Julian Casablancas Interviews Chris Hedges | S.O.S. Earth is a Mess 

My thoughts exactly. It was too damn short.

I've been keeping a playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PL5SLc77ffzGwGf2mtrpo0YtFDuwWO_RTf

I wish the "music" wasn*t there (except Bowie).

I’m watching other interviews and he’s amazing. I’m going to get some of his books and hope I can follow...he’s so smart

Well, he's written a bunch of books...

He's been interviewed on Rolling Stone before and it was a way better interview. It was on the 'Useful Idiots' podcast which is on Rolling Stone.

Absolutely!!! The US has a dark history which is not mentioned in history books. There is a myth that George Washington was this great man. However, he was a slave owner and the wealthiest man in the world. Also, this idea that we need to worship/idolize these Presidents is just ridiculous. I am glad that Chris mentioned Thomas Paine.The history books do not mention him as much as Paul Revere.. They like to claim that Paul Revere was the key figure for the American Revolution. Not true. This is a myth. Thomas Paine was the real revolutionary.

Great interview with a great man but can you get rid of the background music/noise please?

I also published this with him in it. Did an introduction.

@@noahitman985 I wonder if this interview, and its distracting format, is intended to camouflage those better interviews when people search etc

Are you shouting to be heard over the music?

The music spoiled it.

And the writings of MLK, WEB Dubois, Eugene Debbs.

Chomsky is old and washed up now , he don't know what he's talking about he reminds me of jordan peterson.

They did. But then they called them “radical marxists” and then dropped them off. A lot of Americans are allergic to learning about their own history except the propaganda fed to us by the owner class. The evidence is in the obvious amount of fantasy about about America that is consumed by the average citizen. Try this experiment: Ask anybody in your circle of friends or family how many Americans lost their lives fighting in WWII. Ask them now how many dead did the Soviet Union had during the same conflict? See what they say. Ask them then why we never mention the Soviet Union as an ally of the US during WWII. I taught a 20th century American History class in Baltimore to inner city kids, many of them immigrants from everywhere (Africa, Central America, Asia, Haiti, etc), so they are torn between the idea of America as a shining city on the hill and the shitty reality of it. I started the course showing then a photographic essay from the soldiers themselves. These kids sat during the whole thing and didn’t say a peep. Then they started to ask questions. Suffice to say that for 4 weeks these kids came to class eager to learn more and more. We didn’t look at the textbook once. I had to ditch that bitch from the start because all it says is propaganda. That made the course amazing.

@@gfarrell80 throw in Hannah Arendt

and Naomi Klein

You talk way too much

@William Frank I can't win

@William Frank Comment of the week!

Chris has a regular show on RT called on contact and utube has the segments.

😂 💚💚💚

I know! Time to GO HARD LOCALLY AND SPREAD IT GLOBALLY! Our local Boards of Education are a good place to start as every school district does panel research prior to purchasing next round of textbooks (however small a committee/non-advertised) prior to voting to adopt them. We can all get ourselves onto those panels as “residents of the community”, so we can sit right next to administrators and superintendents with equal demands from the community they serve! #forcethetruths

I thought the 'lonely' question was interesting.

@@labryon there is no reforming this system. It is too corrupt

At 5:47 The book Chris Mentions "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen is a great book!

colleges just teach marxist bs

At 16:45

@@merrycontrary3520 thank you

Kudos to the animal loving camera person!

Yes, it’s interesting. As if Nature (=a dear) concurs with what Hedges mentions about the Coup d'état and Julian is seen concurring by hitting his right knee with a fist (=he nails it) as Hedges follows by the mention of neoliberalism’s (=free-market capitalism) negative impact globally.

@@j_t_p LOLOL exactly my sentiment ... Hedges was discussing 'Corporate Savagery' as the beautiful deer entered into the background

So true.

Eh, that's the cliche.

@Elle G Um, I remember Jules saying he went to that school after becoming disgusted with his teachers not caring at all about knowledge...but the new school was just as bad. Julian would have loved total immersion academia, atleast right then

@Elle G No! It's just what I was thinking. I thought your comment was quite well-written

@Elle G 100%!! I attended a tiny college in the middle if nowhere and was friends with EVERY type of person, including a prince. As an only child, it really helped me understand people. If Julian hadn't met Albert there would be no Strokes. Albert's dad was a famous pop star so he knew it could be done- I really doubt the others would have had the nerve without Albert encouraging them. Side note: the first celebrity sighting I had when I moved to nyc was Albert! Wearing a suit and looking exactly like you'd want him to

No war but class war!

That's the problem: RS didn't put the music below the voice trax in their sound mixer. You would think a _music_ magazine wouldn't make such a boneheaded mistake.

it's horrible!

I had to skip each part with the music. Music is great, but it was completely misplaced in this video. What the hell were they thinking?

@@somkit9102 Some NYU graduate was 'experimenting' and trying to be HIP. You know...gravitas...

could the music be there to make automatic transcript difficult? it sure doesn't make listening any easier. i can't believe it's merely for atmosphere

i agree it is making me tune out

Getting the hang of it, timing is everything . . .

I think so too! He seems to have more control on this one

Hey fan girl Chris Hedges not this bozo. Pay attention.

@@paxwallacejazz What’s your problem? What’s this nonsensical comment?

I’m at your feet

Oh the illusion of democracy...bread and circus for all (weed and video games/porn for all - 2020 update).

Yeah, RS should know how to keep the sound clips UNDER the vocal track by now...

the music is total amateur hour

They wanted to play strokes or the voidz but due to copyright they had to stick with shit free music

Absolutely took away from the interview. Wtf was the point?

"I can't wait to interview one of my favourite all time intellectuals, Chris Hedges" *moments later* "So do u like presidents?"

Lmao he tried guys. He was freezing his nuts off -distracting perhaps

Yaaaaaa... that was... ugh.

@@Knifymoloko I heard Chris dropped out because he would have to drop teaching at Princeton

@@Knifymoloko yes! FREEZING ... much to do with the brevity of the interview I think.

The music is so bad, at times it's laugh out loud funny

@Apples McGillicuddy and shot

@@merfymac complete shit

Seriously? The background music, the setting, the audio were all good and fine. I think you are allowing yourself to get distrcted over minutiae. Go back and listen to it again, with an open mind.

@@danafarrar3583 Wow you're the only one who gets it. /s

reminds me of russell brand and jeremy paxman. some levity sometimes is needed, but yeah we shouldn't forget the realness

Ikr

Totally distracting from the interview. Makes it unwatchable for me.

annoying

The music is so people won't listen to it or hear what Chris is saying. The music is God awful. Is this interview posted anywhere with out a cyber punk atmospheric tech track garbage?

Come’On Bro, That’s Blaze Folely

The music is annoying in this context, Professor. I don't give a shit if it's Beethoven or whatever.

I have no idea who Julian is but he should be honered to be in Hedges presence

Lol, "messed with" does seem like the appropriate way to describe his interviewing technique.

@@paxwallacejazz makes great music

@@paxwallacejazz Are you too old or are you too young? The Strokes were everything in the early 2000s

@Elle G I had heard the name but not much else. He impressed me!

Funny how its always a group of people that amalgamate together to form corporate just makes ruining things for everyone easier.

Rage Against the Machine?

Not entirely sure if this is a joke- but check out the Strokes too, if you haven’t! :)

Check out The Voidz too!!!

I know right? In fact i only noticed it at the the beginning a little bit and thought it was actually pretty okay, i really dont know what everybody is bitchin about.

Except for: the military industrial complex, big insurance companies, Republicans, Democrats, MSM “journalists”, etc etc etc

@@tonyplow9882 Truth

I like a lot of what CH has to say and he's extremely intelligent and educated beyond normal academic channels. I duffer with CH on his views of Antifa.

@@tonyplow9882 They're not people, though, they're vehicles for evil

I couldn't believe it. How ignorant. I can't stand it. Bye.

@@watershedbarbie9685 Honestly what is the style Julian's going for here? Makes the SOS show look like bad performance art from the 1980's. Is this actually a _recent_ show? Anyway, I'm grateful RS interviewed Hedges.

Annoying af!! I couldn't believe it. And the point was? Also that 'alien' intro ...

@@keshavadasa I couldn't agree more.

@@celestepalm6949 You are so dead on it made me smile, lol.

100%

@Too many munsters no one volunteered to be lied to about WMDS. No one asked for MSM propaganda or bs partisan politics. Chill dude

@Too many munsters do you even watch Chris Hedges that’s pretty much his point

shitty music for sure. this guy's a tool

Sane economics in the seventies knew the Chicago School was a bunch of hogwash.

They still haven’t debunked the LTV they just stramanned it and replaced it with a theory that has less explanatory power.

I’ve always thought this to be the precise explanation for these alt-right figures; their critique makes almost intuitive sense to so many people but their grievances are led by charlatans like Peterson in the totally wrong direction. What you’re railing against is the neoliberal cooption of identity politics exemplified by the Democratic Party’s ‘intersectional’ approach to imperialism, which is, indeed, a truly loathsome phenomenon. If this distinction was more commonly recognised and the right stopped conflating the phenomenon with ‘cultural Marxism’ and SJW bullshit that might actually lay the grounds for an unprecedented level of solidarity and pose a legitimate threat.

Peterson never cleans his own room.

Jordan is a Leftist, his criticisms are of authoritarians and totalitarians whether Left or Right