Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Chomsky: Elites Have Forced America into a National Psychosis to Keep Us Embroiled in Imperial Wars

”War is the health of the State,” wrote social critic Randolph Bourne in a classic essay as America entered World War I:

“It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense .... http://www.alternet.org