Noam Chomsky Thought Control In Democratic Societies NEW!

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fudgepack99 · 2017-12 · Reference

>working as intended then ? Yes... the whole of education is to make society ignorant of reality. See here: [LINK] Then below... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [LINK] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [LINK] Manufacturing consent: [VIDEO] [LINK] "Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role." Crisis of democracy [LINK] Education as ignorance [LINK] Testing theories of representative government [LINK]

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Umn44 · 2016-03 · Reference

>This seems to hint at the problem. You (the left) conflate freedom and equality Actually it's because most people are ignorant. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning: [LINK] "Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role." Crisis of democracy [LINK] [LINK] Democracy Inc. [LINK] Testing theories of representative government [LINK] Overthrowing other peoples governments [LINK] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [LINK] Energy subsidies [LINK] Intereference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way [LINK] Manufacturing consent (book) [LINK] Manufacturing consent(vids): [VIDEO] [LINK]

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Umn44 · 2016-03 · Reference

>I've never even heard of this, Then you should read up on history. Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning: [LINK] Overthrowing other peoples governments [LINK] Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC [LINK] Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference. [LINK] Energy subsidies [LINK] Intereference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way [LINK] From war is a racket: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10] "War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24] General Butler is especially t

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