Some current writers and thinkers in this arena are Noam Chomsky, Jerry Brown, Jim Hightower, Michael Parenti, Jerry Mander, David C. Korten, William Ophuls (his telling title: Requiem for Modern Politics). Some of the current advocates of the "Fifth Estate" fit well, too; John Zerzan and Hakim Bey among them (click http://www.hermetic.com/bey/index.htmlfor a good website on Bey's work) as well as moderns in the tradition of Tom Paine, Thoreau, and Emma Goldman.
Quotes
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
- Noam Chomsky
"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience ... Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
-The Nuremberg Tribunal 1945-1946
"A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now."
-Mort Sahl
"There is no country with a military so powerful, an economy so strong, and a culture so great that its politicians cannot pull it down."
-Dr. Donald Gilbert Carpenter
"...[citizens'] Misery is directly proportional to the size and power of the national state."
-close to original quote from Leopold Kohr
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
"That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose."
-Barbara Ehrenreich
"The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts."
-Eugene J McCarthy
"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses."
-Georges Bernanos
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
-Will Rogers
"Being politically correct is always having to say you're sorry."
-Anonymous
"Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a job, I guess."
-From an actual answer on a 6th grade history test
Online Info and Links
Many other good quotes and other material on Christy Rogers’ site, but just to wet your whistle, this corker from Eduardo Galeano: "Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer, it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking." http://www.whatifjournal.org
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