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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.
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Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
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.
