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@neckercube1 It sounds like you're taking the lyrics too seriously. It has more irony and mockery than sincerity and affection.

I'm probably the only person in America who thinks of William Trevor's "Office Romances" when he hears this.

@TurtlesandWolves The apathy and indifference is precisely why Chomsky's dissent is tolerated at all. If his criticisms showed the slightest sign of sparking popular unrest, he'd be silenced.

@ElasticGiraffe So would you say the average person's standard of living has increased in the past 30 years?

@3:25 Buckley's reference to Makarios is wrong to the third power. Makarios was the (democratically-elected) president of Cyprus, not Greece; his authority was not artificial or external, as Pierre Laval's or Petain's was in Vichy France; and, most flagrantly, Makarios's tenure (indeed, his very...

@mgm8822 Probably. Naivety that festers smells far worse than weeds.

@ricojay86 He's in the audience. Much of Chomsky's arguments are reincarnated in Hitchens's "The Trial of Henry Kissinger", oddly enough.

@blakesdad38 That's a little overliteral. I think he was asking what the source of the reference was.