (he�s not an idiot) that could lead to a serious catastrophe which could undermine the prospects for the life of his grandchildren whom he cares a lot about. But as the director of a petroleum institute, he can�t consider that. If he did, he�d no longer have that position.

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Guernica: What are those changes you mention above that can dissolve the structures of power?

Noam Chomsky: Consider the systematic dismantling of industrial capacity, say GM plants, destroying the workforce and communities, while Obama�s transportation secretary is abroad seeking to use federal stimulus money to contract with Spanish firms to provide high-speed transport�which could be produced by converting the plants that are being dismantled, by the skilled workforce being abandoned. It might require takeover of the facilities by �stakeholders��workforce and community. There�s no economic principle that bars that, and it could happen with sufficient consciousness and popular support.

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Guernica: You�ve called �the inability of educated classes to perceive what they are doing� an �historical universal.�

Noam Chomsky: Close to it.

Thanks for the thread, jfkraus.

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