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Noam Chomsky Quotes About Worship
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.
My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).
You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what the reality is; they concocted an image that you worship.
There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.
We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.
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