For Reasons of State - Noam Chomsky

 ‘Today …….. it is almost axiomatic that that in ‘free market’ democracies, public opinion is manufactured just like any other mass market product – soap, switches or sliced bread.

In the ‘free’ market, free speech has (also) become a commodity like everything else……available only to those who can afford it.

This weeks Green Thought is taken from  ‘The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky’ by Arundhati Roy (2003) ); the forward to the 2003 reprint of Noam Chomsky’s 1973 book For Reasons of State.

 

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