What he calls inevitabilism, Chomsky referred to as "manufacturing consent": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

What he calls inevitabilism, Chomsky referred to as "manufacturing consent": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent Sure, Chomsky was specifically talking about how the underlying systems of US mass media manufacture consent among the governed but inevitabilism lies at its core: a thought-terminating cliché that eliminates all alternatives from even being legitimate subjects of the debate.