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“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.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
You have to wait for poor Latino and Chinese workers to celebrate an international holiday of solidarity with American workers.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“This argument isn't quite presented step-by-step like that in the article-I've collapsed it. It's very clever propaganda, well designed, well crafted, with plenty of thought behind it. Its goal is to make people as stupid, ignorant, passive and obedient as possible, while at the same time making them feel that they're somehow moving towards higher forms of participation.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings. Now my desires were complied with, and it would, indeed, have been folly to repent.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“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.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
“The causes are the increasing polarization of the society that's been going on for the past twenty-five years, and the marginalization of large sectors of the population. Since they're superfluous for wealth production (meaning profit production), and since the basic ideology is that a person's human rights depend on what they can get for themselves in the market system, they have no human value.”
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
― Secrets, Lies and Democracy
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