Very good, and actually, that's the point that Chomsky was making. If you are powerful, letting people decide is intolerable, so you have to take Democracy and Freedom and subvert them into a giant misinformation campaign, limit the allowed thought (i.e. willfully ignore possibilities and distract people with a narrow range of options), distort the truth, etc.
It's actually kind of funny, but when democratic socialist George Orwell wrote 1984 as a commentary on how Communism was the worst of all systems (and it is), I don't think he realized how necessary these Orwellian concepts of doublethink, thought policing, newspeak, the memory hole, etc, also bare out in liberal democratic capitalism. It's truly amazing how these authoritarian ideologies come about and play a huge role in our so-called democratic process. Democracy, in American right now, is largely an elaborate ruse to make people feel connected to US government, but with elections like 2016, the curtain gets lifted and things tend to change slightly after that. So we'll see. I'm pretty disgusted with the Democratic and Republican parties and corporate media right now. They're pretty despicable institutions all around.
