@William Magee Thanks. Perhaps Mr Canuck Dave wouldn't have to have this simple statement explained if he had read the comment before he ask the question. Seems simple enough to me considering the context.
people dont want to know... some do... you... me.... most want to stay asleep in their make believe bubble of consumerism or whatever they call life... to each their own, but I want to see the world for what it is. I can't turn a blind eye or play naive, not in me.
Let me preface my main comments by stating that I read... I read a lot... I read and research hours and hours, daily....I am an "Empath".... I care about the world in general....I have hobbies, interests, and passions to the Nth degree.... Even when I exercise, and I do daily, because I need to stay healthy, in order to read lol...., I listen to lectures of all sorts of social media.. youtube and otherwise....I am a damn overused sponge for information... And I care an awful lot...so it has it's emotional toll..... Now to the chase.... I am so entirely impressed with Chomsky..... I know he had to be reading and researching on nearly a 24/7 basis....His depth of knowledge and his ability to decipher, understand it, and give it back to us, so that we have a better understanding of the world we live in....is no less than incredible. I am truly astounded at the depth of his research... He is obviously cross checking, validating, and networking his information on a number of levels .....What a great mind and force this man is....... I am humbled, and grateful he is still with us..... Noam Chomsky..My hat off to you Sir.
Cognitive Dissonance I would argue is the main problem in our societies. Violence, Depression, and suicide are symptoms of severe problems in the environment. If understanding our systems brings these problems than the systems are wrong. So, in order to reduce suffering in mass, we must fix our environments in our respective areas and learn to carry knowledge to others for use in their critical thinking.
Altruisminservice I read every word of this feeling like I was reading something I wrote; agreeing with everybody sentence every point every feeling. I love that someone else not only saw him in this way that I do as well - but that someone was able to word it so beautifully. I wish I could put how I feel & what I think down on paper like that. But anyways this Is just great & I actually think every word of it should go on a shirt - possibly with a faded version of the picture of Chomsky shown in this video.
@@ishtlutz1261 you mentioned; " I wish I could put how I feel & what I think on paper like that"... You just did my friend....And I thank you for your kindred spirit.
I don't think he was doing it 24/7. I think he was just a genius. It is rumored (maybe in a biography?) that he could get through a 400 page book in one evening but still learn enough from it to be able to cite from its footnotes.
@@m12327 Yes....And to keep it real, I don't believe Chomsky was always right.... however, he was right more often than not... Hey, speaking of reading, I just finished a bunch of books, and if you are up for any.... Check out Dark Money, by Jane Meyer, and Democracy in Chains by Nancy Maclean..... And I really enjoyed "The People, No...... by Thomas Frank, outlining the history of populism from 1890 to present.... Frank illustrate how the black and white farmers came together to challenge power.. Much the same as MLK and Fred Hampton preached....Sanders sure let us down...but then...with the powers to be, capable of anything with a history of assassination...Maybe he had no choice... In any case... Populism won out in 1933 with FDR and reigned under his "four" terms until his death... The scourge of Neoliberalism has ruled for the past 50 years with painful predator capitalism, extreme inequality, and obscene ultra wealth of the few over the many.... Let's hope the pandemic helps to break its back.
always a pleasure to listen to Dr. Chomsky, especially the fact that you tell it like it is without the usual 'doublespeak language' that most love to come up with to 'sugar coat' deception and lies or to sensationalize things for an agenda.
Even watching this makes me feel like a gullible drone. The very fact I have RU-vid, that I tolerate the advertorial for tenous needs, the emptiness of digital thrills, the dead end of information exchange. Please God, give me my cave of solitude, safe in the knowledge that I'm not being bullshitted. Watching this makes me hopeful, yet despairing that no-one else seemingly gives a shit. BTW I slave for the oligarchy. Help.
Keep reading, keep searching, keep questioning everything. The struggle is well worth it. And find people who share similar points of view; they're out there you just have to keep looking :)
+arstarstarst arstarstarstarst I work outdoors all day. There lies the problem. One must engage with the fake world as it impacts so destructively with the natural world.
I know how you feel. Trust me, I've been battling with this for ages. I've been trying to find anarchist groups around the UK to join but apparently they've been considered just as dangerous as a terrorist group by the MET, which probably would explain why they're not around (even though it actually doesn't promote violence etc, it just seeks to question power). The only thing you can do is to try and join more mild movements like the Green movement or whatever and help in more specific but isolated ways.
engage in conversations with people, question their fakeness (in a curious manner of course) so that they themselves question their worldview and change for the better. you won't get anything out of being a detached misfit. be an involved and active misfit like professor Chomsky.
“. . .even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one’s tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology. . .” -Arthur Koestler, “Janus: A Summing Up” “We may be genuinely puzzled as to how people could obey commands that seem both bloodthirsty and stupid. Puzzlement can vanish when we realize that in the eyes of their perpetrators the hideous crimes of history are not hideous crimes at all, but acts of loyalty, patriotism and duty. From the vantage point of the present we can see them as hideous crimes, but ordinarily from that same vantage point we cannot see the crimes of our own governments as hideous or even as crimes.” -Don Mixon, “Obedience and Civilization”
But is corporation’s participation in wars, conflicts (and the further benefit they get) or their leading role in wage oppression and control of monopolies and undemocratic participation in politics considered as selfish individual crimes or unselfish loyalty crimes? I think there is simply no excuse for crimes, no matter if made with unselfish motives like nation, dinasty, religion, political ideology or with selfish ones like suppression by the coercion of the system of of the rest of individuals, like the monolithic power and hegemony of capital. Capitalist democracies, as long as corporations have the same or more power than governments, are simply not democratic.
I asked noam noam chomsky to give me some advices to finding truth. He gave this. 1) Find and understand a problem. 2) Develop pathways to find a solution which means that have a plan for the purpose of finding and differentiating sound information from unsound information. By sound information i mean facts and truth out of those facts. 3) learn from mistakes.
" The choice of topics, the shaping of information, the basic assumptions, and so on fall within a fairly narrow spectrum which tends to be highly supportive of state and corporate power." -Noam Chomsky, about the Media: #Media #Mafia
At 3:48 Chomsky talks about "the technique of control" which is absolutely drawn from Foucault, Deleuze. Seems he wasn't so dismissive of those thinkers after all. In fact I think his whole later work is largely an extrapolation of the best aspects of their work - for which I am grateful as the original explorations they did were very difficult to understand. I'm just sorry Chomsky had to dump so heavily on those French authors he came to emulate and resemble. Thanks so much for posting this.
Is cognitive dissonance that hard to fight? the only problem I would have is I would feel disgusted with myself and wouldn't be able to handle the charade. I think that's practically why I don't fit in very well and most people seem to think I'm a terrible person because I don't keep up with the 'fair-do-well' farce society expects of us.
I think Chomsky meant when someone starts being rewarded for going along with the elite even if they don’t believe in it to begin with, it becomes a slippery slope thereafter. Not to sound patronising btw. But the experience you mention on a personal level, I can relate to that too. Here in the U.K., we just live a very fearful life, always scared of being the outsider in the workplace or unis etc.
When you're that weird individual who says things at work he doesn't beleive to climb the ladder and realised how evil he is not also likes the money and funds anarchist activities.
I agree capital flight IS a huge problem. It's why to reform you need an entire framework so it can be tranaformed resonably and you actually would have to reach people. And it's not as bitter as he thinks on many levels. For one in my peronal expirience people actually are at least on some level quite aware of there's belives and do hold the contradicing belives still, but feel discompfort at that. It's very sad. But it's good in that often it's done for the good of others too. I take a lot of hope from that.
One would think a not-for-profit medium would get rid of the entire machinery but that opens up a question of the cost of publishing and if you get enough in donations.
I love that bit. I can’t help but think the rise in mental health is intrinsically linked with the dishonesty that’s so deep rooted in our society. People think, behave and talk in a way that’s completely unnatural to the individual, we’re so indoctrinated.
Nature also has its way of ruling over humans by demanding them to find food, better cooking methods, shelter, etc. So it becomes a matter of organizing productivity without despotic leaders and still keeping the continuity of production (which in a Capitalistic system it is ensured by wage labor and the rat race).
In my opinion, the damage is much more extensive and profound than that. It becomes tragically obvious when one analyses the language that is used. It’s not a criticism addressed to you, we all do it in various degrees because our minds have been programmed. Take for example the term ‘asset’ or ‘productivity’. They are technical terms that should not be applied to people. People are not ‘assets’, they are not tools. What do you do with a tool? Use it and discard it when gets ‘broken’ (another term that infuriates me- there are NO ‘broken’ people) or when you don’t need it anymore. And it’s not just in the realm of business or government, it’s infected even the psychology sciences with their pop off- shoot of ‘self- help/enlightenment’. The realisation of the extent of damage is very difficult to bear and frightening.
So basically, capitalism forces us to conform by the very social structure it exists and imposes by it's existent on us(the population) and there is very likely little choice. Or just that, this is how fascism works once it's in place/or in power.
shipcity1 Alfie kohn (?) wrote a book about this. The incentive idea starts from childhood, if it’s unregulated the child is spoilt & it then carries on into adult life in the workplace. It’s just at that point the employer holds the employee hostage rather than the spoilt child holding the parent hostage.
The difference between this two system is the tollerance. In fascism there no space for tollerance, in capitalism tollerance is accepted, so this state of apparently freedom can be used to control the population in a way that's simply more efficient, less direct and extremely subdol: this is the key to keep a strong control of a large group of people: you (the system) have not to seems necessarly dirty, you have to seems quite moderate. This is clarly the perfection of the use of this system, in reality very often quite few people notice the injustice they are observing and living into, but if you can control in a definitely way the information and the economy, everything will remain solidly stable again; and then, you can tolerate that group of people to keep complaining, because you would make sure that no one hears them, whatever way it takes to do it, as long as it looks random, and finally slowly muted.
Chomsky's lack of attention and thought put out to American ideology, his insistence that ideology is not to blame but systems and private pragmatic power interests, is actually what I consider part of why he had the blind spot toward the rise of Putinist ideology later on in life. Like Mearsheimer, they seem quick to sweep the powerful role ideology has to play under the rug in favour of this idea that power is behind rational pragmatic private interest. In fact, I'd say arguing power follows just this function is more optimistic, utopian and idealistic even, because it assumes that, no matter how evil the powers of America may be behind the secret screen of private interest, they are at least rational and not following irrational ideology, the ''indoctrination and deception'' phase of the American elite, is somehow always explained by an external social adaptation to not being excluded or falling out of praise, a purely pragmatic explanation which might imply that they choose to have that indoctrination not from an inherent power of the indoctrinating idealistic material itself that would alone be enough to motivate the fanatic not concerned with worldly possessions, but out of social calculations of personal advantage and gain and prosperity, which is itself an America way of viewing the motivations for the workings in and outs of the world if I'd ever say there had been one. Material wealth is not enough in the world, but power desires to grasp history, which is why like in the case of Himmler he cites at the end, total commitment to fanaticism does not serve any further ultimate goal in pragmatic accounts of warfare but is more attached to the idea of ''noble'' spiritual truths of an enlightened and superior civilization. To put the question that's been put before again; ''Is it elites and those in power who evilly lead societies into wars, or is it whole societies of evil people that lead themselves into war?''
Pacific Alliance Exactly.There's a generation brought up by utube that don't get the comprehensive difference by reading his books.He's been remarkably accurate all the way back to the "New Mandarins".
I’m 19 I need to make most Noam ideas prictical or may be want to be most useful what track should I stick to on schooling job track currently.. start up won’t lead to usefullness either
The studies exist, but they are forgotten over time with the aggravating factor that it is not good for them to be read by the public. It is necessary to distract the audience. If you are a student ask your teachers, talk to colleagues, there will certainly be someone who knows where to get them. But don't ask anyone, you don't want to be marginalized. Old studies on propaganda I usually get them from colleagues in the field of sociology, there is always someone fascinated about it who keeps them and studies but they are hard to find! I don t have any studies that Chomsky talks um the video... Sorry ..
If you wanna see how to live life properly, take a look at Diogenes. Dude knew how to do it. The alternative, simply put, is wagecucking for the rest of your life, praying to lords above whose existence cannot be verified that one day, one day, you will be freed.
i know someone who has a dog who doesnt "sit" in order to get his treat or fetch a ball every time its thrown in the park.....should i call the police?
than how can you explain that sometimes the change comes within. we can argue that the change is not necessarily as much wanted. but the change sometimes comes from within with the condition that there is a pressure from outside. there is plenty of examples like after the death of franco in Spain, USSR with yeltsin.
The masses are inert and resistant to any change. There has not ever been a ‘revolution’ ie change from ground up. Before social media there were ‘agitators’, now we have ‘influencers’ who stir the shit. Some might argue that they must use the same propaganda (albeit ‘anti- propaganda’) methods to ‘wake-up the mobs’ for their own benefit. The same argument is used by those who say ‘we know religion is a lie, but an useful one’. No. The ends NEVER justify the means. And from a psychological perspective cognitive dissonance fosters individual mental illness, not just social ills.
Really ok did you ever hear a democrat deviate from what they proselytize,and would you dare? You think I could get a job with them if i don't tell them what they want to hear regarless of truth or anything against their partisan agenda?
Why does he always bash Stalin? Stalin's bodyguard said that Stalin was humble and kind. Apparently, when people were waiting for the bus, Stalin would pick them up and give them a ride.
Hitler’s bodyguards probably thought he was a nice guy too. Does that mean we have to trust his bodyguards? Or maybe we should look a little further than arm distance. I really can’t understand your reasoning here. A rapist can give someone a free ride, does that makes him a moral person?
Stalin has killed millions of its own citizens by creating famine and he also caused a genocide in Ukraine 1933 by creating a false famine and export their food to the USA.
@@serpentzachary1340 The US government poisons it's own people with processed food, well as the rest of the world with the American standard diet! Only difference, it fuels Big for profit health care, Big Pharma and the stock market!
Organised religion such as and specifically organised christianity and such as and specifically organised islam are built-based-and-bound to a by-gone era and are a dying industry of course salafi/wahhabi sunni muslim/islamic mosques is a booming business since it's officially/formally federal/national/unitary government of saudi arabia-financially-funded and officially/formally federal/national/unitary government of qatar-financially-funded but ultimately unfortunately not this century but over year's-and-decades decades-and-centuries centuries-and-millennias weak-mind's and ill-willed people/person's won't fall for the right-wing politically-correct group-think of this century which in essence is right-wing identity including nationalism
Expand operations prioritise profit and maximise production or expand-and-automate operations maximise profit and prioritise production yet in the black-market they have to moderate their interest's-and-issues/care's-and-concerns/woe's-and-worries against the other party (ies) interest's-and-issues/care's-and-concerns/woe's-and-worries to avoid-and-avert physical violence otherwise common/mutual safety-and-security the police-force/internal military-force or military-force/external police-force will be the reluctant-and-hesitant regulatory body
+Justin Jameson Rarely do I post 3 or more replies but you restrict supply not prohibit supply and reduce demand for controversial-and-contentious commodities
+Justin Jameson The great event that is happening but protracted is that owning-and-organising the heart's-and-minds of your citizen's/civilian's/resident's/constituent's/subject's is difficult when both organised religion such as and specifically organised christianity and such as and specifically organised islam are declining/decreasing hammeraging member's/supporter's/believer's/follower's and marketised/commercialised/merchant mainstream mass media both aspect's of the political-legal-economic apparatus used to convey factlet's-and-factoids are collapsing under their own weight must anger the investor's to no end leaving investor's to own-and-organise both the political-legal-economic establishment for the safety-and-security apparatus such as and specifically the police-force/internal military-force and the military-force/external police-force agent's of the state/government/public-sector authorised to use physical violence when-and-where deemed an adequate-and-accurate appropriate-and-accordingly measure/response and the mint or the print since many-and-most segments of society are moving/changing/progressing/regressing from coin's/coinage to cash and now many-and-most segments of society are moving/changing/progressing/regressing from cash to cashless and continue to own-and-organise the corporation's/conglomerate's
