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Noam Chomsky On Right-Wing Media

Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky criticizes right-wing media outlets, which he describes as delivering a message of paranoia and economic populism comparable to Nazis during the Weimar Republic. "There were people with real grievances," says Chomsky. "The Nazis gave them an answer."

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Chuckus : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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39 days 8 hours ago...

THe problem is that it feels good to have simple answers. IT feels good to say that you`re under attack by some problack, pro gay, anti christian boogie man. It makes all other problems feel like they have a simple solution. Some of us like to think extreme left wing feel good values where government is a benevolent provider is the answer because it provides a simple clear path to prosperity and equality for all.

Saying that 9/11 was a massive conspiracy makes us feel good because we don`t have to deal with the fact that our life style hurts people in other countries and that horrific things can be done by whackos with a shoestring budget compared to the entire western worlds military defence budgets.

We like to say all muslims are terrorists because then we don`t have to deal with the fact that majority of the worlds muslims are good people and it`s hard to indentify those who would help us and those who would hurt us.

We like to say all government is bad because shrinking government would help reduce corruption at the government level but we don`t think about what the fall out from that would be. And vice versa some like to think an all powerful world government would solve our problems without realizing the risks involved with centering power so much.

We like simple answers to complex questions because thinking about what`s really going on is so damn hard. Thinking about these complex problems and acting on those well thought out conclusions was supposed to be the American dream. Freedom of thought and expression and the freedom of action to implement those well thought out ideas. We always press for the freedom of action but forget that careful study and thought come first and the freedom to think and have access to good information is all but destroyed these days.

We`re not truly free.

masterdebater : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

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38 days 14 hours ago...

I guess this is old news but I gave it 5/5

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