|
unhinged
|
'so, things were on hold during the second world ar, but immediately afterward, the business offensive began in force. the taft-hartley act and mccarthyism, for instance, were followed by massive corporate propaganda offensives - offensives to attack unions, to take over and control the educational system, sports leagues, infiltrate churches, everything - it was just massive. there's a lot of good scholarship on this.
going along with this was getting people to have a more ambivalent attitude toward the government. on the one hand, people must be induced to hate and fear government, the potential instrument of popular will, while private corporations are left unaccountable, yielding a form of tyranny - the more they have power and the less government has power, the better from the viewpoint of the rich and powerful. so on the one hand, people have to be induced to hate government, while on the other hand, they have to support government because private business relies extensively on state support - all the way from high technology economy to bailouts, to international force, and so on...' - noam chomsky
|
180909
|
