The ten guidelines are not all

Buster 2022-08-19 18:40:55

Elite politics, democratic politics, authoritarian politics, minority elite politics, majority tyranny...We dare not say which one is better, but the wheel of history has run over, whether it is the disappearance of the ancient Roman republic or the labor movement of the world. Has a bloody past. Can the future be determined? Is history accidental or inevitable? We are only in the process of development. When the post-modern society arrives, we hope to become clearer and clearer, but we know that with the development of technology and economy, we will only face more and more problems.
Ubiquitous monitoring...weapons, terrorism...not just the American dream, but the world dream pill?...

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  • [first lines]

    Noam Chomsky: During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, and when most of my family was unemployed working class, it was bad, much worse objectively than today. But there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. - There isn't today.

  • Noam Chomsky: Keep workers insecure and keep them under control, and they're not going to ask for decent wages or decent working conditions, or the right of free association, meaning unionizing. Now for the masters of mankind that's fine. They make their profits. But for the population it's devastating.