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To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
Todd Gitlin
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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
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I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
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The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
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Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
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Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
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