One can understand why so many liberal intellectuals were terrified at the end of the sixties, why they describe this period as one of totalitarianism of the left: for once they were compelled to look the world of facts in the face. A serious threat, and a real danger for people whose role is ideological control. There is a recent and quite interesting study put out by the Trilateral Commission -- The Crisis of Democracy, by Michel Crozier, Samuel Huntington, and Joji Watanuki -- in which an international group of scholars and others discuss what they see as contemporary threats to democracy. One of these threats is posed by "value-oriented intellectuals" who, as they correctly point out, often challenge the institutions that are responsible for "the indoctrination of the young" -- an apt phrase. The student movement contributed materially to this aspect of "the crisis of democracy."
<http://www.chomsky.info/books/responsibility01.htm>http://www.chomsky.info/books/responsibility01.htm
At 06:34 AM 6/19/2012, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>what is the "crisis of democracy" report to which he refers?
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>At 02:07 AM 6/19/2012, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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>>When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam
>>Chomsky's work will survive ...
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>>Here is Chomsky in Arizona:
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_EgdShO1K8
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>>The audience must have all the liberals in the state assembled in one place.
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>>CG
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