The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a...
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Noam Chomsky:
The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter what people think because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem - it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think
The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter what people think because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem - it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think
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For the first time in this century
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for the first time in perhaps all history
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Man does not have to invent a system by which to live
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We don't have to talk late into the night about which form of government is better
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We don't have to wrest justice
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from the kings
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We only have to summon it from within ourselves
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Movie Summary
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
