Interview by Michael Albert. February 2010. Chapters: 0:00 The Responsibility of Intellectuals 53:06 Science, Religion, and Human Nature 1:57:55 Education and Economics 2:51:31 The Political System 3:35:45 International Relations
I love this man and am forever indebted to him. After 9-11 he is one of the people who woke me up to the way the world works. Though his take on people like Foucault (another hero of mine who has done as much as Chomsky to explain the workings of the world) and the French intelligencia is disappointing. Yes there's some obscurantism there if you want, but even that is more like a specialized vocabulary with its own history and reasons for being. In any case, this guy is one of the greats and last of the true public intellectuals.
68 likes and 2,855 views says we Americans don't have the willingness to follow an extended discussion. Biting on Sound biting will be our unravelling. The Chompster is in top form in this interview. He hasn't gone down much in the last ten years.
It’s not so much about facts as it is about methods of thinking-AND the discipline to evaluate and organize facts according to a principled methods of thinking.
To be fair, 4.5 hours of his voice and the topic of objective self examination is a lot for anyone. Most people don't understand that you can intake media for a while and come back later. It's one thing to perform a relatively mindless task for 4 hours straight. It's another to hold awareness on our cognitive biases.
A wonderful article thank you for it. The truth is something so foreign to everyone. Noam Chomsky is someone who can look at reality and know the distinction between truth and non truths.
all the many various videos with NOAM CHOMSKY give a lot of information, this one is especially compact. i am happy my english is good to understand all of it. I BE A CHOMPSKYIEST and i never wanted to be one of these kinds of. But i will be a NOAMIST!!! Chomskyist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i am so very glad that he says it all, honestly sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovery glad.
Its funny that he called out NPR looking back today, seeing how the Atlantic council took that one over as well. He is still prescient today. His take on Haiti is also spot on...
I have a question Edward Snowden Be considered an Intellectual asset or a foreign body becomes a comprehensive editor. ...(How its made)... Domestically systematized radicalism is an adaptive backdoor ambridged is programming living in the nexus Well maybe two generational questions? How much does that privacy really cost? Information proposal.
I wish Michael Albert did not interrupt Chomsky when he's giving an answer, because Noam speaks in such a low tone, it is hard to hear what he is saying. What was it that Einstein couldn't wrap his head around? something about God.
So who are the reporters on the ground that he seems to be saying are the honest ones. I’m sorry, I may not be an intellectual, but I can easily see that a lot of questions are getting answers that align closer to deflections than answers. 🤷🏼♀️
The interviewer - Michael Albert - is a close friend of Chomsky's from his undergraduate days as a physicist at MIT. Chomsky was one of the few faculty members who defended him when his student activist work against the Vietnam war became increasingly radical. They are on exactly the same page politically. Albert plays devils advocate here and there and Chomsky understands perfectly well the good reasons for his doing so.
1:38:00----Huge lifelong Chomsky reader. Yet every time he opens his mouth about people's desire for truth about 9/11 makes me cringe. I really do get his critique of paranoid theorists. But, "Nano-thermite, what's that?" "Who cares?" Really, Noam? Justice? Law? Mass murder? Two wrongful wars and countless crimes against humanity? "Who cares"? I guess everybody's entitled to be stupid about something.
@gabriele papa johns is a pizza chain restaurant their motto is better ingredients better pizza, the commentator was making an allusion to that as it relates to this interview. “ better questions , better answers” “better ingredients better pizza”
