External Authority

Counterpunch has an excellent interview with Noam Chomsky Which contains a very nice quote:

And, again, there are a lot of illusions about this -- in the media, too. Tom Wicker is a famous example, one of the ‘left commentators’ of the New York Times. He would get very angry when critics would tell him he’s conforming to power interests and that he’s keeping within the doctrinal framework of the media, which goes back to their corporate structure and so on. And he would answer, very angrily -- and correctly -- that nobody tells him what to say. He wrote anything he wanted -- which is absolutely true. But, if he wasn’t writing the things he did he wouldn’t have a column in the New York Times.

That’s the kind of thing that is very hard to perceive.

People do not want,or often are not able, to perceive that they are conforming to external authority. They feel themselves to be very free, and indeed they are, as long as they conform. But power lies elsewhere. That’s as old as history in the modern period. It’s often very explicit. M

I've said similar things in the past and it is the basis for my critiques of so called "diversity" efforts in which it is often the fact that the black face (or more often the case, the female face) that is wanted but not the critical analysis or completely different worldview of the black activist that is wanted. Integration suffers from the same issue of "power lies elsewhere" again the entire point is to make Negroes think like the group they are to be integrated into rather than the larger group coming to terms with it's negative racist ideologies.