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| Noam Chomsky
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. |
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