On September 17, 2012, Noam Chomsky held a public lecture with the title "The Emerging World Order: its roots, our legacy" at Politeama Rossetti in Trieste.
Yeah................. Original American indeed. "Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[24] His father was William "Zev" Chomsky, an Ashkenazi Jew originally from Ukraine who had fled to the United States in 1913. " That you even dare call him an American. And what is brilliant? Mentioning something which was already written in the newspapers in 1940? Wauw, brilliant.
He already has even though here in America for obvious reasons mainstream mediaites won't book him. I studied him in college during the Sixties. Since then, his reputation as one of the most brilliant minds to ever have walked this planet has spread globally.
Good to see someone pointing that out. Regarding the monetary system and RBE as proposed by TVP. TZM do well at highlighting the shortfalls of the monetary system aswell. If it weren't for Addendum and Moving Forward many of us would be oblivious to these shortfalls.
Good on you! He's an intelligent guy and, even though he can sometimes be on the dry side and hard to stay focused on sometimes, he's well worth listening to.
"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online."
As he gets older, it's sad to think that someday in the relatively near future we will turn on the news to hear that he had died, never knowing if people took his words to heart and put the planet on a better path.
Nicely said. While I don't take everything Chomsky says at face value and without reflection, I appreciate his ability for critical thinking and he has, without a doubt, offered value to our (generalization coming..) dumbed down population.
i heard rutgers was kind of a big wild place so i was kind of curious about what kind of people you could meet there. im curious is it really frat city like they say or do you find kids who want to have these conversations occasionally? i was always dissappointed in drews lack of a party scene. we had fuckin hippies who couldnt even find acid, it was depressing.
That is the most chilling implication in the whole matter. We have lost a group of free thinking people in this nation. They are still lost in the year 2001. It seems, even during current events, they try to find answers to questions in an event that happened almost 12 years ago like some sort of mental time loop.
I did forget to comment on one thing you threw out there. I didn't say I'm older than you and therefore wiser. I said, effectively, that there is only one way to gain wisdom (and it isn't a given that a person will) and that's through time spent learning. There is no way around it. For the record, I've bothered to collect some because, like you, I have a good head on my shoulders and like to use it.
Looking from outside in at the act of war - it really goes back to understanding the inner human brain and the drivers of thought here within all of us; in order to lever this, as it has been going on far too long and is wide spread in leader animal misunderstood settings of behaviors. The difference is made by taking a stand which takes a heart alike Martin Luther King, as well as individuals in the world understanding the dynamics of the brain which in-act such childish leadership wants.
Interestingly Chomsky has described his upbringing as working class intellectual - that is most of his family were not formally educated but they educated themselves. Also he has described MIT has being better at foestering independent thought than other universities. So Chomsky seems to have benefited from particular cultural circumstances that have encouraged his own critical thought.
I will have to look into Richard Wolff. And as for Ron Paul, he may be a politician but he has a very thorough understanding of world history and economics. He is not like other politicians in this right, He will and has run circles around any other politician when it comes to intellectualism.
I am afraid of a world without Noam Chomsky. Although there are many great intellectual, Chris Hedges and others, nobody else does what Noam does--carefully and dispassionately laying out the reality of international and domestic politics and elite agendas.
He might or might not have gems to pass on to the people. But I can only listen to him for about 10 minutes before his voice bores me to death. It's the verbal equivalent of counting sheep.
My opinion is that people should be held accountable for being manipulated. The trait of allowing themselves to be manipulated is a sign of a week spiritual soul. Which means these people have been week for thousands of years. The motif of: if you don't control your mind someone else will control it for you applies. If people hurt other people because they've allowed themselves to be manipulated, the hurt people deserve to be compensated and the perpetrators of the crime punished.
Don't forget the importance of actually, you know, organizing politically and economically and actually informing yourself and others about the strategical situation... That seems quite a bit more significant than what products you decide to consume within your life time. I would even be tempted to say that what you suggest is to an extent exactly what the powers that be expect you to do...
laying out where society had to go, as if the extremely complex decisions facing our society could ever be made by one man. But the second, and more important reason, is that in his view its more important to make poeple aware of what we dont need than potentially alienate them with his views. Alot of people, actually probably the majority in this country agree with some percentage of what he says, and he wants to keep the focus on people uniting and getting rid of what doesnt work so that
What a commanding genetic beginnings! Both his parents were Hebrew scholars!! Can you imagine that? What a dynamic cultural upbringing just by osmosis only, long before graduate and post graduate studies. And imagine his peers. They'd have to be of similar cultural level to even think of maintaining any friendship!
I live in Canada, where our culture is very much the same. Therefore I have every right and responsibility to critique it. And I agree, however I sense your reactions appear to be emotive and defensive. My intentions aren't to demean Americans/Canadians, but rather I am expressing my opinions on the state of Western culture (America being the center of it). It may be cynical, but not meant to insult people as a whole.
Knowledge is not out there for everyone to access, in fact there is such a mass of information that it takes a huge amount of time to process it properly and usually most people who have to work, care for their families, their homes, etc simply have no time for that. That's what you call "idiots". Time actually is only one factor of lack of political culture. I'm sure it could be analyzed as one big system of exclusion. That's why Chomsky is so popular, because he works for the people.
Because people like certainty, which we cannot have. We especially want to be certain about our own beliefs, so we test them against others - even though the debate is highly irrelevant. As long as debates are constructive and the goal is agreement, then I am all for discussion. But when the motive is to prove that 'I am right' by showing that 'you are wrong', I don't condone it. Sadly that's what people like to do today; not rarely offline but almost always in the anonymous social networks
The towers can be seen falling down at freefall speed from several angles from several videos... also how do you explain building 7? Also the hijackers were more tied to Al Queda then Saudi Arabia
i understand that you might subconsciously absorb a few of his observations, perhaps even understanding them in the process. though do you think you'll be able to absorb his capabilities, the essence of his brilliance?
I just watched this video & read the comments (above) it makes me sad to see that instead of articulating a common goal or a common language that will help us articulate oppression of government (which we cannot fight without a common language and goal) we are instead fighting each other online. Are we content within our global situation? Is the ruling class which governs a group that represents us? so why aren't we fighting this cause instead of each other?
I'm not denying that there are smart Americans--rather I am criticizing American culture, where intellectualism is seen as a negative. Anyone who expresses themselves in an articulate manner, which challenges the social norms and conventional discourse is shunned. Look around you, man. People like Chomsky is merely proof that even an intellectual sewer that is American culture, beautiful flowers can still bloom.
I am in complete agreement. It is sad seeing how old Chomsky is getting, btw. The ol' brain is still clearly working but it makes one realize how fast life goes by.
Hi. Sorry for the confusion. Yep, I hit "reply" on the wrong name. No matter. I agree that it may well not be the CIA but explaining the various possibilities is for another venue. I also agree that we are limited in what we see, even after restrictions are lifted from top secret documents. Those black lines are an exercise in frustration. BTW, I'd be interested in your theory re Oswald, Russia, his wife, etc. and you are clearly well versed in the subject.
Really. I my self am an American yet I am open to other cultures, knowledgeable in the history of the world, and am willing to admit my country's misdoings. I oppose my government. I have no hate toward other countries like Iran. Explain that please.
its pretty hard, because the world isnt "one" its comprised of billions of individuals that have billions of families, millions of communities, millions of corporations etc.
I don't think it is our job to judge others, because it is a way of shifting responsibility and it doesn't change anything. Instead of looking for others to blame we should be looking at ourselves and how we by action/inaction contribute to the problem/solution.
Each individual is freed once he comes he reconciles internal conflicts and allows himself to seek truth on this we can agree. Globally as long as we remain a world divided by nations, religions, resources, cultures, languages and races conflict is unavoidable. The concept however of one world ruled by a single global entity does not bode well for the average American. The US/Canada currently represents 60% of global grain exports. The US is poised to surpass Saudi as the largest oil producer.
You have to actually look at the information in front of you. If you read it carefully you see that, while there is some debate about whether the actual letter is in existence, there is no doubt that the information concerning the purpose of the first two wars and mention of the second, took place well before even the Great War. This part is indisputable. It is hard to get accurate information about almost anything of controversy, I find& there is a lot of disappearance of documents-cont...
Most of Chomskys' comments here are taken from his Hegemony or Survival book, and others. So, if you enjoy this get that book. A good read. Apart from that make your own mind up on his writings.
