Some Monday dinnertime wisdom from Noam Chomsky:

marmar

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Mon Oct-15-07 06:03 PM
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Some Monday dinnertime wisdom from Noam Chomsky:

"These sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered."

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Mr Rabble

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Mon Oct-15-07 06:08 PM
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1. "gain wealth forgetting all but self"

What was called the new spirit of the age....in the late 1800's.

Clearly, the massive propaganda campaign has worked. We are the ideal: atoms of consumption.

Without having read Chomsky you forfeit any claim to understanding how power works.

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Trillo

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Mon Oct-15-07 06:17 PM
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2. Reminds me of Durant's quote from 1935

"Hence the state . . . used and forged many instruments of indoctrination -- the family, the church, the school -- to build in the soul of the citizen a habit of patriotic loyalty and pride."

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Mr Rabble

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Mon Oct-15-07 06:24 PM
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3. And still another-

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."

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jazzjunkysue

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Mon Oct-15-07 06:26 PM
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4. Help me out, here. What do I buy? Which book/essay/article?

I want MORE!

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Mr Rabble

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Mon Oct-15-07 07:16 PM
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6. I would suggest spending some time on Youtube.

Look for these:

Free Market Fantasies

Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind

That should be a good start.

Here is another quote:
"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."

Here is something that was said as Chomsky was introduced at one of his talks-

"He will not be bullied; he will not be intimidated. He is a fearless, formidable, totally independent voice. He does something which is really quite simple, but highly unusual: he tells the truth."

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jazzjunkysue

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Tue Oct-16-07 05:03 PM
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8. Will do. I got my new library card today (just moved) and took out 2 books:

Imperial nation and Failed states. Turned off the idiot box and put on some music and will curl up with Noam.

Thanks!

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Bozita

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Mon Oct-15-07 07:14 PM
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5. Chomsky and Bill Moyers were scheduled callers on Media Matters with Bob McChesney yesterday - audio

October 14, 2007 This week is our Fall Pledge Drive show. We'll be running an extended show with scheduled callers including Bill Moyers and Noam Chomsky.
RealAudio | MP3 Download

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/

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Mr Rabble

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Mon Oct-15-07 07:17 PM
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7. Awesome. McChesney is another voice of sanity.

I missed the show yesterday. Thanks for the reminder!

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