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Noam Chomsky:
It means you have to develop an independent mind, and work on it. Now that's extremely hard to do alone. The beauty of our system is that is isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone. Some people can but it's pretty rare. The way to do it is with organization. So of course if there's to be intellectual self defence, it will have to be in the context of political and other organization
It means you have to develop an independent mind, and work on it. Now that's extremely hard to do alone. The beauty of our system is that is isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone. Some people can but it's pretty rare. The way to do it is with organization. So of course if there's to be intellectual self defence, it will have to be in the context of political and other organization
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It means you have to develop an independent mind and work on it
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That's extremely hard to do alone
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The beauty of our system is it isolates everybody
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Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube
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It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances
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You can't fight the world alone
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Some people can but it's pretty rare
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The way to do it is through organisation
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So courses of intellectual self defence
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will have to be in the context of political and other organisation
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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.
