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[CrocodilusPontifex]

Chomsky intentionally misrepresents the concept of "Manufacturing Consent." The phrase was coined by political commentator Walter Lippman do describe the process by which democratic governments get common people to surrender some freedoms to educated professionals for the better godo. There's nothing to sinister about this. Should regular, untrained citizens be alowed to pursue and arrest convicts, perform surgery or inspect nuclear reactors? Of course not.

[killuminati35]

In many of his writings on the "manufacturing of consent", Chomsky does attribute the original idea to Walter Lippmann.

Furthermore, "manufacturing consent" has nothing to do with "arresting convicts" or "performing surgery". It has much more to do with misleading the public on basic policies that affect their lives -- I.e. health care, labor laws, war, etc.

That isn't democracy and is very sinister.

[Alex W]

Is that a joke? Chomsky doesn't ruin his own work with his views on 9-11. On the contrary, he keeps it consistent.

He believes that the system DOESN'T depend on secret, smoky rooms where faceless, suited men conspire and create ways to get what they want at the public's expense. He believes that the injustices are fairly systematic and come from the well-understood and out-in-the-open interests of the slim minority with all the power trampling on the interests of the rest of the people.

[hunterthompson123]

Chomsky is right about basically everything, i cant think of one thing hes said that i actually disagree with!

[olivialeonie]

Reveal yourself



[olivialeonie]

I dislike?

[Hdogization]

An excellent documentary that shows the sickening & pathetic way of life most Americans are leading.....

America is gonna be a Third world country within 15 years. Unless they re-invent their way of consuming their own democracy and by admitting countries like India, Brazil and China are already or becoming the most important economies the coming two decades. America and it's Americans need to realize that consuming their own wealth by owning, buying and having the constant {GREEDY} need for b

[camreeno360]

I think people need to stop worhipping Noam Chomsky. There's a bit of an irony of saying you completely agree with him, yet that is likely due to the fact that you haven't listened to anybody else. If you lived in a world where you only listened to an evangelical preacher, chances are you'll "agree" with everything he says because you haven't cross-examined it against anything else.

It's the same here with Chomsky. He's right with many things but wrong about 9/11 for example.

[DivineNucleus]

Number One, have you missplaced something important? --

[HailRasec]

Noam is amazing.

[Dragolaa]

I never mentioned being against a thorough research (in fact, I'm all for it). My point was that this isn't Chomsky's battle to fight. He's going for the real deal, the crimes that are incorporated into the system. While important, I'm perfectly fine with the fact that he choose not to pursuit this topic in order to stay focused on the bigger picture.

[Erb Stank]

Dragola

Try telling that to families of soldiers sent to their slaughter in Afghanistan &Iraq

Try telling that to citizens of Iraq &Afghanistan whove had their countries buried under the rubble of perpetual turmoil

The entire precedent of the war on terror emanates from 9-11. a war that is engineered to last as long as the cold war did on communism

not bothering with a real investigation means we've consented to accept the curtain of lies drawn before our eyes as the unquestionable truth.