What are the elite media, the agenda-setting ones? The New York Times and CBS, for example. Well, first of all, they are major, very profitable, corporations. Furthermore, most of them are either linked to, or outright owned by, much bigger corporations, like General Electric, Westinghouse, and so on. They are way up at the top of the power structure of the private economy which is a very tyrannical structure. Corporations are basically tyrannies, hierarchic, controled from above.

If you don’t like what they are doing you get out. The major media are just part of that system.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the “national interest” and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework-so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is.

Noam Chomsky – Understanding Power (via noam-chomsky)

Every powerful state relies on specialists whose task is to show that what the strong do is noble and just and, if the weak suffer, it is their fault.

In the West, these specialists are called “intellectuals” and, with marginal exceptions, they fulfill their task with skill and self-righteousness, however outlandish the claims, in this practice that traces back to the origins of recorded history.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

The traditional justification for NATO was defense against Soviet aggression. With the USSR gone, the pretext evaporated. But NATO has been reshaped into a U.S.-run global intervention force, with special concern for control over energy.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein (via elevate3illuminate3ascend3)

Turing Test Fail

oxpinkxoariel: hey.

tarotblades: For a bot you’re pretty persistent.

oxpinkxoariel: A bot? not hardly babe. Are you?

tarotblades: I am, actually.

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tarotblades: lolol.

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tarotblades: Yeah, last night.

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tarotblades: But you very rudely signed off. Before I could say anything else.

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tarotblades: Obviously.

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tarotblades: Have you ever tried to learn how to spell?

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tarotblades: As soon as you learn how to spell.

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tarotblades: I think you have some sort of irregular stammer or muscle twitch that makes you incapable of spelling.

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tarotblades: Whatever link you have to offer, myself and computer included do not want it.

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tarotblades: You don’t take no for an answer, do you?

oxpinkxoariel: Hey Iets taIk on their my aim is meessing up.

tarotblades: Sure it is. Glitches are no excuse for lack of intelligence. They must be paying you well. Hardly anyone uses AIM anymore. Your hacking attempts or whatever you do must be on the decline.