The Chris Hedges Report: Dystopia, octopus intelligence, and what makes us human 

CHRIS HEDGES IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TEACHERS. HIS SHOW ON RT WAS DISAPPEARED FROM YT WE SHARE THAT IN COMMON, I WROTE A BOOK CALLED COWSANDPIGSMAKETHEEARTHWARM AND THEY TERMINATED ME ON YT, TWITTER AND DONT ALLOW ME TO ADVERTISE ON THE INTERNET. A BUNCH OF PEOPLE HATED GETTING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TRASHED SO MUCH THAT NOW, COWS AND PIGS IS IN 20 BLACK OWNED BOOKSTORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND HAS BEEN PICKED UP BY THE 7 LARGEST ON LINE RETAILERS THANK GOD

Chris is a genuine treasure and he's passing on his knowledge to victims of Joe Biden's Crime Bill. He is what a Christian was supposed to be, but unfortunately many or most come nowhere close...

@@thalgott3 Agreed, Chris is amazing. As for Christians, I´m sorry your view "jumps to lumps", lumping so many so broadly. Unfortunately, that´s the kind of lumping based on a kind of ahistorical, what, unpsychological and unpedagogical insight, since people need incentives and orientation. I was raised by a dad who became an atheist humanist because of his advanced education, and really valued education. And didn´t blame religion, or God, but the "multinationals." I ended up getting a degree in bio anthro, and when I graduated then knocking on doors for eco-social consumer protection for the PIRGs who taught me about Ralph Nader, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and Oxfam. Now, I had already gotten curious about scholar H Smith´s description of the Chinese Dao/Tao, and Unitarian Universalist interfaith´s support of spiritual paths. I hit a new gear in social services in a big East Coast city when an Afro-Haitian-Am lady colleague introduced me to Louise Hay´s self-care loving self-talk work, and I found her book You Can Heal Your Life. Another Puerto Rican-Am colleague introduced me to the 12 step groups, and I searched out the relationship groups CoDA and Al-Anon. I took tai chi, Kung Fu, jiu-jitsu, capoeira, kinds of self-defense martial arts as forms of meditative practice, ultimately. As I learned about the 12 step roots in the Christian spiritual Oxford Group, I got curious about historical roots. More quickly, I found Reading Rooms of Christian Science, a denomination with a spiritualized, healing focus and written testimony records. That inspired me to revisit other denominations, and even University-based culture and its origins. Rev ML King is still famous, no matter how secularized, and even Gandhi, also without much mention of his interfaith Christian plus Hindu practice. I don´t keep up with Alan Watts, and keep seeking figures to hold as a role model for interfaith practice. Karen Armstrong is interesting, Matt Fox, Ninian Smart, Fritjof Capra, are among some of my influences. I encourage you to get beyond trashtalking even progressive Christians. But that means that a person needs to take care of their own worldview personally, and I offer the suggestion that that is worthwhile. Bill McKibben might be a more conventional Christian as environmental activist worth mentioning. Going interfaith with the kinds of examples I´ve mentioned, however, captures the full scope and meaning of what is not usually used spiritually, the "Freedom of Religion" and University-based "Religious Studies." While UUism itself never really met my needs, I keep using it as the framework that makes the most sense of all my insights for Gandhian kind of living in what I call Jesus´ legacy in structured pluralism with FD Roosevelt´s vision and legacy in UN human rights and sustainability world community.

Had to watch that one multiple times

A wonderful doc! (I like to pair it with the animated Charlotte's Web).

That movie brought tears to my eyes

While I liked the theme of that movie, I felt manipulated by its injected drama. Would find a straight documentary way more effective

It was great.

How about squid?

@@tmmartinesq.6216 I don’t really know anything about the intelligence of squid. I don’t think we should be eating any animals though, or keep it to a minimum anyway. And I guess prioritise the dumber ones :)

Agree

Relatively

Relevance of sanity. Sounds like a personal problem.

@@SameAsAnyOtherStranger Relevance, relative, two different words with two different meanings. Your comment is irrelevant in this context regarding the relative nature of our sanity. But clearly your in the same group so.. Welcome fellow nutball!

@@mischevious vvg

@@leonardmead1425 Thanks but, being truly over the edge is all that’s required, nothing to feel good about! I heard yesterday that our entire society is suffering from complex PTSD. First thing I’ve heard in a long while that made complete sense!

It’s fiction

ME TO0

I bought it after this interview and it was an amazing book.

What a 🤢 name you have 😏

Not just Beatles, we’re talking Richard Starkey!.🥁

As al child I saw my father catching octopuses. For some reason he would beat them to death. It's been 55 years and the horrible scene is still with me

Example 1984 ( gorge Orwell) and Fahrenheit 451> we are now living those fiction novels

@@raymundogonzalez6450 Orwell could never have imagined Facebook or Twitter

@@nickjohnson3619 No but he was an expert on propaganda and how political groups and people in power exploit and influence messaging in media.

@@nickjohnson3619 Sure, Orwell could have EASILY imagined these social constructs. What he probably could not imagine is the power and influence masses of people yield to it voluntarily: something so basic & unimpressive.

@@MX-S I think Animal Farm may indicate Orwell had a pretty good grasp of it, but yes, something so basic & unimpressive 👌

You’re a lucky man.

'The Soul of the Octopus' is a great read too. Very deep.

I agree 💯

You have to be pyschotic to buy into consumer culture, if not you have to live in a state of traumatized disbelief fighting to maintain your sanity in a world that lacks humanity

Then you are most certainly insane

@@GlobalDrifter1000 or sanely uncertain mostly? 🤺

Nicely crafted comment 🎯 I read your poetry, 📜You could just be ubersane. Anyway Chris is the 💣

@alienígena Excellent question.

All the gods? And what of the goddesses, that gave birth to the gods?

Chris Hedges is a vegan ;)

cows are totally lovely, they like music, and pigs are cool. it's a real tragedy, but we are made like that, so many species are predators. I would like to see a change, but as chris tells, the habits of a majority hardly ever change.

@@neovxr TRUE BUT WE ARE THE ONLY SPECIES CAPABLE OF REALIZING THAT ONLY A BUNCH OF SELFAABSORBED, SELFSERVING, NARCISISTIC ASSHOLES WOULD DECIDE THAT WE ARE THE ONLY CREATURES ON THE PLANET DESERVING OF LIFE AND DARE I SAY IT, HUMANE TREATMENT. WOLFS DONT THINK ABOUT THAT. THEY JUST WANT TO LICK THEMSELVES AND BECAUSE THEY CAN OF COURSE AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT.; ALSO DID YOU KNOW THAT DEODERANT WAS FIRST DEVELOPED AS A MARINADE BECAUSE FOOD WAS SCARCE IN CITIES AND PEOPLE STINK. THERE IS NO END TO HUMAN CONSUMPTION. COWSANDPIGSMAKETHEEARTHWARM

If we lock the girl and the cow in a kitchen for three weeks without provisions I'll give you 10:1 odds on the cow. Betting is now open. I tell you, you're going to make some easy money sir. I've seen this cow and I can tell you it's a fighter.

Neovxr, well, it's not the majority we should concern ourselves with so much as the individual. Once enough individuals learns and improves or transcends, we can actually support change as it should be supported.. by unanimity. We will inevitably transcend, as every species evolves. The " well it's just not that way so let's not try very hard" line is quite dismissive and lazy.

*_"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."_*

Goodness, is the anything humans won't farm? Hi, fellow Washingtonian here, how can I and others be a part of keeping octopus farming from taking root?

That's horrific we literally all know the superior intelligence of the Octopus and many other of nature's creations, but then again Mexico would allow considering the president want to fight the Cartel with hugs and stop and have killed many a journalist. The depravity and corruption should have USA ending all ties with Mexico and Cartels are breaking a major agreement We've made with the devil's entity known to us as the Cartels. I'm sorry for those good humans living in Mexico for your suffering on many various levels due to the Cartels and USA continued acceptance of doing business with Mexico long as we do business now a days especially with Mexico the reality we all. Know is, is that we are literally doing business with, and through manufacturing we are funding the Cartels, if Meth is what north Americans want so much and the money so good for all involved and easy enough to make or it used to be that we allow carte.s smuggling it to continue even though now they are killing North Americans and don't care because they now sell drugs in farther places making way more money. If USA citizens could have Sudafed back and make their own that puts end to most business with Cartel then just close borders for awhile, or really enforce comp,incest with laws and agreements like Cartel cannot murder USA citizens or we will. Send in our military. That's literally an agreement made and the rules have far been broken and soo many innocent have died. Octopus farming anywhere is unacceptable it's all unacceptable. Animals have personalities. Ottoman Empire kidnapped and had white and black slaves for very long time so I'm glad to hear they were good to the animals... Blah blah blah humans we're not superior over animals or one another in fact the thought literally proves how bottom parasitic we are. A very suicidal self harming g species and I think it's gotten worse .Ike subconsciously we know in order to stop hate and maybe even save Earth we must remove most humans unfortunately it's the greed for money humans and those who suffer true God complex and ego that may get to come back to Earth after the continue the rest of us to kill ourselves sacrificing planet Earth as well, because they can rocket away for awhile then return and start over with their robots probably controlling them from moon or space station type place so robots don't kill, them. Making Earth a realtime experiment huh makes you start to wonder doesn't it. Maybe we are going back in time currently and robots were the beginning and they just became more and more human like to a fault and that's why we're so destructive literally to everything g surrounding us that or subconsciously those that aren't in 1% are all working slaves that given sense of freedom and pretend wages we just give back to owners through groceries, utilities taxes and medical care and housing. Feeling fee because we can walk around enough to spend money freely on their products and steal and kil, eachother for their products to sell for money to again buy their products. Unless you own housing utilities or convinced society to be dependent on your product then you a slave, so Cartels must be part of the 1%

yes, communication And Empathy. enough to realize that we are different and part of the same One, We live in peace allowing all creatures to live in dignity WE all have plant-based diets generation after generation we advance in every way because we are no longer spending time energy resources on killing each other. Our Reptilian brains turn completely off and eventually die out too. The Almighty looks at HUMANs who no longer kill hating and cause suffering, then he takes his rib back. We are God.😅

Well all you need is a model of how sound or images are processed in say elephants or birds in their sense organs then translate it to ours. I know dolphin language is 2D unlike our 1D language so to talk to dolphins we need to convert their sounds into images.

Bottlenose dolphins have different languages or dialects, and we can at least pick out their names from all those whistles and clicks. I haven't read it, but maybe this book regards octopodes because they have potential to build things.

Orca brains are more complex than human ones in what way? Clearly we can do all of those things and sooo much more.

More complex than ours? I wonder if you even know what you just wrote

What makes their brains more complex then humans? That is a silly to say given how little we know about how even human brains actually work and we don't actually know what kind of mind orcas have developed (the mind is not the brain. It's the gestalt process the brain performs, mind is the software running on the brain hardware).

Watch Derek and Clive _'The Prince of Whales'_ and then we'll talk.

F*in A 15 min in

Wow! Play it again 👈👈👈

Amazing! Order from your LOCAL bookseller.

Don't insult the octopus.

And the macaques are already communicating by screeching and flashing their genitals to each other. Imagine the sophistication of the output if we could harness millions of them to typewriters. Chris Hedges would be out of a job. Be careful what you wish for.

I've eaten delicious octupus in Spain. It's one of the most popular tapas so not surprising they now have a farm. Too bad they are going industrial as that's a harsh existence and will diminish the quality but fish and probably octopods will no longer exist in a few decades. We've basically killed off most life in the ocean so farming them is the only way to continue eating them.

@@dpiano14 You've correctly identified the inevitable future state. What's your prescription to salvage maritime agriculture? Capitalism is going to destroy the entire planet.

_'Hot For Octo-Teacher'_ - Van Halen were way ahead of their time.

Humans are animals; ask a biology teacher (cephalopod or human).

@@horaceosirian8993I know humans are animals.

Your comment is as inventive as your name. ✌kind regards from🦘

That's extra elementary dear Doktor- will check that out- thanx. ....🐙....

See how they like music. I've heard of some fish enjoying Bach and going nuts when exposed to heavy-metal.

@@siyaindagulag. I'm sure they'd love melodious vibes, as our late dog loved to listen to Mozart piano concertos.

sorry for my english

So do chickens. They are the smartest of all our domestic species and the most affectionate and cleanest. Yet look at the beyond sadistic ways we treat them.

Russell Brand is a grifter lol