I couldn’t get pass first 30ish pages in the main book (after reading trough the prefaces and skipping here and there reading some other stuff that piqued my interest also). It got me heavily depressed and left me feeling completely powerless and hopeless and it only reinforced the things I noticed and tought about USA myself.

And I just quit…prefering the sanity of ignorance to the madness of reality.

How can anyone hope to have a normal world with THAT…and I live in Eastern Europe…one would say far away from thr main American Influence. Not so far as it felt before. If we tought that the Nazis or the Communists were evil…ohoho boy…this book makes one feel like there is nothing more vile in the world than the United States of America government.

Did you read it? How did it make you feel?

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    10 months ago

    Chomsky came into his own during the protest movements of the Vietnam War - he developed anti-capitalist, anti-imperialists ideology (which was big back then) and has made the facts fit his ideology ever since.

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    10 months ago

    I’ve watched many of his interviews, and I totally understand what you’re saying.