Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - CORPORATISM. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't. John Ralston Saul
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Highest moment the last eight years?CHENEY: Highest moment in the last eight years?
Well, I think that the most important, the most compelling, was 9/11 itself, and what that entailed, what we had to deal with, the way in which that changed the nation and set the agenda for what we've had to deal with as an administration.
CHRIS WALLACE: Can I add, sir, (ph) that's also your lowest moment?
RICHARD CHENEY: Sure. Yes.
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In today's world, the goals of a committed anarchist should be to defend some state institutions from the attack against them, while trying at the same time to pry them open to more meaningful public participation— and ultimately, to dismantle them in a much more free society, if the appropriate circumstances can be achieved.
Noam Chomsky
Indispensable Books:
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann.
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky
The Death of Economics (1997) by Paul Ormerod
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