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“For example, one of the effects of the so-called free trade agreement with Canada was to stimulate a big flow of jobs from Canada to the southeast US, because that's an essentially nonunion area. Wages are lower; you don't have to worry about benefits; workers can barely organize. So that's an attack against Canadian workers.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The original science fiction masterpiece that redefined horror and ethics.

“That's a dramatic example of the efficiency with which business controls US ideology, of how effective its propaganda and indoctrination have been in depriving people of any awareness of their own rights and history.
You have to wait for poor Latino and Chinese workers to celebrate an international holiday of solidarity with American workers.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“By the way, that propaganda system includes not just how issues are framed in news stories but also how they're presented in entertainment programming— that huge area of the media that's simply devoted to diverting people and making them more stupid and passive.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy