And no, I don't mean Teh Ceiling Cat. Sober up. (Slaps readers upside head.) Concentrate! Noam Speaks:
Read it again. Prescient old fart, however inadvertently: (Madison, not The Noam!) the Opulent Minority is going to need protection one day. Man them barricades, you lazy-ass—Oh. Well, whenever and wherever the barricades go up, see you there.Power resides in the hands of those that Madison called “the wealth of the nation.” The primary responsibility of government is “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority,” Madison declared. That has been the guiding principle of the democratic system from its origins until today.
To watch the whole (short) lecture, go here. | digg story
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Darn. I owe you a link. By the time I got done readin' and writin' a little about this Chomsky chunk, I forgot how I got there. Thanks! Link will be forthcoming in some future gratuitous posting at my place.
fp, i don't think the chomsky quote exactly sprang virginal out of my own head either, so don't worry about it.
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