01-09-2013, 04:40 PM
(01-09-2013, 04:27 PM)Pickle Wrote:(01-09-2013, 11:55 AM)Siren Wrote: Lack or avoidance of responsibility/self-sovereignty. I have witnessed, by everyday observation and passive interaction, that the great majority of the people prefer other individuals to choose for them.
I was turned on to this guy today while making attempts to understand the changes I am going through.
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ~Soren Kierkegaard
Oh, so true.
Here from Noam Chomsky:
You don’t have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system – a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as “Commissars” – for that is what their essential function is – to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies."