I found the movie Manufacturing Consent to be quite fantastic. I found Chomsky’s insights to be very much along the lines of Karl Marx in that he felt that people do not need to be just’ cogs in the machine.’ The fact that he promotes socialism to the degree he does make Chomsky one of my new heroes in the world of Sociology. Chomsky says we need to “seek out forms of authority and challenge their legitimacy.” I wish it were that easy, in order to successfully strike out against capitalism people need to be aware that they are buying into something that is the absolute opposite of democracy, even though we all delude ourselves into thinking we live in a democratic world. “When people can’t control people by force, you have to control what people think.” This statement says it all, thus giving justification to our collective “naive faith.” I love Chomsky!!!!
