Essays Book

Chapter Six is best and has a very worthwhile interview with Noam Chomsky where Noam says, "the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon - I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman and child. - that's supposed to be gentle and wonderful." The opposition to Social Security is simple - you must first drive the concept of caring for others out of your head. "Social Security is based on the idea that you care - That's a dangerous sentiment. You're supposed to just be out for yourself." "The only choices you are supposed to make are the choices of commodities." In America there is this fantasy that hard work gets people ahead, but Noam knows this is only because there is a "dynamic state sector" - the internet, computer, pharmaceuticals and other "wonderful" inventions all came from government subsidy, not a young Bill Gates working alone in his garage. Taxes paid by Americans repeatedly pay for the technology that we then pay for again personally while assuming we are handing money to the inventor, not the license holder…