Essential Chomsky - Democratic Underground

marmar

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Thu Dec-09-10 10:14 PM
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Essential Chomsky

"That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met."

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"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom."

-- Noam Chomsky

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2476.Noam_Chomsky

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BrklynLiberal

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Thu Dec-09-10 10:21 PM
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1. Thank you.

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tomp

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Thu Dec-09-10 10:23 PM
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2. also, thank you. nt

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David Zephyr

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Thu Dec-09-10 10:26 PM
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3. K&R.

thanks, marmar

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snagglepuss

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Thu Dec-09-10 10:28 PM
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4. k & r

thanks for posting.

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superduperfarleft

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Thu Dec-09-10 10:29 PM
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5. Great words, I wish people, especially DUers, would think about them more often. n/t

Edited on Thu Dec-09-10 10:30 PM by superduperfarleft

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pnorman

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Thu Dec-09-10 11:39 PM
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6. Here's on of my favorite Chomsky quotes"

CHOMSKY: Well, let me give an example. When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

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Ghost Dog

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Fri Dec-10-10 03:53 AM
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7. Precisely. It's that level of superficiality, as a matter of deliberate policy,

that renders any claim to 'representative', much less 'participative' democracy by policy makers simply a cruel joke.

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the redcoat

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Fri Dec-10-10 04:08 AM
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8. Incredibly relevant, thank you.

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