Chris Hedges: "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" 

nothing changed and things only got worse with the identity politics

@@elianamckee It's distracting all of us from what actually has to be done to create a better future. It's truly sad.

The identity politics makes for an easy game too be played, one that can be easily played - and used - by the people in power: media, politicians, celebrities, capitalists. They'll look good, vitual signaling in their expensive outfits,, they'll be able to keep their fancy positions and nothing will actually change that much.

He refers to 5 trillion in debt. TODAY WE ARE AT $30 Trillion!!!!!!

@@denniseelman9731 when was politics in this country not tied to identity? Not saying you do this, but many critique identity politics as some new phenomena of the political Left when identity has always been a mainstay of American politics.

More like a false one

@@theclericbeast4603 sorry, we are so many times misguided by allowing ourselves to be brainwashed by the so called elite.

He changed - BIG TIME! He abandoned the working class on all things COVID once the lock downs were declared ... he won't go near it, he won't touch!

@@douglascarlson9006 he's not your governor, president, Senator ot House rep. FYI he speaks out look up the infor

@@dangale3220 for any takeaways, it's up to you to decide. it's a free world remember. nothing is being forced down your throat grab a book and read

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Agree with this conversation

@@robertcarpenter7486 I first saw Chris Hedges on Democracy Now 8 years ago. I was frightened and angry and now cannot unsee what he revealed. How we must fight fascism because they are fascists. We are mice squeaking against an avalanche...but squeak we must...

Is this great thinker still on thee planet?

_good you're catching up!_

@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 or catching on ?

nole 89 trump supporters those are the ones who will dismiss Chris hedge

If they have a verbal intellectual bilge filter quite easilydeny. With a filter anyone can see hedges is an intellectual hillbilly who didn't have enough attention as a child. He is the cure for insomnia.

If the majority of Christians were more like Chris here, as an agnostic, I would not fear them so much.

I JUST DID

Because 58:09

You do know he's talking about celebrity culture, which is almost entirely in support of the Democratic Party.

@@cwo2mdfay I don't think you hear what Mr. Hedges is saying. @Lisa is absolutely correct.

and why we have biden

We fetishize demagogues.

@@cwo2mdfay Celebrities are more likely to be left wing. I feel like the people more likely to be celebrity obsessed though are from the right.

A brave voice, alone not enough, yet not enjoined by others.

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Loved his quote from St Augustine. Used twice today in communications.

Me too. I couldn't bear the bullying and cruelty. I found it intolerable and spoke up. My colleagues all turned their backs. I kept my dignity. My doctor said, the workplace is an unbelievably violent place.

I just got out of college and started working and I’m amazed the amount of bullying and sociopathic behavior that’s rampant in the workforce. People are afraid to lose their jobs. They work in fear.

Do you guys work in an office environment? Sounds completely intolerable

My son wanted to put me in a mental institute. I wish I would have found Chris years ago to proof that I wasn't the only 1 foresee our future. We don't talk or see each other anymore.

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Hedges in brilliant, "Full Spectrum Dominance" by F William Engdahl (2009) does a great job explaining how the problems will be addressed, and it's absolutely horrifying.

Cindy S, none of this is funny---but it's all laughable.

If ONLY the world would listen to this great man? If only!!!!!!

This video is 8 years old and is more true today. The man is a modern day prophet. The end of the empire is almost here. 11/1/2020.

@@xqt39a It's older. I think it's from 2003

Amen !......maga hats and the small rube minds under them have no place there.

There is no future in american politics. It is evil Throughout. Listen to Chris HEDGES but will you act on his philosophy.

I love listening to him but wonder why there is no action as of yet to reform our corrupt government.

More so today.

Much worse.

@@brucepieroni9102 Well USA makes money and guns, it is all that you need in life to live good.

@DarkTagMaster @DarkTagMaster so, you're the part of the people Chris (the speaker) is talking about. Can't cope, so retreat to instagram and netflix? That's your strat? You are, indeed, doomed.

Wasn't this on 2003? This an almost 20 year old talk. 8 years ago was published in RU-vid. Carl Sagan talked about this in 1995, in his book "The Daemon Hunted World" Chilling, and yet, true. That book is 5 years away from its 30 anniversary.

@@lightwishatnight Wasnt Carl from Egypt, working in government institutions while peasants die

They wouldn't be politicians if they had integrity

@@Maxrepfitgm that's a crock. There are politicians with integrity, but not those who serve corporate interests. We need to stop pretending that government, the greatest power of the public, is something inherently bad. The government isn't corrupt because the government is too powerful. Our government is corrupt because the wealthy are corrupt and they have too much power over our government. The mindset that government in itself is bad is a mindset that fuels pro-corporate pseudo-libertarianism in the U.S. Our government has been corrupted by wealthy interests. So we need to further regulate it. Just as industry needs to be regulated so the wealthy don't abuse our natural environment, government needs to be appropriately regulated so the wealthy can't abuse our society. We need to remove money from politics.

Lenin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez gave similar speeches.

@@jimbodriver1015 Did that go over your head? . . . LoL

Yup it is too creepy to see remember what they did to poor child Jackson, I love playing musical instruments but I do it alone not to let profit everyone except me and those that helped me get poverty musical instruments.

Yes, because he's a church preacher.

He also gets paid over $20,000 per pop to talk about poverty and the elites.

@ CryptedSky -- Huh?

Absly,

It was long already true.

@Erasmus the blasphemous I agree. However, I didn't realize this from 2003.. That's pretty pescient

@@KingMinosxxvi its not, he talks about the obama administration

@@dankyden Ok that makes more sense. Thanks

He literally predicted trump at 41:44

I’m sorry but the case against MJ regarding children has yet to be proven. It’s a pity that the wise CH shamefully bought into the media hit piece on MJ. Everything else he states about MJ is unfortunately true.

+mind biz It was a direct quote from Chris Hedges 44:19

+mind biz See 'dream' sense 1.2 www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/dream and 'illusion' sense 1.1 www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/illusion

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Thant about sums up American

Platitudes? Spare me. Hedges is an insufferable pompous blowhard.

Mike it's pure cowardice and fear. But the desire to be gone from this hellish nightmare is real.

Mike D focus, too. Desire is prayer. Prayer is always answered. Be very careful what you are actually focusing on because that which you are desiring shall manifest in abundance.

Mike D sobriety. Chris has stayed quite sober in the midst of millions of luring intoxications.

Why not beleive in destroying the evil-dooers instead of destroying ourselves ?? It is wrong to kill the victims , and only right to beleive in delivering all of us from slavery they designed for us on this planet !!! They will surely loose and we will certainly win !

@@johnmiller7453 what hellish nightmare if I may ask? You live in a country where millions are dying to get to.

Yeah, he's not a fount of hope.

He said these words around the infancy stage of social media... it's only gotten much worse.

Kardashian syndrome

Oh yeah?

He's like a doctor who understands the disease but he can't or won't recommend the cure, working-class struggle.

@@DonDeering The cure is you. It's inside you. Consumer addiction and addiction to our outside, not what we have on the outside.

It was always true why do you think he was saying it then ?

2022! woo hoo

@@DanielAvalos02 Imperialism = Capitalism + others

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An this is 2022 he right 6 years ago, USA is going down starting with this OIL price increase and the SAUDIs and UAE 🇦🇪 refusal to comply , my opinion is this , America couldn’t even make people wear masks 🎭 , China or highly controlled states gonna win unfortunately

LOVE that quote. Thanks for sharing. :)

NO, HE IS NOT AS GREAT AS ONE WOULD THINK.

"encounted"???

"First you will be troubled. Then you will be amazed. And then you will rule over all." Jesus Christ in The Gospel of Thomas. Chris is "troubled," because he has seen behind the curtain WITHIN the illusion. But when he eventually sees behind the curtain OF THE ILLUSION (that is this temporal world), he will be "amazed" that The Mind that is All ("God") is in total control. He will then OVERCOME this world, and will rule in Unity with The Mind that is All. This is the journey of EVERY soul. A teacher and prophet of God has spoken in these "end times".....the end of one cycle of time before the beginning of the new. Give me a "click" if you want to know more...

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I’m sorry but the case against MJ regarding children has yet to be proven. It’s a pity that the wise CH shamefully bought into the media hit piece on MJ. Everything else he states about MJ is unfortunately true. Be that as it may, because of his unproven MJ child charges against history won’t embrace this speech as a standard of our times, imho.

@@RashidLanie8 i know, right? he really goes out on a limb here with Jackson, making all those assumptions, but he probably thinks O.J. Simpson is a killer too.🤷

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That *is* sad. We need pastors of courage.

Draw a small map/algorithm chart. This happened then it went here ; IF /Then/Go To

Feel the same here in Japan. Chris gves a grim but necessary critique of our collective illusions and conceits. I like Jimmy Dore and Russell Brand too ... but the gravitas of court jesters just doesn't compare.

@@stevemartin4249 i suggest Michael Parenti as well

+Kevin Pacifico Gonzaga ...."and become slaves to ourselves..." Argh... we cant win....

@José Pedro Coelho lol

You are already enslaved by defense industry brainwash.

@@TheSoulBlossom See the English interview of Dr.Judy Mikovits on www.brighteon.com/channels/patrice

Step 1 identifying the creeps enslaving u s with unnecessary debt

Awesometacular is a fun word

This IS the Kali Yuga.

We await Kalki

@@AbtinX Yes

What is that?

@@shamanamarshall1469 it's the end, and the beginning

Yeah, he's up there with Lenin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez.

@@RedRider1600 Again an ad hominem without attempting to counter the argument. Try harder.

Chris is 5' 9" at best.

His bravery, to stare into the abyss and honestly report what he has seen, is second to none.

@@RedRider1600 Ride This. 👊

If he was a real truther, he wouldn't be allowed to give speeches or write books. Just more controlled copposition.

Nobody's listening. Nobody understands anything. Nobody cares.

LICENTISM West’s licentism is a social system based on licentiousness. Asia’s fengjian culture is that based on safeguarded progress, In opposite to fengjian culture’s harmony with nation, licentism has manifested itself in uncontrolled rebellions. Human civilization has been sustained by fengjian for thousands of years and is still no end in sight. But licentism arrived on the scene around the founding of America, and, the way licentism is rebelling against everything in sight made it clear that humanity wont be last very long. The emerging situation in Ukraine is shaping up to be the beginning of the end of the struggle between licentism and fengjian. This struggle’s root can be traced back to the two world wars we fought. Mass destructions aside, it’s the war of propaganda that distinguished the two factions, licentism ahd fengjian, of the wars. But the potent lies in the propaganda have cursed humanity to the current status of approaching an unavoidable mutual annihilation. The licentism faction called themselves liberal democrats. Being the victors, as only to be expected, they also won the rights to designate the fengjian faction nations with derogatory names, such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Japan, communist China, and in recent days, Muslim terrorists. Then after the WWII ended, the licentism nations was able to justify themselves, with the underlying meaning of these derogatory names, to station troops on and militarily contain the fengjian nations. However, the most troublesome schemes by the licentism nations is the continual instigations of what we now know as color revolutions, aimed at regime-changing fengjian nations. The two most major color-revolution attempts by America were the 1989 on China and 1991 on the Soviet Union. China survived, but Soviet Union didn’t. And what a difference it made to the two largest fengjian countries! Even the most powerful alliance in the fengjian faction, Russia and China, is no match for the color-revolution scheme of the licentious liberal democracies of America and Europe. Base on the negative impacts around the world of color revolutions, it is a generally agreed, as demonstrated by the recent effort by Russia to liberate itself by way of Ukraine’s latest color revolution, that sooner or later there will be a showdown big enough to bring an end to human civilization. And there is no way out. Why? We lied too much, especially in name callings, particularly regarding those names, nazi, fascist and terrorist. Who, in history’s truth, are they? They are nothing but the past fengjian nations who have individually resisted the onslaught of licentism, namely Germany, Japan and the Muslim countries. Nevertheless the major stakeholders of fengjian have always been: China, Russia, Japan and Germany. THEY CONSIST OF AN OVERWHELMINGLY MORE POWERFUL GROUP THAN THE LICENTIOUS LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE. In 2007 Japan was found to be “not guilty” in WWII, based on the Japanese Imperial Army’s war records, that America finally decided to release 70 years after the war. And the good behavior of Germany, in contrast with the equally bad behavior of America, especially in terms of the same kind of lying propaganda being exhibited in its support of Ukraine’s current color revolution, is injecting doubts into the question: “How evil are Nazis, fascists and terrorists?” Shouldn’t that all fengjian be united to liberate their own kind. Russia has started in Ukraine against Europe and America. China has implied “no ceiling” in its support of Russia. Isn’t it time to formally send a message to Japan and Germany that if the four major fengjian countries unite, it will be the game-over for America’s dream of world domination?

But they had to pay for it, now YOU pay for the distraction with your own money, brilliant.

We have cage fighting and NFL football.

Yes and our current politicains are doing the same.. slaughtering people in plain sight

What did they realize hoss tell me southerncross100 tell me

@@edduardozamboga4082 if people aren’t distracted they’ll go after their real enemy, their leaders.

Mjusiq™ this country definitely will not. It’s divided against itself. The family unit is destroyed and corporate America is destroying religion. No morals and all forms of hate and civil unrest. The lies are catching up with them. We were fools to believe

If you are still here in Sept 2020. No, nobody has been saved. If anything, it's a lot worse now...

2020 here. We have the answer and that answer is Yes.

Halliburton lobbyists and rich people.

how? like, HOW? easy, theses a little button next to the like button, you just click it, its pretty simple really.

Or put another way - The best president the US should have but never has.

justmadeit2 He speaks pure truth we are kept from hearing, daily.

I think there are about 5 left in the US :)

@@jimbodriver1015 Guess I'll have to listen again. Thought he referenced those dates. Just because it was posted at a certain time doesn't mean it happened then.

Sad situation🥲

@Louis Johnson God is not an additive.

@Louis Johnson I do believe in God. That's why I said he's not an additive.

@Smunstu StinkymonsterGod just is. Can't be added or subtracted.

@Smunstu Stinkymonster okay.

All we have to do is take it back by doing what the constitution says to do.. specifically in the bill of rights section.

@@diannh2894 these people dont agree with the constitution

"This talk was taped on January 22, 2003."

@@MrFreddyFrisco Obama wasn't president then & Michael Jackson died in 2009.

@@mE-zx7pt Good catch.

Talk show host! He was a war correspondent! He spent seven years covering all the wars Iraq Afghan Syria and Yugoslavia he speaking the truth

TOO prescient!

On the money

Revenge is a necessity

@Frank Sears True. But, I think he is referring to the Rush Limbaugh’s and other right wing extremist talk show hosts.