Chomsky on the Limits of Acceptable Debate

I have been pretty swamped with life lately. I have go about 10-15 posts unfinished posts of my own actual thoughts, writing and ranting, but I can't seem to finish them to my satisfaction. So I will just post this quote by Chomsky that I came across on a list-serv. This pretty well sums up political debate in America today, yesterday, and probably unfortunately tommorow.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum -- even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate" [Noam Chomsky].