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  1. Noam Chomsky _ How the World Works

    The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum-even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
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  2. Noam Chomsky _ How the World Works

    Take democracy. According to the common-sense meaning, a society is democratic to the extent that people can participate in a meaningful way in managing their affairs. But the doctrinal meaning of democracy is different-it refers to a system in which decisions are made by sectors of the business community and related elites. The public are to be only "spectators of action," not "participants," as leading democratic theorists {in this case, Walter Lippmann} have explained. They are permitted to ratify the decisions of their betters and to lend their support to one or another of them, but not to interfere with matters-like public policy-that are none of their business.
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