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Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis

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The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

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The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

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Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common humanity.

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A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

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We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

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Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

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Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

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There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

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Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

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Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

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Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.

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Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

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The relationship between those who are constantly watched and tracked and those who watch and track them is the relationship between masters and slaves.

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To be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state.

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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

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When you spend that long on the outer reaches of empire, you understand the cruelty of empire... and the lies we tell ourselves about what is done in our name.

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Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

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The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

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The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

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An omnipresent surveillance state... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state.

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As I looked out on the crowd, I was witnessing things I had witnessed in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina or in squares in Belgrade… it breaks my heart when I see it in my country.

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The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

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Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

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The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

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Those who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to live with criminals—themselves.

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This deadly impasse, the tightening of the corporate totalitarian noose, would have continued if Snowden had not jolted the nation awake by disclosing the massive crimes of the prerogative state.

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