“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
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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 major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
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.