![]() These are assumptions, double standards, so deeply engrained in the culture, so ubiquitous, so automatically adhered to by the mainstream media, political leaders, and other opinion shapers as to generally not even need to be spelled out. What you’ll find, he contends, is that the United States is absolutely not immune to the tendency of nations to construct biased worldviews that attribute to themselves-or at least to their elites-the purest of motives while assuming other nations act from amoral self-interest at best and more likely malevolent motives. ![]() I always like Chomsky’s approach of asking us to consider the matters at hand as if we were people looking down from another planet, or future historians looking back long after the present societies have disappeared or evolved, in other words like people without a dog in the fight who can be objective and dispassionate about the evidence. The essays overlap, and there is not only considerable redundancy of topic but at times the same points are made with the same wording. Think of it instead as a collection of essays about what’s on Chomsky’s mind. Who Rules the World? is not a well-organized book making one coherent argument. ![]() He hits all his usual interpretive themes in addressing the current world situation. Who Rules the World? is pretty much what you’d expect if you’re familiar with Chomsky’s writings on politics. ![]()
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