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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
