"As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership."
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"The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that."
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"They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development."
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"My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence."
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"[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available."
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"Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition from sailing ship to telegraphs was far greater than the shift from the postal service to email. That was a fabulous change. If you sent a letter to England, instead of waiting a couple of months for a response you got it instantly. That's a huge change. Every one of these changes of course increases opportunities and also increases means of control and domination."
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"Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not the fault of the internet, it's the fault of a social and culture system that doesn't educate people properly and in fact on purpose. They don't want to educate people properly."
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"It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level of education and privilege, one of the two political parties virtually denies the well-established facts about anthropogenic climate change."
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"I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high."
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"Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice."
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"I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course."
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"The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded."
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"[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there."
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"The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense."
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"I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible."
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"My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever."
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"I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything."
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"If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion."
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"We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it."
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"Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge."
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