-
Cary 2022-09-17 04:19:47
Who makes the rules? Who obeys the rules?
Many times, many people ignore the basic rules of social operation, are confused by this dazzling world, and lose their basic moral conscience and reason.
Creating consumers is a good reason to let the public behave themselves, ignore the public, and gradually lose the motivation to think. This is...
-
Kristy 2022-08-19 22:12:48
Chomsky's 2015 "Requiem for the American Dream"
I recently watched Chomsky's 2015 "Requiem for the American Dream", and I have a lot of thoughts, so try to write down a few points.
Let me talk about Chomsky first. His insight into language and his understanding of power and politics made him a rare and true public intellectual. In China, it is...
Extended Reading
Requiem for the American Dream quotes
-
[last lines]
Noam Chomsky: Like my close friend for many years, Howard Zinn, put it in his words that "What matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter into history." They're the ones who have done things in the past and they're the ones who have to do it in the future.
-
Noam Chomsky: It ends up with what is called 'regulatory capture'. The business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. Bank lobbies started writing the laws of financial regulation, it's got to that extreme.
