The thing that amazes me the most about Chomsky is his amazing capacity for recall i.e. his memory of detail is truly astounding especially at his age. He's a human encyclopedia.
This is how I felt for Christopher Hitchens as well. Always knew such an obscure piece of knowledge that seemed like it was going off on a tangent, but he would always have a profound point. But I would say Hitchens was a better orator. Chomsky is certainly a walking encyclopedia, but I feel Hitchens was a walking encyclopedia and thesaurus. These guys are special. No doubt about it. So well studied, well versed, and have wisdom that went along with their knowledge downloads onto their audiences.
Yeah but that's only part of the equation. Interviews with Chomsky only give Chomsky's view points. Nobody is there to break down his mistakes or add alternative facts counter to Chomsky's. The first question I'd like Chomsky to answer is, what gives anyone the right to run any country? That's in response to Chomsky's what gives America the right to interfere with another country? In Venezuela, for instance, what gives Maduro the right to control Venezuela? Instead of blaming Maduro for bad policies he blames America for interfering. How does Chomsky rectify Maduro's poor leadership? The answer seems to be let it fester.
(1:32) Introduction (2:35) Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter 1963 (8:12) Moral judgements: Intellectualism (8:54) Vietnam War, wild men in the wings vs stenographers of power (17:40) Deconstructing American Exceptionalism, Nuclear missiles and the cognitive dissonance of Russian aggression intervention strategies (26:45) Venezuelan Sanctions and impeding Chinese economic development (36:33) Trump's North Korea approach (41:41) Trump domestic impact, Neoliberal political shift (49:55) Fear in America (1:02:15) Syria and Israel (1:09:55) Oxymoronic missile defense, Iran “threat” (1:12:10) Free Speech limitations by the left are a gift to the Neofascists (1:18:10) 1st amendment protects prior restraint, 1960s Civil Rights Movement changed the precedent (1:24:40) Christianity - The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey 2017 (1:33:25) Domestic terrorism: Right wing or Islamic (1:45:16) “Useable nuclear weapons” Daniel Ellsberg The Doomsday Machine: Confessions Of a Nuclear War Planner 2017 (1:50:05) Brazil, Jaír Bolsonaro and the disinformation campaign (1:59:10) Producing writing for society vs linguistics and philosophy
This is an aside, but I’m so happy your sound engineer knows how to record Chomsky in his age. As a musician it can be so frustrating on other platforms to hear someone throw up a mic with standard settings on this wonderful but soft-spoken man. The noise floor and plosives shoot through the roof! Yes! SM7b with the highs rolled off! Ok I’m stopping my sound rant there.
@thomas thompson your compression and EQ settings will handle a great deal of the stuff Chris is referring to, but reverb and delay (used with restraint) are other basic tools you can use to give depth and body to a vocal mix. The straight signal from microphone to DAW isn't usually going to sound the way you'd like it to sound in its final form, especially with someone who has lots of vocal quirks (speaking of myself in particular, my voice tends to need de-essing, EQ-work to even out nasality, etc). And before you even get to recording, the gear you use and how you setup the gear in the room you're recording in is probably the most important aspect of a recording. The world of sound recording is so much fun and you'll never run out of things to learn!
@nmeunier Fear is a feeling, it does not need a sound justification. If people believe they are under attack, or will be attacked, they will behave that way, even if there is no real reason to believe. The people of Sparta were known to carry this sort of paranoia, as well. For example, they were reluctant to send their forces too far from home. Even when the risk was low and the reward was high, they were held back by this deep feeling that someone would come to take back this 'stolen' land. So they stayed home, always training and preparing for battle.
@Dog Ma So are you saying that Chomsky's knowledge of history, rights, politics, etc. with referances to articles by professionals on the subject, is made up? By facts I mean his referances to books and articles, and by reality I mean his recollection and knowledge of history. Could you maybe give some examples on what you don't agree with in this video? I mean, I don't claim to agree with everything in the video. I'm for example sceptic to what Chomsky said about windows and china. That doesn't mean that he didn't use facts and reality in what he said..
Interesting statement by the Maestro: “Since the Raegan era, both parties moved so much to the right, that when you hear Eisenhower now, he sounds like a Bernie Sanders”
@Bryzz Lull There are simply too many. I'm not talking about an abject wizard of oz here, I'm talking about people at the top of the hundreds of private corporations who make 100x the amount their workers make, which should be seen as theft, nothing else. Currency itself is a lie and used to enslave people. Abraham Lincoln said minimum wage labor is the same as slavery. Who? No, why don't you instead ask how many people are homeless, how many children are hungry, how outrageous costs of healthcare and prescription drugs are, how the majority of the wealth goes to the top of the people in this PLUTOCRACY.
@@Maximilian_1 Because it is true. The answer is right in front of you, all around you. If you can't see it then... what are you other than ignorant or intransigent?
@Bryzz Lull What have they influenced? Elections. Policies. Look at private ownership of the internet, which was developed by the government with tax-payer money! That is the influence. It influences a massive percentage of what people desire. Look at advertising today. Look at what is being done with the internet. Look at the hundreds of commercials of lawsuits about different corporations that knew very well that their products were harmful or even deadly. Look at Johnson and Johnson with the talcum powder. People are born into massive amounts of debt that simply isn't going to be paid back, when the massively wealthy get to sit around on gilded couches and drink thousand dollar wines. Oh yes, this must be saved! The reality is, policies every day are written not for the betterment of the people but specifically for the rich, and psychologists are hired to meticulously craft products and advertisements which brainwash people effectively. It is a massively tangled ball of yarn, and that is what you get with this form of capitalism. Not capitalism in general, for American capitalism is its own breed. There are no rules. Corporations make the rules, and if you disagree... you can join the largest prison population in the world... that's where they will hold you, or you will end up on the streets, maybe to die in a gutter. Who cares? Very few, especially not the rich.
One of the greatest minds of 21st century has a little less than 11,000 views in 4 days, while the presentation of the new Tesla truck in 3 days has more than 5 million views. This is the reality we live in, and governments are glad that people are left to their own stupidity.
you just like these guys because you dont want to read, all they do is regurgitate knowledge , they have no true intellectual insight on anything , they arent here to fix or do anything but get paid they are just as bad as bad corporations. "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." and then you melt
@@sirnunez7923 You think this is all they do? Where is Noam Chomsky on the news? Almost never. He is probably getting paid for his time sometimes. Do you expect him not to be? This is Noam Chomsky we're talking about here... very famous and people do indeed watch him and follow him in the internet.
Seems like he didn't get the memo while defending and praising Chavez. And this was way after Chavez was incarcerating judges, political opposition, "kidnappings" and stole private property. He is as much of a pundit as the next one.
I think that's by design, because if you could actually hear what he's saying and then play it back years later, you would realize how vacuous and out of touch his ideas are.
Many thanks, LK. Being 1/4 Christian humanist and 3/4 Chomskyist myself, it's great to see the auld yin still in good shape and as sharp as ever. A true father of humanism
There's no other point in space time than this. It's inevitable, but you can still be amazed : every fact is as common and ordinary as a capricious fortuity
If it seems like Chomsky is talking over Krauss sometimes I think it may be partly an issue of his hearing. Normally he wouldn't do that. I took a class from him last year (it was amazing!) and he really had difficulty hearing some of the questions from the class. Considering he just had his 91st birthday on 12/7 he's doing amazingly well!
I've read the Ellsberg book Chomsky references at 1:46 and I highly recommend it. Also, the book by Scott Atran he refers to earlier is called Talking to the Enemy, also an amazing book, Atran went into places like Lebanon and the West Bank and talked to potential terrorists and the communities that support them and what he found was (as Chomsky alluded to) they were primarily motivated not by religion but by the same things that would motivate anyone: that their friends and loved ones had been murdered, maimed, and tortured by the US and US puppet forces. Another excellent book along the same lines is Dying to Win: The Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape from the University of Chicago, very scholarly and dispassionate statistical analysis of terrorism and its causes. Interestingly, Pape's work was primarily supported by the DOD under Bush and Rumsfeld. I wonder what they thought of his results. Although, that's really not all that unusual, the DOD and the CIA often have a good understanding of what is really going on, it's just that those kinds of analysis (e.g., the Pentagon Papers) are meant for internal use not for the general public.
yeah wtf! I follow a lot of these type of things and watch BOTH these guys a lot... yet I got no recommendation until now. Fuck you RU-vid... sometimes you know me better than my wife... and sometimes you're a complete stranger.
Yes this is the new norm now - The Leftists are in control; so naturally they're getting the Communist message out as soon as possible. a.k.a. Deprogram and/or silence the Conservatives - - - Sad for our Bill of Rights...
Sooo happy so see and hear Lawrence again! And my beloved Chomsky as well! Wow, I'd say God's heard my prayers if there was one☻ Subscribing and looking forward to more from you🤗 Love ftom Russia x
The thing that impresses me the most about Chomsky (and there are many things on that list) is his lack of cynicism. He never seems to despair of people. Even when talking of these same dreary old establishment stances against student protests (and we’re seeing it again right now actually) happen again and again and people still fall for it, he doesn’t get cynical and blame people. Most of us can’t do that. By the time we’re 30 we’ve decided the average person is pond life and just give up on politics. It’s a tremendous quality in a person to never really ‘get old’ in this way.
Just a quick note to say that the Liberation Theology in Latin America was not acceptable to the official Catholic Church. Pope John Paul 11's tirade against one of the leaders in public attested to the Church's position. The cause of canonization of the nuns who were murdered by CIA backed forces have been ignored by the Church of Rome.
The sage speaks, and we mortals listen with awe for his deep humanism and clarity. Long live Chomsky and his honesty, intellectualism, and the courage to speak truth.
I am, and I think the whole world should be infinitely grateful to Mr Chomsky for his decision to speak out for decades! His POV and commentary has been invaluable and inspirational to millions... I adore him, and thank you and him so much for this...
I agree that so many Chomsky videos and audios are poorly miked and lit and distantly framed. This is a pleasure to look at and listen to because the tech side is so well done. To have The Enterprise and Mr. Spock hovering in the background is icing on the cake. Bravo!
I used to put so many hours into these kinds of discussions, but since i've had such a massive fallout. The internet just appears as so much and with each moment the breadth of it all i have no idea what to put the attention into for developmental or practice sake.
Is there anything that Noam Chomsky has not read and imbibed intellectually? A unique blend of knowledge and wisdom that is unsurpassed in my estimation.
Knowledge is not the same as wisdom: If Chomsky, ' reads and imbibes ', last season's pro football stats, then does that make Chomsky qualified to play or coach for an NFL team? See how ridiculous that reasoning is? 😂
Noam is like a statue of intelligence. He sees history like it were a rainbow of shifting patterns, always changing but the same in its essential form. He knits together the nagging of the left with the oppression of the right and the resulting friction. He is calm like the center of a hurricane, throwing out words which make you at once say, "ahh, now I see the truth", and, "holy shit, we've got to do something about this." All the while he looks back at history, he predicts the future without even trying. In other words, some things never change.
Let Noam talk! Anytime he was talking it seemed like you were trying to rush him so you could talk or change topics. Let things flow more naturally IMO. I like the really like your pod though and love Noam's views.
Chomsky is the most important thinker of the 20th century and the first 20 years of the 21st. He is growing old but his mind is still sharper than most people in their 20s. He's absolutely correct about almost every subject and has an encyclopedic brain. He introduced me to Socialism and Anarchy at a young age and has read almost everything he has written. He should be the president but he is a leader, not a politician. The two are almost mutually exclusive. When he passes I will be very sad and lost.
I share the same sentiments with you. Chomsky can only be preserved by sharing his thoughts and works with the rest of the population. It amazes me that this video has very few views in comparison to the nonsense that plagues RU-vid.
Noam was asked what can be done, he responded that solutions were everywhere just not implemented. I don't want the dark ages again for my progeny, what is our pedagogy ? Yes, sincere appreciation for the wokeness of Noam. lawson
the Brazilian social media campaign stunned him and yet he thinks nothing of the Russian meddling in our elections. he's also dead wrong on Islamic terror. outside of these two issues I loved everything else he said and found him to be profoundly insightful.
Many thanks from Finland. Noam has always had my full attention & respect. Choosing to help humanity is absolutely beautiful. Some people are just fundamentally angelic ;) Best wishes!
This makes me so sad. When we grew up all of us would leave every morning and hike and bike with no phones, our mom’s trusted us to come home when the streetlights came on.
@@gypsylips1950 , Well that was a nice shot of Chomsky-esque paranoid conspiracy thinking. But now I will try & bring you back to reality: Chomsky has spent his career criticizing others in areas that he has NEVER actually worked himself-Which is everything outside Linguistics, and with the great luxury of exploiting 20/20 Hindsight-Hindsight which those whom he criticizes did NOT have at the time! Which entails ZERO, ' wisdom '! Smh
@@gypsylips1950 , (SIGH) OK-Time you get a reality check here yourself: It is precisely Chomsky's status as an, ' academic ', that is his problem! The man has spent his entire career merely critiquing others, in fields that he has NEVER actually worked in himself! Nor is there a shred of proof that anything Chomsky has ever said, done, or written, has ever Directly, ' influenced ', any particular issue in this country-Ever! THIS is the reality about Chomsky! So please don't try & Shoot the Messenger with misplaced insults, just because you yourself can't face reality here! SMH
Srsly when did this interview happen? I need to know under which context this discussion was undertaken. Had the Ukraine thing come out? Had the removal of troops from Northern Syria occurred?
also this interview is a gem. ive been trying to pace the incidences of my mindblownness, and its become increasingly hard for things to mindblow me that are not just pure academic lengthly research and "liturgy" (I wish i could understand turing's computational incompleteness paper but one go was definitely not enough.)...the pure candence that mr. chomsky speaks shows his confidence from his younger days, but also the depth and tidiness of his research (for example him reading airplane bombing records). and always have in mind the masses as well...
It's fascinating how they talk about how much the world has changed in the three years since that they last spoke and yet they don't even know what's coming in 2020. Going to check back in here in 2022 as I suspect that the change is going to be monumental. Keep safe out there people.
Everything good in this world has come from the blood, the sweat and the tears of poor blacks, poor whites, poor Latinos and poor southeast Asians. These groups should unite and nobody will stop them.
I am at wow state when i listen to his discourses for many reasons. I am so greatful to see an intellectual speaking of matters and world wide events in mordern ways which help us understand social matters.
The Vietnam War came into my life and I’m 72 now through The on the scene reporters that were there with our boys in Vietnam filming what was actually happening in full color with commentary from the reporter and I remember distinctly that there came a point where there weren’t any major news entities showing the horror as it happened we didn’t have smell a vision van but we wanted it and then all of a sudden there’s no more live news in color broadcasting from Vietnam as soon as the American public didn’t see what was really happening everything could be hidden from American opinion and politicized and continued killing our boys and girls on both sides of the issue in Vietnam my draft number was 86
If Chomsky doesn't have the disclaimer that he's an anarchist and doesn't believe the state should exist, he shouldn't be commenting on international politics through a moral lens. You can't use the same moral logic between people as you can between countries, arguing the universal standards countries should follow. Doing so endorses their existence, which is contradictory to the philosophy which got him to anarchy. Living in the US, I find it infinitely preferable for the US to be dominant militarily over Russia and any other country. There's no justification for Russia's attempt to place nuclear weapons in Cuba after the US put them near Russia's border because justifications are inherently moral statements. Russia's actions are understandable, sure, but that's not an indictment of the U.S. In a political reality, remaining neutral gives other countries an advantage over your own. Arguing against that is like reasoning with a burglar why they shouldn't rob you. When you allow statism, you throw morality out the window. You have to argue from the lens of international politics and understand that different countries benefit from their ideologies spreading and that it's permissible to combat their spread. Promoting your own country's ideology is less of an imposition and more of a defense mechanism. The way Chomsky speaks, you'd think that if the US stood down and became more peaceful, so would the rest of the world and we would all be better for it. I've heard too many good arguments to believe this isn't the case. Being an American, he should want American supremacy, just as any other country wants their own supremacy. The methods in order to increase peace are not necessarily to reduce American supremacy and those arguments, which all come through the same lens every time he speaks, are getting tired. He does not have a strategy for peace, but rather capitulation and hope.
Thank you very much for this, definitely made me think about some things in different ways than i otherwise did. And to paraphrase, it’s better to have fought and lost than to have never fought at all
What a great talk. I notice at around 53:00 Noam talks about how people shelter their children from the outside world to protect them from overblown threats. And that we know the threats are overblown because the statistics are lowered on incidents like kidnappings, etc. But wouldn't the fact that children are all protected and sheltered be one of the main factors in bringing those statistics down in the first place? It's kind of like saying that you don't need to take a tetanus vaccine because nobody gets tetanus any more, but then the reason why nobody gets tetanus any more is because everyone takes the tetanus vaccine.
Chomsky says the right should be allowed to speak and proved wrong in open debate, but free speech isn’t just to allow the other side to come round to your point of view. Free speech is to allow for the possibility that you, also, may be wrong.
1:58:35 It's quite shocking that they're slashing funding to the sciences, historically there's never been a greater ally to facist/crypto-facist military regimes than the sciences.
Yolo Swaggins well now there’s a lot to dissect there. The Nazis loved SOME science. Other sciences, psychology and Nuclear science were dubbed “Jewish science”. Fascists only like technology so far as it advances their power, and sciences that they don’t like are cut and suppressed. Fascism is also inherently anti intellectual, Eco’s Ur-Fascism outlines this better than I can.