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• Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism. -- N. Chomsky
• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system
  there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume....
• The alternative to the totalitarian state is the cooperative commonwealth. -- Norman Thoma
• As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
  -- Prof. Noam Chomsky...
• Colourless green ideas sleep furiously." -- Prof.
• Science fiction is to the totalitarian state what Aesop's fables were to the institution of slavery in the sixth century B.
  C. It is, of course, subversive. by taking ideas too seriously, it ridicules people....
• it's just what usually happens is propaganda from the right is perceived as actuality, and propaganda from the left is perceived as propaganda.
  .. -- Art Spiegelma...
• You can call Usenet a democracy if you want to. You can call it a totalitarian dictatorship run by space aliens and the ghost of Elvis.
  It doesn't matter either way. -- Dave Mack...
• Bart: [laughing at I&S] You know, this isn't so bad.
  I'll just spend the summer getting better acquainted with an old friend called television....