Fortunately, Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics at MIT, is an outstanding exception. Over the course of some thirty years of dissent, his tireless effort has undoubtedly made a major personal contribution in exposing capitalist hypocrisy. It was Chomsky, after all, who, in 1979, wrote the very first article in the US focusing on the Western-backed bloodbath in East Timor, so laying the basis for the global resistance movement. Chomsky reports that the US population is overwhelmingly opposed to just about everything proposed by both Democrat and Republican parties.
Policy is designed by, and for, multinational megacorporations, 'incredible private tyrannies.
So long as people are worrying about the dangers of big government, and feeling apathetic or hostile towards all politics, private power can continue to drag us back to the dark ages divided and conquered. Chomsky has had relatively little to say about the environment, although the implications should be clear enough. His main concern has been that the economic and political system standing over us is driven by short- term profit. To read any book of conversations with Chomsky is to connect with a great and humane mind. We cannot help but be infected by Chomsky's energy and alertness.