bs2Jun 18, 2024
Not Dead Yet! (hopefully), but here's a way to review decades of reading...
> The [media's] effect on the public isn’t very much studied but to the extent that it has been it seems as though among the more educated sectors the indoctrination works more effectively. Among the less educated sectors people are just more skeptical and cynical.” Thus, if media does produce “consent,” it is more among the privileged classes than it is among ordinary people...
https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theory-elites/
#NoamChomsky
We Remember Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant

More than any other thinker in the postwar era, Noam Chomsky embodied Karl Marx’s favorite dictum: “nothing human is alien to me.”

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> ... there is a kind of repetitiveness to Chomsky’s empirical work... For the overwhelming majority of Chomsky’s audience, who don’t pore over all of his writing as part of their job, there is no such feeling of repetition. They come to him when they need him, and when they do, they find what they are looking for — a confirmation that their instincts are right, that they have been lied to yet again.

For me it was
_#DeterringDemocracy _ about El Salvador, Nicaragua...
#VivekChibber #Chomsky

Jun 18, 2024 at 11:38pmWeb