US-Iran Policy Dynamics
By Noam Chomsky
IN CRUDE and brutal societies, the Party Line is publicly proclaimed, and it must be obeyed, or else. What you believe is your own business, of lesser concern. In societies where the state has lost the capacity to control by force, the Party Line is not proclaimed. Rather, it is presupposed, and then vigorous debate is encouraged within the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18235.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
IN CRUDE and brutal societies, the Party Line is publicly proclaimed, and it must be obeyed, or else. What you believe is your own business, of lesser concern. In societies where the state has lost the capacity to control by force, the Party Line is not proclaimed. Rather, it is presupposed, and then vigorous debate is encouraged within the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18235.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
rudkla - 23. Aug, 09:40
