pissgender:

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blackblocberniebros:

dialectical-devitoism:

aint it wild how you could read about all the crimes committed by the US government from like a middle school library computer connected to wikipedia, like it’s so casually there 

Chomsky talks about how the US is an unusually free country in terms of like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of information.

But I think it also says a lot about how like the government just fundamentally doesn’t consider us a threat. They’ll let us know almost everything, what are we gonna do with that information, revolt? Like they can’t crush us within seconds?

Yea, it’s still wild tho, they willingly declassify information that basically shows them to be mass murdering war criminals/profiteers, but almost no one bats an eyelid

Chomsky also talks about how the U.S. doesn’t need repressive government censorship and revision when our media works pretty well as an american propaganda machine all by itself. According to him, it’s less that the government doesn’t see it’s citizens as a threat, but that it has so many other institutions in place that do the job of an overarching oppressive state. These institution help re-educate the public so to speak and soften possible revolutionary movements with misinformation and libel.

It probably doesn’t help that information literacy in most public school systems is abysmal. Having near unlimited access to information doesn’t help if kids/adults don’t know how to siphon out reliable/useful knowledge from the heaps of data that fill the internet/libraries/etc.