Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.
Noam ChomskyIt is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
Noam ChomskyTags: advertising marketing politician politics-of-the-united-states media-of-the-united-states
Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.
Noam ChomskyTags: fear nationalism united-states hypocrisy violence intellectuals soviet-union consensus war-crimes international-law state-terrorism american-imperialism ronald-reagan reagan-doctrine state-sponsored-terrorism
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.
Noam ChomskyTags: politics economics united-states law violence intellectuals conservatism aggression politics-of-the-united-states keynesianism welfare-states
(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.
Noam ChomskyTags: rationality
These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.
Noam ChomskyTags: france postmodernism french-postmodernism
The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements, they can make contributions. And a lot of them is drawn away from this: antropologists, sociologists and others. They are drawn away in this arcane, and in my view, mostly meaningless discourses and are disassociated from popular struggles. And you can see the impact. They really indicate that the level of irrationality that grows out of this undermines the oportunities for doing something really significant and important. It is like consumerism because it diverts people from concentrating in a serious way and doing something about their own problems.
Noam ChomskyTags: french-postmodernism
authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.
Noam ChomskyThe term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It doesn't add anything, it just says 'this is serious truth'. So to say that something is 'physical' today just means 'you gotta take this seriously'.
Noam ChomskyTags: physicalism
Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?
Noam ChomskyTags: philosophy
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