Noam Gets It Right
"Any good capitalist democracy needs to keep the rabble in line. To make sure that they are atoms of consumption, obedient tools of production, isolated from one another, lacking any concept of a decent human life. They are to be spectators in a political system run by elites, blaming each other and themselves for what is wrong."
Noam Chomsky
"The Spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than it's desire for sleep."
Guy Debord
"As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than their rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them."
Adorno
"Fight for your mind!"
Ben Harper
posted by troutsky @ 8:51 PM
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2 Comments:
I guess nothing ever works for us. we’re fools, of course–
bucking the inside plus a 15 percent take,
but how are you going to tell a dreamer
there’s a 15 percent take on the
dream? he’ll just laugh and say,
is that all?
----- Charles Bukowski
I notice that Noam doesn't offer any enlightenment into "what a decent life" consists of. And therein lies an inherent self-critique of the so-called "critical theorists."
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