The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of …

Noam Chomsky
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The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2004). Language and Politics, p.136, AK Press
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