뭔가 생각하게 만드는 책 , <미국이 진정으로 원하는 것>. 그 중 "당신이 할 수 있는 것"은 공부하고, 생각하고, 행동하는 사람으로서 뭔가 잔잔히 느끼게 해주었습니다. 발췌문은 다음과 같으며, 첨부파일은 각주로 해설을 단 것입니다. 지금 내가 무엇을 할 수 있을까? 답이 여기에 있습니다.
What you can do
Noam Chomsky
In any country, there's some group that has the real power. It's not a big secret where power is in the United States. It basically lies in the hands of the people who determine investment decisions - what's produced, what's distributed. They staff the government, by and large, choose the planners, and set the general conditions for the doctrinal system.
One of the things they want is passive, quiescent population. So one of the things that you can do to make life uncomfortable for them is not be passive and quiescent. There are lots of ways of doing that. Even just asking questions can have an important effect.
Demonstrations, writing letters and voting can all be meaningful - it depends on the situation. But the main point is - it's got to be sustained and organized.
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organizations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.
excerpted from What Uncle Sam Really Wants
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