mleku on Nostr: noam chomsky is a paleo-conservative ...

noam chomsky is a paleo-conservative

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“Take the resort to clandestine operations in foreign policy: that means the creation of a powerful central state immune from public inspection. Or take the increased efforts at censorship and other forms of control. All of these are called "conservatism," but they're the very opposite of conservatism. Whatever the term means, it involves a concern for Enlightenment values of individual rights and freedoms against powerful external authorities such as the state, a dominant church, and so on. That kind of conservatism no one even remembers anymore.” - Noam Chomsky