Mind blown: Noam Chomsky speaks at Google about how they ought not exist, and every point he makes is over the head of the audience. Pure gold. That end of the interview was a mic drop, gut-splitting laughter on my end. Uncomfortable laughter among the KoolAid-drinkers in the audience.
They’re the most lost. the general public doesn’t have the false sense of security and corporate daycare like Google provides its employees. We see through the mirage.
@@brandinshaeffer8970 Hahaha, where he said that? Cause I cant find it, I dont want to listen to yet another of his lectures, the dude can create a sentence of one hour when they ask him for the simple answer, hahahaha!
@@tijuanaforeplay8232 , (SIGH) You know what happens when you ASSUME-Right? I NEVER said I was a fan of Fox News! And I actually HAVE read, ' Manufacturing Consent ', which, in reality, is ITSELF a perfect example of Fake News! Smh
indeed, most of the commenters don't have the brains of a googler, and don't have the commitments, knowledge, and achievement of chomsky. i mean we all are free to comment, but you know, it's more getting it outta ya and less getting it into someone else's brain. so, perhaps chomsky's last advise is indeed useful to many people, we all should do something more useful. (not some die-hard fan of chomsky, i mean, alpha0 plays general game of chess (&go&shogi) in an entirely different way conjectured by him couple of yrs ago. and he himself would probably want us to think critically rather than blindly following ideas, even his own ones.)
@Filthy N'Wah pouring cold water on a burn is the first thing that should be done before burn dressings, skin grafts, etc. don't talk shit about medicine when you know nothing.
20:05 Chomsky: The working class, the rising working class, had its own institutions of education and culture, which was significant; a lot of that has been destroyed- in all kinds of ways. Google doesn’t help. Google Interviewer: Happy to do our part.
His flip reply sounded both defensive--"I know we're part of the problem, but please don't point it out"--and offensive--"Hey, don't fuck with us; we're on top, we're immune, and we're cool; just look at what I'm wearing!" Also, can we talk about the background noise. It's like doors opening and closing, rustling sounds, people moving around, and the interviewer looking over Chomsky's shoulder. So disrespectful.
@@caballosinnombre3981 Yeah, he should have stood up and gone into a teary declaration about how he is right and Google should change its ways and the establishment should just fold. Because, that would work.
" It is sadly evident throughout most of this video that the interviewer has absolutely no idea what Chomsky is talking about. " Then both the interviewer and Chomsky are in the same boat...smh
@@brandinshaeffer8970 , You're missing the point here: The SMARTER that Chomsky is, then WORSE Chomsky looks for spending his entire life merely criticizing everyone else from the sidelines!
M CK I don’t understand your point. Unfortunately, since power isn’t a contest for truth or intelligence, the intelligent aren’t automatically empowered. Chomsky is doing everything he can within his power, but he doesn’t get much since nobody’s listening. Fox news, CNN, major news networks and other ways people receive information pretend he doesn’t exist. His chances for political power is zero for obvious reasons. [70 years of soundbites to push in a media against him as well as “radical” left of center ideas (e.g Authority has to prove it’s legitimacy to exist)]
The last question I think put a bold period in this discussion: Interviewer: ... our software engineers and our advertisement experts and our, you know, market experts from different fields - do you have anything that you would like to ask US? Chomsky: Why not do some of the serious things?
The interviewer was evidently lost. Chomsky was talking about how advertisement is being done all wrong, and the interviewer then tried to impress him by telling him he had a room full of advertisement experts.
Good guess. The only one with an IQ above room temperature on that list is Jordan Peterson, who makes a living off of preaching to sexually inept white guys and being confused about epistemology.
Nope, Peterson is a protestant (which btw - more or less directly - accounts for some of these public filings for intellectual bankruptcy he loves to put out on UA-cam).
Well, I can tell you this: all these "right wing white males" get more views in an hour than Chomsky gets in a day. And they do not have the support of Google. I do not even share their oppinion on everything. But I sure am curious about how long you will be able to afford avoiding them. Good luck!
From another Chomsky interview: “Just think of the forms of authority and domination that exist in our societies. One of the dominant ones is wage labor. If you go back to the early days of the industrial revolution, in England and the US and other countries, people who were being driven into the industrial system bitterly condemned it. In the US in the mid-19th century, when the industrial revolution was beginning, working people described wage labor as equivalent to slavery. The only difference was that wage labor was temporary, whereas slavery was permanent. Actually that was such a widespread idea that it was a slogan of the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln accepted it. When Northern workers went to war in the Civil War, that was one of their slogans. [They wanted] to eliminate chattel slavery-you know, literal slavery-and what they called wage slavery. No influence of Marx or European radicalism-this just came straight out of the popular understanding of free, independent people who felt their rights were being taken away by being forced into a system where they have to sell themselves to survive.” Google employs many people as contractors. It's pretty obvious why they'd censor this. ua-cam.com/video/AkvPDx2qNjM/v-deo.html
Totally. Noam once mentioned how the nyt and WaPo chose not to publish Arafat's peace gestures to Israel - because they know they aren't just reporting news, they're 'preserving history' for future academics.
@stop immigration : Have you ever considered exactly who profits from driving our wages down? People like trump, and other billionaires so obviously profit, whereas immigrants are just trying to survive. Also, the amount of immigrants even under the Obama administration was a tiny drop in the bucket of this problem. Far far more substantial is the fact that conservative backed corporations take all the jobs overseas. Immigrants for the most part just do the jobs that Americans consider beneath them. You know, they are trying to just live and feed their family. How is that so wrong comparatively? Btw if you are not full blooded American Indian, *you are an immigrant.* This is an indisputable fact. But even then, literally anyone outside of Africa is an immigrant and that has been proven both archeologically, and by DNA testing. This is no longer just another hypothesis or simple-minded assumption like monotheism for instance. Also the conservative party is largely responsible for driving down wages by doing their level best to destroy labor unions, witch aaare obviously something the wealthy elite are dead set against, because it puts more of the money back into the hands of the people, their workers. Yet the greed is still not satiated. No, they still move the jobs overseas after destroying our living wage (witch is also slavery) by destroying the labor unions. So you see, as a wage slave you are worth exactly *nothing* to them. Now I'm bagging on the conservatives yes, but most of the democratic politicians are also conservatives, and secretly support the *more openly hostile policies* of the republican party. Either way, you are a wage slave and they don't give a flying rat's sphincter about you. Sadly this leaves us all with two choices, at least when it comes to presidential elections in particular: 1) Vote for those who secretly care nothing for us. 2) Vote for those who openly care nothing for us. While one may *seem* more honest, consider this analogy: would you rather live in a city where murder is openly condoned, or one where it is secretly condoned? Because if murder is openly condoned, there will so obviously be many more murders committed. I was debating politics earlier with some always-trumpers and one said, and rightfully so I might add: _"Sleepy Joe won't save America."_ No, _Sleepy Joe_ won't save America. Joe Biden is just another conservative democrat obviously. *But,* voting for Joe Biden absolutely 100% *will* save America from trump's fascism and wanna be dictatorship. That is simply an obvious and easily demonstrable fact: remove trump, and you remove his outward fascism and wannabe dictatorship. It could not be any more simple. But I leave people with a warning: trump is a symptom, not the disease. Racism (and it's accompanying conspiracy hypotheses) are *the delusions that got trump elected.*
20:05 Chomsky: The working class, the rising working class, had its own institutions of education and culture, which was significant; a lot of that has been destroyed- in all kinds of ways. Google doesn’t help. Google Interviewer: Happy to do our part.
It's like this interviewer genuinely didn't expect that this leftist Chomsky wouldn't support Chinese style censorship and control of the internet. Yeah, offend the advertisers, go back to bed grandpa! We only want to do sensible things like block unapproved information.
Yes we are fortunate to have Chomsky to denounce Capitalism! It's not like Chomsky himself SELLS his books for a PROFIT, and makes a SALARY as a Professor at MIT, which charges TUITION to Students-Right??? -Hey, Wait a Minute...
Matt D wow you must have been watching a different interview then the rest of us....He didnt say anything about supporting Chinese style censorship. And sure why not offend the advertisers...its about time we offended them for a change instead of the other way around.
@@mck1972 wow you area freaking idiot......Like the rest of us Chomsky has to live in a capitalist society....So he needs money. That doesnt mean he is supporting it or being a hypocrite because he's trying to get by in a society that he didnt create. Did you think he should stay dirt poor and not send his own kids to good schools or try to give the a good life.
Great talk, I would appreciate the interviewer to run a discussion and not just asking questions which have nothing in common to previous words of Chomsky
Prof Noam’s memory is amazing. At one point in the interview, I thought he really forgot the rest of what he was quoting but that’s exactly what the quote is. From another source: ‘Senator Mark Hanna said in 1895: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is."’
Thank you google for democratically choosing your guests. This man is one of the most important men alive, but likely even more important in the future. And he is not invited to mainstream media anymore.
we need more discussions by informed people regarding why our democracy is where it is (not working for the large majority of citizens), how we got here, and how to change it.
This is probably the most crowded of all Google talks - after all, I first heard of Chomsky because of the application of his linguistic theory to compilers. Chomsky made compilers possible!
Google please interview Chomsky again. The subject of AI was a great point to explore further. Give Chomsky the respect he deserves. Sergey Brin or Larry Page should be talking to him. These are interesting times and we need more thorough conversations like this. Give Chomsky the correct platform.
Love the edit at 19:35 where Chomsky (surely) refers to the "factory girls'" judgement that wage labor was merely another form of slavery. They just flat cut it out. He probably also mentions how that position was the part of the Republican party platform at the time. Stay classy, Google.
wow, good spot. He says near the end that he already talked about the "factory girls" but i didn't remember hearing about it (although I have heard the story before).
I thought I couldn't interview people in English as I'm not an native English speaker, maybe I can't catch the nuances of others' speech. After watching this interview, I feel, all of a sudden, much more confident of my skills ;-D
You can certainly do it. See how the Google kids get their jobs even though they don’t have anything profound to say? It’s more about conforming to the system. I’m not great at verbal communication either, but I have confidence in the quality and intention of my thoughts, so I like to write them down. Don’t let the barrier of speech stop you from fighting for what matters
I am offended that you are offended....you probably should frame things in terms of what you love rather than what you hate....in which case I would have said....you missed an opportunity to be explicit in describing a way his choice of mannerism could have been better made
@@bradmodd7856 Hey Brad. In an explicit way: he is arrogant and patronising. His false chipper attitude is not a problem of mannerism but of orientation towards his interviewee, a lack of respect for the gravity of the topics raised. As such there is very little positive to say about him in this context. As for your offence, thats too bad, but ironic that you frame your comment by the modern boon of offence, and then continue to prescribe the way in which I comment should be through "love".
@@GingerDrums : One could assume that Brad just made a wrong assumption about who you were referring to. I say that in part because I was unsure at first too, as I did not remember that specific comment even though I did indeed listen to the entire video. To be fair to you as well, I often assume people will know witch "side" I am referring to. So I am trying to make sure I am very clear about such things. That said, I do agree with your assessment.
"Ads is needed for publication" "No, that's not true"... ... I wonder if this host will quit Google and rediscover its tenure at Google was nothing but a capitalism lie ...
I honestly have gotten the strong feeling that google engineers are painfully naive. They think they're serving the world with some kind of moral compass, without realizing they are part of a profit generating business.
35:15-41:15 The interviewer asks: "Why aren't there more Noam Chomsky's in the world"... I like how Noam Chomsky answers that and the follow-up questions...
Bad interview. You don't interview someone like Chomsky with prepared question; it's an insult. You could have emailed him your questions and published his answers. If you are not smart enough to improvise questions live based on the direction of the interview, you shouldn't be interviewing Chomsky.
Yeah, really I bet chomsky gets freaking tired of the same intro and questions, he should of just said, don't you guys own youtube, look up my response.
Christopher Hitchens on Chomsky: 'My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States … In some awful way, his regard for the underdog has mutated into support for mad dogs. This is not at all like watching the implosion of an obvious huckster and jerk like Michael Moore, who would have made a perfectly good Brownshirt populist. The collapse of Chomsky feels to me more like tragedy.'
Matthew Singh-Dosanjh - I love Hitchens, but someone who supported the Iraqi war and its resultant consequences should look into the mirror. No guru is correct all the time but the general perspective of Chomsky will stand the test of time... as will that of Hitchens.
On your first point, I couldn't disagree more- it's those that opposed the 2003 liberation of Iraq that have all the explaining to do. If you like, I'm happy to parrot Hitchens' argument in favour of the 2003 military action.
all those crusty old socialists are most popular politicians in their respective countries, not to mention the grassroots movements that sprung around them. So what the fuck are you talking about?
right, so you haven't been paying attention: i said they're the most popular in their countries not only universities. It even pierced through the conservative bubble: insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/11/most-least-popular-us-senators-morning-consult-poll-bernie-sanders-mitch-mcconnell *edited to add link.
no - you haven't been paying attention. Corbyn will lose my a wide margin tomorrow, Bernie was crushed by his own party and Chomsky isn't even in politics. In fact that particular old capitalist is quite deft being a good ol' capitalist. Have a look at this: www.hoover.org/research/noam-chomsky-closet-capitalist
Mr Chomsky is the most outstanding scholar of our time! I watched his every interview with 100% concentration because I don't want to miss out on all his pearl of wisdom. I salute all the works he has done for humanity!
Not if google has any say, lols. There was clearly a crappy edit to delete what Noam said about wage slavery. That should tell everyone all they need to know about google.
This is a pretty good representation of Google, we include everyone! And although their opinions might be pertinent and essential, we will pretend to listen and continue to go after collecting information and selling advertisements, but believe ourselves to be working towards the greater good, didn't you see us feign interest during that time the man came with the essential insight we completely ignored?
*No. He never once said that, period.* Ageism is just another form of bigotry and essentially no different than racism or genderism. I doubt it was your intention, but you just became part of the problem in this _Misinformation Age._ I suggest you reconsider for the sake of all of us, especially those who are younger and yet unborn. Spread information and critical thought processes, not bigoted memes.
Holy cr... imagine after inviting Chomsky to dinner and after he arrives at one's home he starts to criticise one's family. Cheers to, dare I say, the greatest modern American dissident.
Good to hear Chomsky once again. Looking from outside over a long time, it is difficult to trust USA when once upon a time US was almost like God for some of us.
Respect to Google for giving space and publishing views that are obviously contrary to its interests. Chomsky may be opinionated and not always right; however, he surely knows facts and has lived through stuff he talks about. Nice.
Its pretty obvious to me the interviewer is full of himself and he's not too happy Noam is telling it like it is. Too bad, so sad. Chomsky tells it like it is (in his very sweet and humble way). He's my hero.
Interviewer to the guy who devised the concepts fundamental to all programming languages: 'I'm a software engineer and I have nothing to do with linguistics.' - Does not compute... *brrrzzzl* (Sorry, the interview wasn't bad at all, but stuff like this makes you want to put a vise to your balls...)
interviewer did fine IMHO, as he obviously comes from a very different place/point of view. It would be frustrating to interview anyone & have them refuse to answer questions posed, and instead answer on what they please, as Chomsky increasingly does as it progresses. I get how & why Chomsky does that, but I think the interviewer handled it pretty well. Credit to Google for even doing this: not many corps would invite Chomsky to slap them in the face like this.
I thought exactly the same thing. Software guy who doesn't understand the connection of how programming LANGUAGES are related to Linguistics. Furthermore, it was a bad interview, the interviewer was not prepared and at times down right disrespectful.
"Google doesn't help." Wow, a very blunt and to-the-point comment. I have been citing Chomsky in my undergraduate Literature and Linguistics classes but I was not aware that he is that active.
Isn't it obvious that he'll go there and talk about how they are the corrupt media houses which promote propaganda and help the rich acquire power which they'll use for their own profit.
" Jeez I wonder why they don't host him? " The most likely explanation is that in reality, Chomsky is just a Linguistics Professor, with ZERO Real World Experience in ANY OTHER field.
He has said why and the technical term I'm at a loss for. But his point was his answers are far to expansive for network t.v.. One must speak very concisely and not talk on something that cant be explained away in a very simple way and in a brief amount of time. During Chomsky's talks the amount of content is colossal in comparison to network t.v. in relative amount of time. Besides that popular news is designed for an 8 year old comprehension level. You might have to actually be 10 to understand mr. Chomsky.
At least this shows that Chomsky will engage with whoever and that's a lesson that needs to be learned. Whether Google learned anything is doubtful, but you've gotta try.
The notion that Google will "learn" something doesn't make sense. They are a hugely wealthy/powerful entity that is set to autopilot: survive and maximize profit. That drives their decisions. Corporations are almost, in a sense, inherently evil. If they lose sight of their maxim to maximize profit then they'll be finished by their competitors.
Disappointing - only because the interviewer is ill-suited to conduct an interview with a world renowned intellectual. He should have just given Noam the runway to give an uninterrupted lecture.
That would have made google not look so obviously horrible in fact. You can always count on evil to rear it's own ugly head for all to see though, lols.
2022: always relevant and even prophetic. Chomsky is a good human being and are lucky to have him saying the truth. We need these beacons otherwise just look around...it's depressing that we have leaders that are fake.
It pains me how bad the interviewer is. One of the poorest listeners I have seen hosting a talk at Google. Chomsky deserves much much better, at the very least
The interviewer ignores the fact advertising is not monetization. Magazines and newspapers were supported by advertising. Google employs monetization which is basically devious aka data mining & tracking and other intrusions into the private sphere. It is algorithmic. And capital intensive. A market system based on creating consumer need, not choice.
17:55 .... As a political guy. Man.... I wish was alive at that time to have political debates. Despite the fact that it was during the Great Depression. 😂
I'm kind of surprised he agreed to come to do the interview. After it seems like Google has a symbiotic relationship with media and in particular news media and how it has taken over the role of curating and shaping how people consume news and they've become the guardians of all information in general.
He pretty blatantly calls them out on their bullshit at least half a dozen times throughout this interview. Especially from the last response in the video it's pretty clear that he is trying to get them out of their self-congratulatory bubble about making the world better and actually focus on real issues affecting humanity.
I've seen some guests with a good Google interview like Colbert's, some with a really good and interesting ones and the ones that are amazing... But Noam's?... He is way over their league. I was able to distinguish the forced switch of topic bcs his view was becoming dangerous and or enlightening.
yes the interviewer was a smug kid. Chomsky did not let that deter him. He disseminated alot of info here and his talk about his early life is really fascinating. Capitalism is dying. Noam is one of our greatest free thinkers and spearheads this message. Blessings.
Although Chomsky is his own thoughtful, insightful and knowledgeable self, I get the sense that the interviewer was ill prepared and even a bit arrogant in his approach.
By design. Listen to his one constantly repeated answer google allowed him to use anytime Noam made a point he couldn't answer in a way that didn't show google as the wage slave promoters they are.
I'm curious about some of the jump cuts. There were a little obvious in places. Especially where Noam was talking about advertising and then out of the blue, the host just says, "fine, we just won't do any advertising" like he was upset at what he was hearing. I didn't hear anything that warranted that sort of response - but there was a jump cut there. We were looking right at the host and then he was suddenly in a different position and all upset.
Some good points in other comments about the interviewer. You'd think Google would do more to try to keep the 'wizard' software engineers hidden behind the curtain if their capacity for engaging thought and insight is so poor. This guy sounds well-intentioned but what's he thinking about? He comes across like any run-of-the-mill hack interviewer on NPR or CNN or NBC. It isn't an issue of native intellectual capacity but of a frame of mind (something Chomsky alludes to when he suggests that you'll find more insight among teenagers or little-educated workers who have not been taught color inside the lines. "Tell me more about. . . " That's a stock line for interviewers who can't be bothered to do any work researching the subject.
For god sake might as well had have Teen Beat interview the guy, if this is what google is able to produce it makes you wonder how they got where they are.
Chomsky [to Google engineers, marketing execs, etc.]: 'why not do some of the serious thing things...', i.e., stop obsessing on the 'bottom line' for a few minutes...
I can't help but feel the vapid interview questions were planned by Google for fear of being called out. Noam Chomsky on Google: "Google, Facebook, and the rest - those are commercial institutions. Their constituency is basically advertisers and they would like to establish the kinds of controls over their consumers that will be beneficial to their business model [and] enable them to get advertising. That has very serious, distorting effects."
Who in the hell wrote off on choosing this software engineer to interview Noam Chomsky?! What a wasted opportunity! Please Google, don't ever trot this nimrod out for this task again.
@@elv3a424 : It was an interview until Noam purposefully changed it into an accusation (and rightly so) and the interviewer had one pre-planned answer he was allowed by his superiors should the situation arise. The exact same pre-planned answer he used for literally everything, lols.
I can't believe the interviewer had the audacity to ask Noam Chomsky what he would ask a room full of googlers after an hour of Noam Chomsky giving him so much information I don't even think the interviewer was paying attention to anything he said it's sad this is Google supposed to be one of the top companies in the world and at the end they get told by one of the greatest living intellectuals to do something serious got to love Noam Chomsky.
What happened after the WW2 that changed the city landscape and life as you knew it from before hand? I will tell you, the bankers won the war so everything became a product you could market including public safety and politicians.
This is exactly why the U.S. didn't enter the war until we were directly attacked and they couldn't not enter. Before that, their strategy was to wait until all of Europe was pretty much an empty husk, then we could take over easily. In Fact, Noam discusses exactly that here: ua-cam.com/video/7PdJ9TAdTdA/v-deo.html
Google couldn't find anyone capable of holding a conversation with Chomsky? That half-assed introduction by the guy reading wiki from his damn phone says it all. They really couldn't care less. Google was only interested in having Noam Chomsky's name associated with their product, and the interview itself was a sham. There really is no limit to how low they're willing to go. Kind of proves Chomsky's point though doesn't it..
Mind blown: Noam Chomsky speaks at Google about how they ought not exist, and every point he makes is over the head of the audience. Pure gold. That end of the interview was a mic drop, gut-splitting laughter on my end. Uncomfortable laughter among the KoolAid-drinkers in the audience.
They’re the most lost. the general public doesn’t have the false sense of security and corporate daycare like Google provides its employees. We see through the mirage.
Interviewer: "What can google do about fake news?"
Chomsky: "Not contribute to it"
Ouch....
I literally spit soda out of my mouth when he said that. This poor interviewer is so out-classed intellectually, I feel bad for him.
@@brandinshaeffer8970 Hahaha, where he said that? Cause I cant find it, I dont want to listen to yet another of his lectures, the dude can create a sentence of one hour when they ask him for the simple answer, hahahaha!
Yes Chomsky sure does know, ' fake news '; just look at all the nonsense contained in Chomsky's own books & lectures all these years! Smh
@@mck1972 We got a FOX News sub here folks. Hey maybe you should go back and read manufacturing consent.
@@tijuanaforeplay8232 ,
(SIGH) You know what happens when you ASSUME-Right?
I NEVER said I was a fan of Fox News!
And I actually HAVE read, ' Manufacturing Consent ', which, in reality, is ITSELF a perfect example of Fake News! Smh
Jeez Google. One of the most brilliant men around and THIS is the best interviewer you could have come up with?
By design.
I was wondering the same thing :D Also the guy who introduced him, spoke three sentences and had to read on the mobile...
Absolutely shocked or not perhaps ?
YNWA!!!
Interviewer: "Do you have anything that you would like to ask US?"
Chomsky: "Why not do some of the serious things?"
*Apply water to burnt area*
indeed, most of the commenters don't have the brains of a googler, and don't have the commitments, knowledge, and achievement of chomsky. i mean we all are free to comment, but you know, it's more getting it outta ya and less getting it into someone else's brain. so, perhaps chomsky's last advise is indeed useful to many people, we all should do something more useful. (not some die-hard fan of chomsky, i mean, alpha0 plays general game of chess (&go&shogi) in an entirely different way conjectured by him couple of yrs ago. and he himself would probably want us to think critically rather than blindly following ideas, even his own ones.)
Yea boy that is fire!
yourself included @@Mikey-lj2kq
@Filthy N'Wah pouring cold water on a burn is the first thing that should be done before burn dressings, skin grafts, etc. don't talk shit about medicine when you know nothing.
‘Hold burned skin under cool (not cold) running water or immerse in cool water until pain subsides.’
if only he could live another 50 years
Romper Chomper is still sharp as a tack. If only, we need him more now than ever.
absolutely. Progressive greetings from Germany..
Hallo German friend. Australians admire your country a lot.
akbar rauf or 100!!!
amen to that
20:05
Chomsky: The working class, the rising working class, had its own institutions of education and culture, which was significant; a lot of that has been destroyed- in all kinds of ways. Google doesn’t help.
Google Interviewer: Happy to do our part.
I knew someone else had to notice that part!
Guy shielded himself with a simple joke :/
yeh- his only defense was a nervous reaction and thoughtless and glib remark
I'm so high and can't figure out what this comment means haha, it it sarcastic?
His flip reply sounded both defensive--"I know we're part of the problem, but please don't point it out"--and offensive--"Hey, don't fuck with us; we're on top, we're immune, and we're cool; just look at what I'm wearing!" Also, can we talk about the background noise. It's like doors opening and closing, rustling sounds, people moving around, and the interviewer looking over Chomsky's shoulder. So disrespectful.
@@caballosinnombre3981 Yeah, he should have stood up and gone into a teary declaration about how he is right and Google should change its ways and the establishment should just fold. Because, that would work.
It is sadly evident throughout most of this video that the interviewer has absolutely no idea what Chomsky is talking about.
" It is sadly evident throughout most of this video that the interviewer has absolutely no idea what Chomsky is talking about. "
Then both the interviewer and Chomsky are in the same boat...smh
CHOMSKY IS SUCH A CONVOLUTED OBSCURANTIST, THAT CHOMSKY HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF! ENOUGH OF THIS OBSCENE HAGIOGRAPHY!
@@mck1972 oh yeah...chomsky is a real intellectual lightweight. lol.
@@brandinshaeffer8970 ,
You're missing the point here:
The SMARTER that Chomsky is, then WORSE Chomsky looks for spending his entire life merely criticizing everyone else from the sidelines!
M CK I don’t understand your point. Unfortunately, since power isn’t a contest for truth or intelligence, the intelligent aren’t automatically empowered. Chomsky is doing everything he can within his power, but he doesn’t get much since nobody’s listening. Fox news, CNN, major news networks and other ways people receive information pretend he doesn’t exist. His chances for political power is zero for obvious reasons. [70 years of soundbites to push in a media against him as well as “radical” left of center ideas (e.g Authority has to prove it’s legitimacy to exist)]
The last question I think put a bold period in this discussion:
Interviewer: ... our software engineers and our advertisement experts and our, you know, market experts from different fields - do you have anything that you would like to ask US?
Chomsky: Why not do some of the serious things?
The interviewer was evidently lost. Chomsky was talking about how advertisement is being done all wrong, and the interviewer then tried to impress him by telling him he had a room full of advertisement experts.
next on google talks: Steven hawking, the acclaimed scientist will be interviewed by kim Kardashian
yesss. Your comment is gold.
@@julieseely ,
At least KK does not pretend to know what she's talking about-So in that respect she is way ahead of Chomsky. Smh
@@mck1972 fuck off shill, you've been found out
@@colaturkalures ,
Don't Shoot the Messenger if you yourself can't face the reality of the Message...
@@mck1972 You live in an alternate reality propped up by alt right talking heads.
Noam Chomsky being interviewed by a rock
Chomsky, my hero. Google listen to him. Thanks for bringing this great thinker to expand my little world. Love you Mr Chomsky.
If you want some new challenges I suggest Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Corbett, Dave McGowan, Gavin McInnes.
Stefan Molyneux,Gavin McInnes.? i take it the others are right-wing white male pricks too?
Good guess. The only one with an IQ above room temperature on that list is Jordan Peterson, who makes a living off of preaching to sexually inept white guys and being confused about epistemology.
Nope, Peterson is a protestant (which btw - more or less directly - accounts for some of these public filings for intellectual bankruptcy he loves to put out on UA-cam).
Well, I can tell you this: all these "right wing white males" get more views in an hour than Chomsky gets in a day. And they do not have the support of Google. I do not even share their oppinion on everything. But I sure am curious about how long you will be able to afford avoiding them. Good luck!
Good lord, take two minutes to learn enough about your guest to introduce him by memory rather than reading it off of your phone.
Or just know who Chomsky is from memory because he's probably the most famous public intellectual still alive.
19:34 very telling editpoint, Noam was about to talk about wage slavery.
I noticed a number of those!
Wooooooow, you’re right. That “selling yourself” line they cut to is part of his usual wage slavery bit. Fuck Google.
From another Chomsky interview:
“Just think of the forms of authority and domination that exist in our societies. One of the dominant ones is wage labor. If you go back to the early days of the industrial revolution, in England and the US and other countries, people who were being driven into the industrial system bitterly condemned it. In the US in the mid-19th century, when the industrial revolution was beginning, working people described wage labor as equivalent to slavery. The only difference was that wage labor was temporary, whereas slavery was permanent. Actually that was such a widespread idea that it was a slogan of the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln accepted it. When Northern workers went to war in the Civil War, that was one of their slogans. [They wanted] to eliminate chattel slavery-you know, literal slavery-and what they called wage slavery. No influence of Marx or European radicalism-this just came straight out of the popular understanding of free, independent people who felt their rights were being taken away by being forced into a system where they have to sell themselves to survive.”
Google employs many people as contractors. It's pretty obvious why they'd censor this.
ua-cam.com/video/AkvPDx2qNjM/v-deo.html
Totally. Noam once mentioned how the nyt and WaPo chose not to publish Arafat's peace gestures to Israel - because they know they aren't just reporting news, they're 'preserving history' for future academics.
@stop immigration : Have you ever considered exactly who profits from driving our wages down? People like trump, and other billionaires so obviously profit, whereas immigrants are just trying to survive. Also, the amount of immigrants even under the Obama administration was a tiny drop in the bucket of this problem. Far far more substantial is the fact that conservative backed corporations take all the jobs overseas.
Immigrants for the most part just do the jobs that Americans consider beneath them. You know, they are trying to just live and feed their family. How is that so wrong comparatively?
Btw if you are not full blooded American Indian, *you are an immigrant.* This is an indisputable fact. But even then, literally anyone outside of Africa is an immigrant and that has been proven both archeologically, and by DNA testing. This is no longer just another hypothesis or simple-minded assumption like monotheism for instance.
Also the conservative party is largely responsible for driving down wages by doing their level best to destroy labor unions, witch aaare obviously something the wealthy elite are dead set against, because it puts more of the money back into the hands of the people, their workers. Yet the greed is still not satiated. No, they still move the jobs overseas after destroying our living wage (witch is also slavery) by destroying the labor unions. So you see, as a wage slave you are worth exactly *nothing* to them.
Now I'm bagging on the conservatives yes, but most of the democratic politicians are also conservatives, and secretly support the *more openly hostile policies* of the republican party. Either way, you are a wage slave and they don't give a flying rat's sphincter about you.
Sadly this leaves us all with two choices, at least when it comes to presidential elections in particular:
1) Vote for those who secretly care nothing for us.
2) Vote for those who openly care nothing for us.
While one may *seem* more honest, consider this analogy: would you rather live in a city where murder is openly condoned, or one where it is secretly condoned?
Because if murder is openly condoned, there will so obviously be many more murders committed.
I was debating politics earlier with some always-trumpers and one said, and rightfully so I might add: _"Sleepy Joe won't save America."_
No, _Sleepy Joe_ won't save America. Joe Biden is just another conservative democrat obviously. *But,* voting for Joe Biden absolutely 100% *will* save America from trump's fascism and wanna be dictatorship. That is simply an obvious and easily demonstrable fact: remove trump, and you remove his outward fascism and wannabe dictatorship. It could not be any more simple.
But I leave people with a warning: trump is a symptom, not the disease. Racism (and it's accompanying conspiracy hypotheses) are *the delusions that got trump elected.*
Chomsky rightly criticized Google at least twice and in both cases it went in one ear and out the other.
20:05
Chomsky: The working class, the rising working class, had its own institutions of education and culture, which was significant; a lot of that has been destroyed- in all kinds of ways. Google doesn’t help.
Google Interviewer: Happy to do our part.
It's like this interviewer genuinely didn't expect that this leftist Chomsky wouldn't support Chinese style censorship and control of the internet. Yeah, offend the advertisers, go back to bed grandpa! We only want to do sensible things like block unapproved information.
Yes we are fortunate to have Chomsky to denounce Capitalism!
It's not like Chomsky himself SELLS his books for a PROFIT, and makes a SALARY as a Professor at MIT, which charges TUITION to Students-Right???
-Hey, Wait a Minute...
Matt D
wow you must have been watching a different interview then the rest of us....He didnt say anything about supporting Chinese style censorship. And sure why not offend the advertisers...its about time we offended them for a change instead of the other way around.
@@mck1972 wow you area freaking idiot......Like the rest of us Chomsky has to live in a capitalist society....So he needs money. That doesnt mean he is supporting it or being a hypocrite because he's trying to get by in a society that he didnt create. Did you think he should stay dirt poor and not send his own kids to good schools or try to give the a good life.
The best way to improve this talk is to prevent the interviewer from saying anything at all.
To be fair, getting an interviewer in the first place would have been the wiser choice. This guy certainly is not one.
I could listen to this man speak all day. I would listen to him speak about anything! Literally a living legend.
Try Homer Simpson instead ?
He's probably more useful !
@@2msvalkyrie529 😂😂 that tells me a lot about your level of intellect. I’m good bro.
Great talk, I would appreciate the interviewer to run a discussion and not just asking questions which have nothing in common to previous words of Chomsky
Noam is genius how he responds though. He didn't let the googlee off the hook at all. I love that, lols.
Prof Noam’s memory is amazing. At one point in the interview, I thought he really forgot the rest of what he was quoting but that’s exactly what the quote is. From another source: ‘Senator Mark Hanna said in 1895: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is."’
Thank you google for democratically choosing your guests. This man is one of the most important men alive, but likely even more important in the future. And he is not invited to mainstream media anymore.
This is an edited version. I wonder what's been cut out?
According to another comment, at 19:34 there's a cut, which occurs when Chomsky is using his usual segue into his description of wage slavery.
@@camellia_black : Yes indeed. I read the same comment, but had also noticed the "sneaky" editing google so blatantly did.
Besides being an intellectual monument, he is such a lovely human being ❤️❤️❤️
we need more discussions by informed people regarding why our democracy is where it is (not working for the large majority of citizens), how we got here, and how to change it.
i guess you heard what Mr Chomsky was telling us!
This is probably the most crowded of all Google talks - after all, I first heard of Chomsky because of the application of his linguistic theory to compilers. Chomsky made compilers possible!
Google please interview Chomsky again. The subject of AI was a great point to explore further. Give Chomsky the respect he deserves. Sergey Brin or Larry Page should be talking to him.
These are interesting times and we need more thorough conversations like this. Give Chomsky the correct platform.
I keep coming back to this just to watch the interviewer. Amazing.
53:03 Chomsky's analysis of the 'perfect storm' mankind created left me breathless. The interviewer seems to have missed the point.
What point did the interviewer not miss? I can't think of one off hand.
Love the edit at 19:35 where Chomsky (surely) refers to the "factory girls'" judgement that wage labor was merely another form of slavery. They just flat cut it out. He probably also mentions how that position was the part of the Republican party platform at the time. Stay classy, Google.
wow, good spot. He says near the end that he already talked about the "factory girls" but i didn't remember hearing about it (although I have heard the story before).
Now why would google edit out the part where Noam talks about wage slavery?
I love how he gave a few jabs at Google. Incredible. He stays true regardless of the media he's on.
I thought I couldn't interview people in English as I'm not an native English speaker, maybe I can't catch the nuances of others' speech. After watching this interview, I feel, all of a sudden, much more confident of my skills ;-D
You can certainly do it. See how the Google kids get their jobs even though they don’t have anything profound to say? It’s more about conforming to the system. I’m not great at verbal communication either, but I have confidence in the quality and intention of my thoughts, so I like to write them down. Don’t let the barrier of speech stop you from fighting for what matters
"Switching gears for a moment..." Please, just go away.
I am offended that you are offended....you probably should frame things in terms of what you love rather than what you hate....in which case I would have said....you missed an opportunity to be explicit in describing a way his choice of mannerism could have been better made
@@bradmodd7856 Hey Brad.
In an explicit way: he is arrogant and patronising. His false chipper attitude is not a problem of mannerism but of orientation towards his interviewee, a lack of respect for the gravity of the topics raised. As such there is very little positive to say about him in this context. As for your offence, thats too bad, but ironic that you frame your comment by the modern boon of offence, and then continue to prescribe the way in which I comment should be through "love".
Tone deaf interviewer
@@GingerDrums : One could assume that Brad just made a wrong assumption about who you were referring to. I say that in part because I was unsure at first too, as I did not remember that specific comment even though I did indeed listen to the entire video. To be fair to you as well, I often assume people will know witch "side" I am referring to. So I am trying to make sure I am very clear about such things.
That said, I do agree with your assessment.
"Ads is needed for publication"
"No, that's not true"...
... I wonder if this host will quit Google and rediscover its tenure at Google was nothing but a capitalism lie ...
I honestly have gotten the strong feeling that google engineers are painfully naive. They think they're serving the world with some kind of moral compass, without realizing they are part of a profit generating business.
35:15-41:15 The interviewer asks: "Why aren't there more Noam Chomsky's in the world"... I like how Noam Chomsky answers that and the follow-up questions...
This guy has no idea how privileged he is to interview this extraordinary man.
ENOUGH OF THE BUM-LICKING HAGIOGRAPHY! YOU OBSCENE SYCOPHANT!!! WAKE-UP!
Who is the guy that trolled Google with inviting Chomsky? He is a living representation of what is wrong with google.
Or rare instance of what is right.
Google should be a public utility.
google is a public toilet.
Padraic loingsigh , meaning?
@@donfox1036 Google "public utility". Get it? *Google* 😀
Bad interview. You don't interview someone like Chomsky with prepared question; it's an insult. You could have emailed him your questions and published his answers. If you are not smart enough to improvise questions live based on the direction of the interview, you shouldn't be interviewing Chomsky.
Thought the same thing and the way he started the interview just made me cringe.
Yeah, really I bet chomsky gets freaking tired of the same intro and questions, he should of just said, don't you guys own youtube, look up my response.
Christopher Hitchens on Chomsky: 'My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States … In some awful way, his regard for the underdog has mutated into support for mad dogs. This is not at all like watching the implosion of an obvious huckster and jerk like Michael Moore, who would have made a perfectly good Brownshirt populist. The collapse of Chomsky feels to me more like tragedy.'
Matthew Singh-Dosanjh - I love Hitchens, but someone who supported the Iraqi war and its resultant consequences should look into the mirror. No guru is correct all the time but the general perspective of Chomsky will stand the test of time... as will that of Hitchens.
On your first point, I couldn't disagree more- it's those that opposed the 2003 liberation of Iraq that have all the explaining to do. If you like, I'm happy to parrot Hitchens' argument in favour of the 2003 military action.
noam chomsky is my hero and my inspiration .Chomsky,Bernie, Corbyn the holy trinity
crusty old socialist that haven't quite realised the world has moved on. Has any one missed the irony of Chomsky giving a talk at google?
all those crusty old socialists are most popular politicians in their respective countries, not to mention the grassroots movements that sprung around them. So what the fuck are you talking about?
ok mate - undergraduates tweeting quotes by them and half reading their books doesn't really constitute a movement.
right, so you haven't been paying attention: i said they're the most popular in their countries not only universities.
It even pierced through the conservative bubble:
insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/11/most-least-popular-us-senators-morning-consult-poll-bernie-sanders-mitch-mcconnell
*edited to add link.
no - you haven't been paying attention. Corbyn will lose my a wide margin tomorrow, Bernie was crushed by his own party and Chomsky isn't even in politics. In fact that particular old capitalist is quite deft being a good ol' capitalist. Have a look at this: www.hoover.org/research/noam-chomsky-closet-capitalist
Mr Chomsky is the most outstanding scholar of our time! I watched his every interview with 100% concentration because I don't want to miss out on all his pearl of wisdom. I salute all the works he has done for humanity!
Can we see the full interview, please?
Not if google has any say, lols.
There was clearly a crappy edit to delete what Noam said about wage slavery. That should tell everyone all they need to know about google.
"Harvard Faculty" at around 23:50 = Alan Dershowitz in case anyone's wondering.
Great question at the end Noam!
Why aren't there more Noam Chomskys? 35:05
I wish they had brought the Julian Assange situation up.
Man, I absolutely love it when they call Prof. Dr. Chomsky a dissident. That means I am normal and the establishment can have me arrested, Yet!
Google could do better selecting another interviewer to be able to handle Chomsky talk.
This is by design. It's easier for them to just look dumb sometimes when faced with unerring truths that don't fit their desire to oppress people.
This is a pretty good representation of Google, we include everyone! And although their opinions might be pertinent and essential, we will pretend to listen and continue to go after collecting information and selling advertisements, but believe ourselves to be working towards the greater good, didn't you see us feign interest during that time the man came with the essential insight we completely ignored?
Don't forget the obvious edit of Noam talking about wage slavery.
My hero!
how IT company like Google mess the sound up!
Purposefully.
Noam Chomsky has been saying "ok boomer" even before boomers were born
*No. He never once said that, period.* Ageism is just another form of bigotry and essentially no different than racism or genderism. I doubt it was your intention, but you just became part of the problem in this _Misinformation Age._ I suggest you reconsider for the sake of all of us, especially those who are younger and yet unborn. Spread information and critical thought processes, not bigoted memes.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 ok boomer
In 1996 George Carlin called out the Boomers, too
Holy cr... imagine after inviting Chomsky to dinner and after he arrives at one's home he starts to criticise one's family.
Cheers to, dare I say, the greatest modern American dissident.
Good to hear Chomsky once again. Looking from outside over a long time, it is difficult to trust USA when once upon a time US was almost like God for some of us.
Love this guy! Such an inspiration!
Respect to Google for giving space and publishing views that are obviously contrary to its interests. Chomsky may be opinionated and not always right; however, he surely knows facts and has lived through stuff he talks about. Nice.
Mr Chomsky has worked at MIT since it was built. In 1956 he changed a lightbulb, followed by an afternoon sweeping the playground in 1968.
Ha ha. Funny.
Comparing the contributions of Noam Chomsky to those of janitors is an insult-
-To Janitors!
Its pretty obvious to me the interviewer is full of himself and he's not too happy Noam is telling it like it is. Too bad, so sad. Chomsky tells it like it is (in his very sweet and humble way). He's my hero.
What's up with all the feedback underneath? It's driving me nuts. Get it together Google audio engineers........
Chomsky at Google?!
It was very good to see that.
GraemeMarkNI He had other two talks/interviews such as this in the past in Google.
clever move, keep your enemies closer!
Great last question
Interviewer to the guy who devised the concepts fundamental to all programming languages: 'I'm a software engineer and I have nothing to do with linguistics.' - Does not compute... *brrrzzzl*
(Sorry, the interview wasn't bad at all, but stuff like this makes you want to put a vise to your balls...)
You make computer go beep boop beep boop!
Your Owner Yes just shows you that what is called Software Engineer these days, even at Google means someone who knows how to use computer code.
i smacked myself in heard when he said that. interviewer was sort of a jack ass.
interviewer did fine IMHO, as he obviously comes from a very different place/point of view. It would be frustrating to interview anyone & have them refuse to answer questions posed, and instead answer on what they please, as Chomsky increasingly does as it progresses. I get how & why Chomsky does that, but I think the interviewer handled it pretty well. Credit to Google for even doing this: not many corps would invite Chomsky to slap them in the face like this.
I thought exactly the same thing. Software guy who doesn't understand the connection of how programming LANGUAGES are related to Linguistics.
Furthermore, it was a bad interview, the interviewer was not prepared and at times down right disrespectful.
"Google doesn't help." Wow, a very blunt and to-the-point comment. I have been citing Chomsky in my undergraduate Literature and Linguistics classes but I was not aware that he is that active.
by now Chomsky has been at Google multiple times and I find it kind of surprising.
Three times, to be exact. And not surprising at all.
even though I do admire more parties, I do find it surprising. from both sides, invitees and invited.
Not surprising at all.
Corporations are not totalitarian enough yet to keep him from speaking to it's workers.
Ricardo Ruiz well as one of "the workers" I was actually asked to bring him to Google to speak.
Excellent talk. Thanks google
wow Chomsky at Google!!!!
Yes it's really unfortunate that the interviewer was not more prepared to make real use of Chomsky's time by asking better questions...
By design.
Why is Adam Eget interviewing the great Noam Chomsky? ('Mr", right)
I have yet to see Noam Chomsky on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN... Jeez I wonder why they don't host him?
I know for a fact that Noam has been on CNN and ABC. Not sure about the other two.
Isn't it obvious that he'll go there and talk about how they are the corrupt media houses which promote propaganda and help the rich acquire power which they'll use for their own profit.
" Jeez I wonder why they don't host him? "
The most likely explanation is that in reality, Chomsky is just a Linguistics Professor, with ZERO Real World Experience in ANY OTHER field.
He is consistently ignored by mainstream US media for decades, because he is critical and tries to uncover powerful crooks
He has said why and the technical term I'm at a loss for. But his point was his answers are far to expansive for network t.v.. One must speak very concisely and not talk on something that cant be explained away in a very simple way and in a brief amount of time. During Chomsky's talks the amount of content is colossal in comparison to network t.v. in relative amount of time. Besides that popular news is designed for an 8 year old comprehension level. You might have to actually be 10 to understand mr. Chomsky.
WOTH WATCHING TO THE END / SHALOM !
At least this shows that Chomsky will engage with whoever and that's a lesson that needs to be learned. Whether Google learned anything is doubtful, but you've gotta try.
The notion that Google will "learn" something doesn't make sense. They are a hugely wealthy/powerful entity that is set to autopilot: survive and maximize profit. That drives their decisions. Corporations are almost, in a sense, inherently evil. If they lose sight of their maxim to maximize profit then they'll be finished by their competitors.
THAT ENDING!
Disappointing - only because the interviewer is ill-suited to conduct an interview with a world renowned intellectual. He should have just given Noam the runway to give an uninterrupted lecture.
That would have made google not look so obviously horrible in fact. You can always count on evil to rear it's own ugly head for all to see though, lols.
😍🌹🌈Noam Chomsky 🌻☺️🐸🌸
2022: always relevant and even prophetic. Chomsky is a good human being and are lucky to have him saying the truth. We need these beacons otherwise just look around...it's depressing that we have leaders that are fake.
53:08 Question from the public (much deeper than the presenter's questions).
It pains me how bad the interviewer is. One of the poorest listeners I have seen hosting a talk at Google. Chomsky deserves much much better, at the very least
By design.
Noam Chomsky ought to write memoirs.
The interviewer ignores the fact advertising is not monetization. Magazines and newspapers were supported by advertising. Google employs monetization which is basically devious aka data mining & tracking and other intrusions into the private sphere. It is algorithmic. And capital intensive. A market system based on creating consumer need, not choice.
17:55 .... As a political guy. Man.... I wish was alive at that time to have political debates. Despite the fact that it was during the Great Depression. 😂
Did anyone notice that some parts of the interview was cut out? Look closely at 10:53
I'm kind of surprised he agreed to come to do the interview. After it seems like Google has a symbiotic relationship with media and in particular news media and how it has taken over the role of curating and shaping how people consume news and they've become the guardians of all information in general.
He pretty blatantly calls them out on their bullshit at least half a dozen times throughout this interview. Especially from the last response in the video it's pretty clear that he is trying to get them out of their self-congratulatory bubble about making the world better and actually focus on real issues affecting humanity.
I've seen some guests with a good Google interview like Colbert's, some with a really good and interesting ones and the ones that are amazing... But Noam's?... He is way over their league.
I was able to distinguish the forced switch of topic bcs his view was becoming dangerous and or enlightening.
Yea, clearly they did not want to have Noam's views on wage slavery known to the public.
yes the interviewer was a smug kid. Chomsky did not let that deter him. He disseminated alot of info here and his talk about his early life is really fascinating. Capitalism is dying. Noam is one of our greatest free thinkers and spearheads this message. Blessings.
Man this interviewer is such a perfect example of the very things that Noam is critical of xD
Although Chomsky is his own thoughtful, insightful and knowledgeable self, I get the sense that the interviewer was ill prepared and even a bit arrogant in his approach.
He seemed to know he is supposed to respect Noam, but not sure why.
By design. Listen to his one constantly repeated answer google allowed him to use anytime Noam made a point he couldn't answer in a way that didn't show google as the wage slave promoters they are.
I'm curious about some of the jump cuts. There were a little obvious in places. Especially where Noam was talking about advertising and then out of the blue, the host just says, "fine, we just won't do any advertising" like he was upset at what he was hearing. I didn't hear anything that warranted that sort of response - but there was a jump cut there. We were looking right at the host and then he was suddenly in a different position and all upset.
Some good points in other comments about the interviewer. You'd think Google would do more to try to keep the 'wizard' software engineers hidden behind the curtain if their capacity for engaging thought and insight is so poor. This guy sounds well-intentioned but what's he thinking about? He comes across like any run-of-the-mill hack interviewer on NPR or CNN or NBC. It isn't an issue of native intellectual capacity but of a frame of mind (something Chomsky alludes to when he suggests that you'll find more insight among teenagers or little-educated workers who have not been taught color inside the lines. "Tell me more about. . . " That's a stock line for interviewers who can't be bothered to do any work researching the subject.
For god sake might as well had have Teen Beat interview the guy, if this is what google is able to produce it makes you wonder how they got where they are.
Chomsky [to Google engineers, marketing execs, etc.]: 'why not do some of the serious thing things...', i.e., stop obsessing on the 'bottom line' for a few minutes...
Who is the candidate Professor Chomsky talking about at 10:27? Thanks in advance!
Noam, there's ways to prevent the ads from loading
From a man who negated the communist genocide in Cambodia.
I love how he doesn't ever apologise for his (informed) opinions.
I can't help but feel the vapid interview questions were planned by Google for fear of being called out. Noam Chomsky on Google: "Google, Facebook, and the rest - those are commercial institutions. Their constituency is basically advertisers and they would like to establish the kinds of controls over their consumers that will be beneficial to their business model [and] enable them to get advertising. That has very serious, distorting effects."
Chomsky's intellectual superiority compared to the interviewer is pretty obvious
Who in the hell wrote off on choosing this software engineer to interview Noam Chomsky?! What a wasted opportunity! Please Google, don't ever trot this nimrod out for this task again.
Interviewer doesn't have counter-arguments to what Chomsky is arguing; he resorts to what he mistakes as wit, but is really just sarcasm.
It's an interview, not a debate. Counter-arguments would be out of place.
@@elv3a424 : It was an interview until Noam purposefully changed it into an accusation (and rightly so) and the interviewer had one pre-planned answer he was allowed by his superiors should the situation arise. The exact same pre-planned answer he used for literally everything, lols.
I can't believe the interviewer had the audacity to ask Noam Chomsky what he would ask a room full of googlers after an hour of Noam Chomsky giving him so much information I don't even think the interviewer was paying attention to anything he said it's sad this is Google supposed to be one of the top companies in the world and at the end they get told by one of the greatest living intellectuals to do something serious got to love Noam Chomsky.
What happened after the WW2 that changed the city landscape and life as you knew it from before hand? I will tell you, the bankers won the war so everything became a product you could market including public safety and politicians.
This is exactly why the U.S. didn't enter the war until we were directly attacked and they couldn't not enter. Before that, their strategy was to wait until all of Europe was pretty much an empty husk, then we could take over easily. In Fact, Noam discusses exactly that here: ua-cam.com/video/7PdJ9TAdTdA/v-deo.html
Google couldn't find anyone capable of holding a conversation with Chomsky? That half-assed introduction by the guy reading wiki from his damn phone says it all. They really couldn't care less. Google was only interested in having Noam Chomsky's name associated with their product, and the interview itself was a sham. There really is no limit to how low they're willing to go. Kind of proves Chomsky's point though doesn't it..
3 years later and google still hasn’t learn anything from Noam
No other description is appropriate than "What a man, what a genius." Has Chomsky ever obtained any Nobel prize? If not, what a shame!