The "Man" Watch: Take That, Hippy

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"The population has been very carefully excluded from the political arena, and the general culture, the general dominant culture. That's not by accident. An enormous amount of work went into this. Elites were terrified by the sixties, this outbust of popular participation in democracy and so on. And there's a huge counter campaign to drive it back. It shows up in all kinds of ways. From what's called neo-liberalism -- opening up the financial system to freeing financial flows which is well understood as a weapon against allowing governments to make choices, a weapon against democracy. From that, to the huge explosion of the lobbyists in Washington, to the right wing think tanks. Everything you can think of, across the board, has been an effort to drive that danger of democracy back into the hole where it belongs."
--Noam Chomsky, from an interview with www.democracynow.org, 10/21/04