“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.