Quotes From "Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military In The New American Century" By Stan Goff

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Even scientists and academics are frequent prey to the delusion that reality is reducible. Fear, deep and wide, is the secret motive force of much human behavior, and I think reduction is often rooted in fear. Passing over fear, I think, is the beginning of every liberatory project. Stan Goff
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American culture is a sheep culture–long on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity. Most still believe that individuality is based on which model car you like best–commodity identity, a selection of personalities on a shelf full of products approved by the Federal Identity Administration. I’m a Taurus aspiring to be a Lexus. Stan Goff
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The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia).... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti. Stan Goff
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I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command. Stan Goff