I've been enjoying Chomsky's book and thinking about institutions and all that.

Do you think there's a sort of pluralistic institutionalism going on? I mean we have all these institutions that our using and abusing their power over society. There's a bunch of them, though, and they must have conflicting interests. That's not always the case. The Communist Party in Russia didn't really have any competing organizations.

Even within the government you've got competing institutions. ABC competes against CBS. I don't know if this is a valid or important point. But it seems important to mention. So if these institutions are the players in the political arena, they don't all share the same interests and are not all working towards exactly the same goal. There must be conflicts.

I'm not much for conspiracy theories and I don't think Chomsky is a conspiracy kind of guy. But I he is arguing that all these institutions or power brokers are holding all the chips, is he also saying that they are all working towards the same goal? That would then seem kinda conspiritorial.

We should get this in the blog.