Manufacturing Consent

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One of my fellow Atlanta Anarchists made a good point when he watched this documentary:

“Well I have my own ideas of what a future society should look like. I have written about them. I think that at the most general level that we should be seeking out forms of authority and domination and challenging their legitimacy. Now ’sometimes’ they are ‘legitimate’, that is, let’s say they’re ‘needed for survival’. So for example I wouldn’t suggest that during the second world war, the forms of authority, we had a totalitarian society basically, and I felt that there was ’some justification’ for that under the wartime conditions. And there are other forms, for instance ‘the relation between parents and children’ for example involve forms of coercion, which are ’sometimes justifiable’.” – Noam Chomsky

So basically, Noam Chomsky considers coercion to be justified if it meets his criterion ‘needed for survival’. WTF? Who decides if coercion X is ‘needed for survival’ or not? (I’d guess Noam Chomsky or his fellow elites decide.) How much totalitarianism does he think is justified? I have trouble even considering how the US aggression overseas in Japan and Europe could possibly be considered ‘needed for survival’. That is the same BS that every politician uses, such as Bush regarding Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama regarding Yemen and Pakistan. ‘Needed for survival’ is pretty much how most statists justify The State. And how the hell can one sometimes justify the coercive relationship between parents and children. If a child does not like his parents, then that child should be free to leave that relationship, no questions asked. What if the parents are forcing that child to attend one of Noam Chomsky’s socialist indoctrination/re-education centers after discovering that child exhibiting individualist, selfish, or capitalistic behavior? Does Noam Chomsky consider that coercion to be justified? I would be very interested in hearing a clarification of Noam’s idea about the legitimate use of violence. If anyone out there knows of a short essay or youtube video specifically addressing this, please post it to my wall. It could very well be that I am taking his words out of context or misunderstanding him since it was such a short clip, but I have a bad feeling that he is on the same page as the Randroids on this, so it is probably safe to completely ignore such “anarcho”-syndicalists need time I run into one.

*EDIT* Chomsky is anything but a philosopher. So inconsistent and twisted.