What You'll Learn:
American power has been slowly tapering off since its zenith in 1945. So who pulls the strings now? Linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky argues that whatever decline the United States is experiencing, the nation still plays the tune to which the rest of the world begrudgingly marches. If the elites, the masters of mankind, continue to have their way, it will mean continued class warfare and inattention to the mounting threats of climate change and nuclear Armageddon.
Key Insights:
- Intellectuals have a responsibility to defend the people, but most end up defending the state and its agenda.
- There’s the world and then there’s “the world.”
- The world has changed a lot in the past century, but US hunger to control “the Grand Area” has not.
- US power is declining, but that nation’s elites remain the undisputed masters of mankind.
- Iran is not the main destabilizing force or mobilizer of terrorists in our world—but the nation that levels such accusations is.
- It will be difficult for the world to do something constructive about climate change until the United States agrees to become part of the solution.
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