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Noam Chomsky | Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity

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“Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that’s institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody’ll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremendous effect you just reach all sorts of people. Of course if you do it you may very have problems, you have to tread the narrow line. There are plenty of people who don’t want students to think, they’re afraid of the crisis of democracy. If people start thinking you get all these problems that I quoted before. They…

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Noam Chomsky | governments will use whatever technology

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“Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population” Noam Chomsky “Regierungen sollten nicht über diese Fähigkeit verfügen. Aber Regierungen werden jede Technologie nutzen, die ihnen zur Verfügung steht, um ihren Hauptfeind zu bekämpfen – ihre eigene Bevölkerung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | course of intellectual self defense

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“Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.” Noam Chomsky “Die Bürger demokratischer Gesellschaften sollten Kurse für geistige Selbstverteidigung besuchen, um sich gegen Manipulation und Kontrolle wehren zu können.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Voting is not an option

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“It’s about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign — it’s an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule by the rich and the powerful, without interference by the mob but within the framework of formal electoral procedures.” Noam Chomsky in 1993 regarding NED: Voting is not an option “Es ist in etwa, was man von einem zweiparteilichen demokratischen Wahlkampf erwartet – es ist ein Versuch, das aufzuzwingen, was formell Demokratie genannt wird, d.h. Herrschaft durch die Reichen und Mächtigen, ohne eigentliche Einflussnahme durch die breite…

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Noam Chomsky | The general population doesn’t know

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“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” Noam Chomsky “Die Mehrheit der gewöhnlichen Bevölkerung versteht nicht was wirklich geschieht. Und sie versteht noch nicht einmal, dass sie es nicht versteht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | bludgeon is to a totalitarian state

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“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda “Propaganda ist für eine Demokratie das, was der Knüppel für einen totalitären Staat ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | why the propaganda system works

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“I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.” Noam Chomsky “Ich denke, es gibt einen guten Grund, warum das Propagandasystem so funktioniert. Es erkennt, dass die Öffentlichkeit die eigentliche Politik nicht unterstützen wird. Deshalb ist es wichtig, jede Kenntnis oder jedes Verständnis von ihnen zu verhindern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Therefore it’s important to distract them

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“The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not…

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Noam Chomsky | The smart way to keep people passive and obedient

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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow a very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people a sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of debate.” Noam Chomsky “Der schlaueste Weg, Menschen passiv und gehorsam zu halten, ist, das Spektrum an akzeptabler Meinung streng zu beschränken, aber eine…