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Undertow - Brian's Blog

"The effect [of corporate propaganda] has been, pretty much, to demolish civil society, to turn people into what is the ideal. And the ideal is very clear. The ideal is a completely fragmented, atomized society, where everyone is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants. They don't have any connection with anyone else. You don't see anyone else, you don't deal with anyone else, you're an atom of consumption. And you go to work at lower and lower wages for more and more hours and less and less benefits and security in a 'flexible' labor market. That's the kind of utopia that they're looking for. --Noam Chomsky, in 'Class War: The Attack On Working People', 1996"