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On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

by Noam Chomsky

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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People who do not know that they are captive will not resist their bondage.

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“I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. State censorship is not necessary, or even very efficient, in comparison to the ideological controls exercised by systems that are more complex and more decentralized.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

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“Hence the elaborate pretense that the press is a critical dissenting force—maybe even too critical for the health of democracy—when in fact it is almost entirely subservient to the basic principles of the ideological system:”
― Noam Chomsky, On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

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“No doubt a propaganda system is more effective when its doctrines are insinuated rather than asserted, when it sets the bounds for possible thought rather than simply imposing a clear and easily identifiable doctrine that one must parrot—or suffer the consequences.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

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