Chris Hedges on his latest book, America: The Farewell Tour 

Agree. Tons of wisdom in that Hedges' quote. Breaking out of the "just world hypothesis" which frames every single Hollywood movie and TV series (not to mention organized religion) becomes very difficult after a lifetime immersed in this mental universe. But it is not impossible to escape. The fact that Chomsky, Malcolm, Jamal, Hedges, Wright, DuBois, Parenti, _et al_, have succeeded demonstrates people can--much like the character in the Flammarion engraving. Be well.

yeah he's great unless you're a raped 10 year old in need of an abortion in a red state.

Do you feel bad for whites in SA?

Colonial Virgina (before the U.S. existed) codified whiteness for the 1st time in human history. It punished poor / indentured whites for helping rebelling Black slaves. Race exists to keep us divided so that we never unite against ruling elite.

When Mother Teresa visited America she remarked that in many ways the poverty here is worse than in India. Spiritual and cultural poverty.

Agree. Why are there not more like him!?

@@PK-re3lu Why should there be?

Every time I take nap with RU-vid on, I wake up to Chris Hedges. Da fffkkk ...but it's cool :)

Close to the only one.. Ralph Nadar ?

Integrity? Not at all;( Compassion? I’ve rarely heard someone so filled with hate! He only sounds “intelligent”

@@JeepCherokeeful ABSOLUTE integrity

@@grannygotcha9809 noam chomsky is good. But modern day there is only one Chris hedges. Cannot b replaced.

It is revolting in its blasphemy that Hedges calls same sex marriage a Sacrament. Does he not understand that he will be required to give an account for such twisting of truth?

Well said. Stephen, Macclesfield, UK

Even their contracts have to state ENTERTAINMENT because they are not news.

But who in the hell finds what they doing entertaining? I find them boring, obnoxious and a total waste of time. If you think they are entertaining, then I am sorry, you have been brainwashed. It happens.

Not period. Most are CIA operatives!

There aren’t enough journalists left in this country to fill a VW bug. Just narrative minders and stenographers to power.

Don't know that speech.. Is there a link? Will check it out..

Chris Hedges is slowly but surely taking it to the next step.

@@MS-in3sl He's trying to compensate for the antagonist of an interviewer.

Only one party! With two fake wings.

Yeah, but do NOT equate them. As a gay man, I know intimately that there is a HUGE difference between the intolerant right wing bigoted GOP and the semi-liberal Democrats. They may be similar on economic issues/supporting the elite, but they could not be more different on social issues that face minority groups in the USA.

You are, of course correct. I am however disgusted with the mock democracy and the constraints on who or what we can vote for. I would call them pretend liberals.

@@ArizonaWillful They are playing good cop bad cop.....

Yes... but "Don't forget to vote!"

Uh huh... Same here

what? wtf? please explain. rsvp in YT. Thanks...

K, now what?

@@STScott-qo4pw because they all took the plea deal. Very few cases actually go to trial and often the accused will be convinced into taking the plea deal, even when they are absolutely innocent, by their very low level legal aide that is appointed to them because they can't afford a lawyer. Many people will plead guilty to something they didn't do and spend 5 years in prison because the high risk of losing a trial and getting 25 years.

An upright leader has no reason to be afraid of the people. It's almost like he was talking about rulers. And a healthy Society has no rulers.

@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 so, by your judgment, Ben Franklin. is full of sh*t, huh? Not by mine

Love that

@Sparky Runner Benjamin Franklin was driven by the necessity of his times, just as we must be "guided" by the necessities of our times, holding on to that which is good and utterly rejecting that which is not in our individual and community-collective interests.

thanks for that quote, hope many read it.

The media: corporate, or liberal: As with any ideological/political labels - the key is to maintain focus on the model in question, or proposed, rather than assessing any given entity on rhetoric, or 'claimed' affiliation. An example of the need for this rigidity: both DC and Moscow claimed the USSR was 'Socialist', albeit for very different reasons. Generally, the term 'liberal' isn't helpful. Do we mean socially liberal, economically liberal...? This may well be one area where it is better to adopt European frames of reference, as many of the pertinent thinkers were European, and maintaining an anchor in original thought is perhaps the best way of overcoming the muddying of ideological waters seen in the USA - which incidentally, had not been coincidental (consider the Neo-Liberal onslaught against Higher Education, the commercialisation of Education, the content included in courses etc. All of which is designed to not only provide profit, blighting generations with chronic debt along the way (one means of control), but to provide ways of controlling thought - narrative, over empirical, accepted envelopes, over free range etc.

Chris is far to educated to hang out with the Corporate media. He comes from morality and truth. The B.S. and lies are fear based keeing the Sheeple from uniting, and outing these fraud politicians. Wake up U.S.

EXACTLY Jeff Biss - the media is part of the corporatist system. Unfortunately I don't see it changing any time soon, if ever. SAD.

That has been a long conclusion. Want real news not controlled by Corporate Overlords, check out Professor Wolff, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, In The Now, Democracy Now, TYT, The Intercept, Now This News, The Real News Network, DW, etc.

@@solid1378 Good ones, some I've never heard of but will check out. I also check on Al Jazeera English, Guardian UK, Reuters, and local papers in places like India, Australia, and Canadian cities. I don't know how honest they are about their local news, but they are much better about ours then our "news."

Fake quote of course. Twain actually said “In this country we have one great privilege which they don’t have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That’s the finest asset we’ve got - the ballot box.”

The actual quote is by the American anarchist, Emma Goldman. “If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal”

@@CulinarySpy He never realized (perhaps because it did not apply to his time) that when your options on the ballot box are pretty much the same (Biden vs Trump at this particular moment), the ballot box can do nothing to save 'the people'.

My favorite quote and i put it on one of my tee shirt in hopes that it will awaken some.

Wow.

This is heartbreaking.

Forgive me. I’m being a bit thick. Do you mean this one. I love that quote. I’m reeling from the essence of what your man is saying🍀

They are the rebels as well as criminals

... unfortunately it is starting to look that way

Melvyn Gingell ahh the moral superiority of the far left ...

James Registe idiot I rail against the left and right - both are simple minded fools (like you, goat lover) who view every complex issue in black and white.

Yes, it’s called dichotomous thinking. And it’s ruining public discourse all around the world.

Hedges is not a legend. Andrew Carnegie was a legend. Do not be so obtuse and read some history. Chris Hedges is a cynic.

@@ardenritchie5722 Carnegie was a heartless exploiter. Hedges is a legend with heart. You're the cynic

con men like Chris will alway do that to the weak ):

@@alexgeronimo8331 Trump is the con man

@@alexgeronimo8331 If that makes him weak then you are an insect.

Years ago he brought me awareness with the sacrifice zones and more recently to activism. We must rest when we are dead; no time now.

@@alexgeronimo8331 2 YRS LATER WHERE ARE YOU ONE THIS???

I was thinking the same thing. Why is he not speaking at a University to the thinkers and future of this country?

I think it is because people do not want to think about this because they feel it is hopeless.

@Tom Martin. No, it’s because we live in a totally dumbed down amerika

Maybe the most know the truth but don't want to hear it.

It is remarkable evidence of how deep in denial are Democrats and liberal intellectuals. Cambridge, a liberal and heavily Democratic town, is arguably the intellectual capitol of the US. Hedges attended Harvard Divinity School. Yet the NPR affiliate can only convince 30 people to show up for one of the intellectual giants in the US? Pathetic.

No such thing as wise spending. Invest it wisely.

szymborska yeah - he's quite the (hypocritical) capitalist selling all those books ...

what is he supposed to do, give them away? I don't see him trying to corner the market and force other competitors out to become a monopoly. Nor do I see him exploiting prison workers for profit or trying to get rid of pre-existing conditions for sick people.

@@dannymandebo9507 such a foolish and tired argument

J H once again a far left tool who tells me I am wrong but not HOW I am wrong. When was it better? Answer!!!!

@@dannymandebo9507 What a demanding child you are. You could do with nap, so I'll tell you a story. In a magical world beyond our own, there is a garden of talking flowers. Bob, a tulip, notices one day that the sun is not as bright and everyone is getting hungry. "Maybe it's the shadow of the giant statue" he thinks, remembering that King Dandelion recently built a massive statue of himself to loom over the garden. Bon went out to and started to tell everyone this statue was making them starve. However, the flowers accosted Bob for standing tall and blocking their sunlight. They decried him for doing the same thing, albeit on a much smaller scale, as the statue. Bob was confused. He tried many other ways to spread the message, he held free talks, he posted videos of his talks online. But still, other flowers noticed that he too cast a very small shadow - he had too, everyone did, living on Earth after all. "We all cast shadows sometimes," Bob said "but clearly this giant statue casts one and gives us little in return. My issue is not shadows, but rationally discussing when and how we should allow them to be cast" But still, assholes in the garden called Bob a hypocrite. And eventually they all died from lack or sunlight, cursing Bob the whole time.

very very impressive mind. excellent speaker.

Art Studio Starbucks???!!! Lord. The irony.

Hedges is excellent

A man of great erudition.

For all of us.

Why do you have a 'favorite' thinker?

i wonder he's alive, too, but it's more someone in the US hasn't bumped him off yet.

One could add AA and other deceptions in the 12 step industry to the list along with magic jesus

The rules know lethargy is a goal.

I agree.

hey could tell me where in this video they speak about Pinker? i cant find that part! thank you.

@@pakalupapito1528 Why not watch it and listen , you will soon know.

yeah, along with Guys like Jordan Peterson which god knows why all these guys latch onto like theres no tomorrow....

@@mikecar52 , Yeah, Steve Pinker is drawn to good news the way Chris Hedges is drawn to bad news. Guess who gets far more media exposure. I'm interested in nutrition science. This has also effectively been corporatized over the course of the 20th century and is not trustworthy. There is a political push for vegetarian and veganism in the interests of health and "sustainability" that is not based on fact or science. (even Hedges has bought into this disinformation and propaganda). Anyone who promotes a plant-based diet enjoys far more media exposure. Michael Pollan, who wrote In Defense of Food has said, "Eat real food. Mostly Plants. Not too much." He is hailed as an authority of some type in mainstream sources. Gary Taubes, who wrote Good Calories, Bad Calories has also concluded, eat real food. But he would advocate an animal-based diet for most people. Taubes doesn't enjoy the same media profile (is often dismissed as a mere journalist, which is all Pollan is), even though he is more qualified than Pollan to talk on the subject of science as it would relate to nutrition.

Michael Kelly yes, waste your short life away in despair. How absurd...

Matthew Singh-Dosanjh agreed!!! He is a tool.

James Registe your goat is calling you - back to the mud hut. Egypt ... Bahahaha!!

James Registe - Hitchens paved the way for the commodification internet 'intellectuals' trade on. Peterson, Shapiro, Harris, all financially benefit from credulity based on libertarian ideology.

you are wrong

Which podcast fellow human. Would love to subscribe to the podcast

+CrzyFox It was the podcast version of the video; same conversation, no video. Lydon has a regular podcast, always very interesting, with highly intelligent guests. I don't have access to it right now. GOOGLE "Christopher Lydon" and see what you find.

+CrzyFox It's called "Open Source." Excellent guests, excellent host, the best.🎃

Ah yes, the renaissance where "the small number makes the large number work" ... a bit like... business as usual?

Not enough, anyway.

He just seems to enjoy the hell of it all too much. He's a bit of a fantacist.

The prison system is where you put unskilled, undesirable pop. Chinese workers not fat Americans without geds

@ Ursula Rue B Go away Russian Troll.

@Kathryn Foster-martin it's as if public executions were a thing again people will come out of the woodwork to cheer. Criminals aren't human anymore, including the ones that go back to society.

Slave camps

He has been disappeared from most of the mainstream news media.

I think we are getting the idea.

I know. I never dreamed that we would be in a pandemic and see our world the way it is now.

Le chat.....Vanish!!!!

That depends on where you choose to spend your future.

WELL NOT HALF AS CRAZY AS THE ONE IN THE WH!

I dunno...I could see him getting time

True

Unfortunately most of the population get all their information from the mainstream media and that's it unfortunately that media is owned buy a small very powerful and nefarious group of people and you obviously have no idea

@@rosssmith6775 oh...but I do. Sadly all of our country has been hijacked by billion dollar companies and both the right media and left media are are completely owned.

Hahaha lol. What did he do illegal again? I forgot. Refresh my memory.

From book?

@JRGJRG But he was telling the truth.

Oh for God's sake shut up. Chris hedges is not the only one aware

the real free entreprise

All tech innovations are oriented toward the hegemonic system of capitalist consumption and exploitation. They offer no solutions beyond (possibly) producing tools for sabotage.

@@thebrocialist8300 ? IT CAN BE USED FOR GOOD, LET'S FIND IT!

I like Pinker's haircut (and boots); but it does not matter one bit. I adhere somewhat to his -- very broad -- notions of progress, but his idea that all lives were brutish, nasty & short before the invention of the stock-market strikes me as nonsensical. You need explanations beyond mere stats; as well as a sense of the tragic.

@@High_Valley beautifully put. These types put down the hopeful the way the miserable put down the joyful.

Wow, I found embarrassing and very close minded his dismissal. Didn't expect that, thought for a self-righteous-christian Mr. Hedges lacked humility. And this is my issue with him, I like his arguments, his historical and political perspective but the righteousness and morality is off putting...nonetheless I keep watching and reading him.

@@monicaangelini3324 hmm I wonder about that too. He certainly seems dower, I wonder if he has a softer side at home. I find myself drawn to more pessimistic thinkers simply because many other public intellectuals just don't seem to acknowledge how bad some of the crisises we find ourselves in are. I'm thinking of the climate crisis and the monetary/economic crisis in particular.

@@Kid_Ikaris The manufactured climate crisis... sure.

Hope sir will not prevail. Action may have a chance. Your action is needed.What is your solution ? Your history share is the future without your help.

This is how US military is "liberating" Middle East and "liberated" many countries around the world, bombing them to middle edges. Supporting dictatorships all around the world, and still does.

Victor Klemperer lived indeed in Dresden. I've read his diaries 1918-1932 (Weimar period), 1933-1945 (Dritte Reich) , and 1945-1960 (DDR).

Won't happen, Chris is not interested in power, he's learned the lessons of the past!

Chris Hedges will not do that. He is working to function as a strong proponent within the liberal section of our society. And, per his accepted definition, that section of society is not meant to hold power, but to both critique and hold in check the power structures in the society.

He won't run. Im glad. We need an integral voice to help us navigate through th b.s.

...except Milton Friedman!