This is scary... Noam Chomsky gets a good review in the Telegraph, of all places. James Flint apparently thinks the Fourth Reich may not be too far away:
Chomsky argues that the situation is now so extreme that democracy is no longer functioning in America. What has taken its place is a corporate totalitarianism that routinely deploys Orwellian double-speak to clamp down on society...
There is a plot against America, says Chomsky, and it is real. He reminds us that "the rapid descent to the depths of barbarism took place in the country that was the pride of Western civilisation in the sciences, philosophy and the arts; a country that before the hysterical propaganda of World War I had been regarded by many American political scientists as a model of democracy". In "Failed States", he argues, cogently and convincingly, that a similar drive towards repression is happening again.
As it's not April 1st, I'm not quite sure what to make of this. Did some disgruntled ex-employee sabotage the software on the books pages?
UPDATE: If you're surprised to see Prospect editor David Goodhart praise NC on the book's cover, Oliver Kamm reveals the truth about the, er, selective quotation. Whoever was responsible has a great future as a West End theatre publicist.
"There is a plot against America, says Chomsky, and it is real."
Freemasons?
Posted by: mike | Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 07:35 PM