Right on Glenn!
On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:
> From the Guardian:
>
> "One very common tactic for enforcing political orthodoxies is to malign the
> character, "style" and even mental health of those who challenge them. The
> most extreme version of this was an old Soviet favorite: to declare political
> dissidents mentally ill and put them in hospitals..."
>
>
> "...But what is at play here is this destructive dynamic that the more one
> dissents from political orthodoxies, the more personalized, style-focused and
> substance-free the attacks become. That's because once someone becomes
> sufficiently critical of establishment pieties, the goal is not merely to
> dispute their claims but to silence them. That's accomplished by demonizing
> the person on personality and style grounds to the point where huge numbers
> of people decide that nothing they say should even be considered, let alone
> accepted. It's a sorry and anti-intellectual tactic, to be sure, but a
> brutally effective one"
>
>
> Everyday, there are important specific issues to bring to an informed
> citizenry in the neighborhood. So why is this Glenn Greenwald analysis the
> most important topic for people to consider here in the upscale UCD village?
> Why are neighbors so terrified to engage in meaningful discussion about the
> power structures transforming the neighborhood, city , and country into an
> inverted totalitarian corporate state??? Is it only the censorship
> exemplified by UCneighbors, founded by the University of Pennsylvannia, which
> causes the silence of locals?
>
> I remember finding it amazing that neighbors would silently watch me face
> year's of personal attacks, while "community leaders" would never ever refute
> the truths I brought to the public!
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-chomsky-guardian-personality
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