As it’s traditional here in Catalunya for Saint George’s day ( Sant Jordi), Gerard gave me a book and a rose.
The book he gave me was Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival. The book’s first chapter, which I’ve just finished reading, gives you enough to chew on for a while.
It’s really sad to see how a country which is supposed to be the example per-excellence of democracy and justice is rulled by an elite of despotic polititians, expert manipulators of public opinion, capable of perpetrating the worse of crimes. Americans are loosing their freedom in front of their faces. If the people don’t regain control of the situation it’s only going to get worse.
In the base of all conflicts, there is always a concept that keeps rising. There are those who think that is better a lesser injury, sacrificing what is needed, than to suffer a greater harm for not “preventing” it. This is what the US government keeps using as an excuse for preventive attacks, in other countries and in it’s own nation. This is also the way people who support the death penalty think. Is this the kind of culture that should dominate the world?
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