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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.093515.8777@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 09:35:15 GMT
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- "To derail concern over whether you should _support_their_policy_,
- the PR system focuses attention on whether you _support_our_troops_ --
- meaningless words, as empty as the question of whether you support the
- people of Iowa.
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- "That of course, is just the point: to reduce the population to
- gibbering idiots, mouthing empty phrases and patriotic slogans, waving
- ribbons, watching gladiatorial contests and the models designed for
- them by the PR industry, but, crucially, not thinking or acting.
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- --Noam Chomsky, "Post War Teach-In," _Z_, Apr. '91
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- [For more about Z, email harelb@math.cornell.edu]
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