Yeah................. Original American indeed. "Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[24] His father was William "Zev" Chomsky, an Ashkenazi Jew originally from Ukraine who had fled to the United States in 1913. " That you even dare call him an American. And what is brilliant? Mentioning something which was already written in the newspapers in 1940? Wauw, brilliant.
The most frightening thing of all is that even Chomsky, with all of his truly exceptional knowledge and eloquence, his one hundred books and countless public talks, is powerless. He will go down in history as one who analyzed and predicted with crystal clarity but could change nothing.
@@medicuswashington9870 could be but also people are not standing behind the true ones. Crowds when determined win. Say he runs for president, and at the same time a revolution erupts calling for social justice, end of war, free education and healthcare, consumer protection and universal basic income. Revolution wins and elect Chomsky for president. Do you think anyone could stop it? The problem though is when people are not ready for change. There are many who like the status quo and will protect corrupt politicians with everything they have. A poor White living off the grid and on welfare still supports Trump. There is no substitute for education and common sense. Some people just don’t have.
He spectacularly failed to predict or even face the brutal reality of the Khmer Rouge, and continued to downplay their crimes even as the evidence mounted. He was far from perfect, far from infallible.
I actually like it, ''la mise en scène'', the red chair, the low angle ... All with his nonchalace, the way he sits, documents in hands it just gives a fatherly tutoring vibe
Sadly not, but rightfully should have been. Crooks rule at the end. Politics doesn’t need righteous moralist leaders. It has always been that way and I am afraid it will continue to be that way. Meaningful change happens when people reorganize in smaller groups and come up with solutions that don’t need government funding, approval or blessing. It could be done, but why people like Chomsky were too consumed in the intellectual work that they forgot to craft community solutions?
That is the most chilling implication in the whole matter. We have lost a group of free thinking people in this nation. They are still lost in the year 2001. It seems, even during current events, they try to find answers to questions in an event that happened almost 12 years ago like some sort of mental time loop.
Good on you! He's an intelligent guy and, even though he can sometimes be on the dry side and hard to stay focused on sometimes, he's well worth listening to.
He already has even though here in America for obvious reasons mainstream mediaites won't book him. I studied him in college during the Sixties. Since then, his reputation as one of the most brilliant minds to ever have walked this planet has spread globally.
As humans we have individuals like Noam time n time again bringing awareness to people with power. Hopefully great leaders like Dalai Lama will have a greater impact on humanity. Teaching humans at Tashi Namgyal Academy school jointly. Hope is there to dream. Might is right, ganging up and compelling individuals will be proved wrong by the leader Dalai Lama. His wisdom has already proven great in Sikkim my prayers to humans. Love and peace to all
Good to see someone pointing that out. Regarding the monetary system and RBE as proposed by TVP. TZM do well at highlighting the shortfalls of the monetary system aswell. If it weren't for Addendum and Moving Forward many of us would be oblivious to these shortfalls.
Nicely said. While I don't take everything Chomsky says at face value and without reflection, I appreciate his ability for critical thinking and he has, without a doubt, offered value to our (generalization coming..) dumbed down population.
Interestingly Chomsky has described his upbringing as working class intellectual - that is most of his family were not formally educated but they educated themselves. Also he has described MIT has being better at foestering independent thought than other universities. So Chomsky seems to have benefited from particular cultural circumstances that have encouraged his own critical thought.
My opinion is that people should be held accountable for being manipulated. The trait of allowing themselves to be manipulated is a sign of a week spiritual soul. Which means these people have been week for thousands of years. The motif of: if you don't control your mind someone else will control it for you applies. If people hurt other people because they've allowed themselves to be manipulated, the hurt people deserve to be compensated and the perpetrators of the crime punished.
I did forget to comment on one thing you threw out there. I didn't say I'm older than you and therefore wiser. I said, effectively, that there is only one way to gain wisdom (and it isn't a given that a person will) and that's through time spent learning. There is no way around it. For the record, I've bothered to collect some because, like you, I have a good head on my shoulders and like to use it.
I will have to look into Richard Wolff. And as for Ron Paul, he may be a politician but he has a very thorough understanding of world history and economics. He is not like other politicians in this right, He will and has run circles around any other politician when it comes to intellectualism.
As he gets older, it's sad to think that someday in the relatively near future we will turn on the news to hear that he had died, never knowing if people took his words to heart and put the planet on a better path.
I am afraid of a world without Noam Chomsky. Although there are many great intellectual, Chris Hedges and others, nobody else does what Noam does--carefully and dispassionately laying out the reality of international and domestic politics and elite agendas.
"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online."
Don't forget the importance of actually, you know, organizing politically and economically and actually informing yourself and others about the strategical situation... That seems quite a bit more significant than what products you decide to consume within your life time. I would even be tempted to say that what you suggest is to an extent exactly what the powers that be expect you to do...
He might or might not have gems to pass on to the people. But I can only listen to him for about 10 minutes before his voice bores me to death. It's the verbal equivalent of counting sheep.
What a commanding genetic beginnings! Both his parents were Hebrew scholars!! Can you imagine that? What a dynamic cultural upbringing just by osmosis only, long before graduate and post graduate studies. And imagine his peers. They'd have to be of similar cultural level to even think of maintaining any friendship!
i heard rutgers was kind of a big wild place so i was kind of curious about what kind of people you could meet there. im curious is it really frat city like they say or do you find kids who want to have these conversations occasionally? i was always dissappointed in drews lack of a party scene. we had fuckin hippies who couldnt even find acid, it was depressing.
laying out where society had to go, as if the extremely complex decisions facing our society could ever be made by one man. But the second, and more important reason, is that in his view its more important to make poeple aware of what we dont need than potentially alienate them with his views. Alot of people, actually probably the majority in this country agree with some percentage of what he says, and he wants to keep the focus on people uniting and getting rid of what doesnt work so that
The towers can be seen falling down at freefall speed from several angles from several videos... also how do you explain building 7? Also the hijackers were more tied to Al Queda then Saudi Arabia
Looking from outside in at the act of war - it really goes back to understanding the inner human brain and the drivers of thought here within all of us; in order to lever this, as it has been going on far too long and is wide spread in leader animal misunderstood settings of behaviors. The difference is made by taking a stand which takes a heart alike Martin Luther King, as well as individuals in the world understanding the dynamics of the brain which in-act such childish leadership wants.
Knowledge is not out there for everyone to access, in fact there is such a mass of information that it takes a huge amount of time to process it properly and usually most people who have to work, care for their families, their homes, etc simply have no time for that. That's what you call "idiots". Time actually is only one factor of lack of political culture. I'm sure it could be analyzed as one big system of exclusion. That's why Chomsky is so popular, because he works for the people.
i understand that you might subconsciously absorb a few of his observations, perhaps even understanding them in the process. though do you think you'll be able to absorb his capabilities, the essence of his brilliance?
I live in Canada, where our culture is very much the same. Therefore I have every right and responsibility to critique it. And I agree, however I sense your reactions appear to be emotive and defensive. My intentions aren't to demean Americans/Canadians, but rather I am expressing my opinions on the state of Western culture (America being the center of it). It may be cynical, but not meant to insult people as a whole.
Listening as an African and more than 32 min into it, I haven't heard us talked about in this 'new world order' talk. Do we exist at all in this historian's view of the world?
I don't think it is our job to judge others, because it is a way of shifting responsibility and it doesn't change anything. Instead of looking for others to blame we should be looking at ourselves and how we by action/inaction contribute to the problem/solution.
(another one for my favorite-quotes-collection:) 55:42 " In the past 30 years the 'masters of mankind' --as [Adam] Smith [1723-1790] called them-- have abandoned any sentimental concern for the wellfare of their own societies, concentrating instead on short-term gain and huge bonusses... "
Really. I my self am an American yet I am open to other cultures, knowledgeable in the history of the world, and am willing to admit my country's misdoings. I oppose my government. I have no hate toward other countries like Iran. Explain that please.
Your solution is only partly right, because the other part is ignored by everyone; that part is government taxes which the government finds ways to funnel to special and mostly wealthy companies and people. Anyone who ignores that either doesn't know how politics works or think nothing can be done about what the government is doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA is the prime example!
I just watched this video & read the comments (above) it makes me sad to see that instead of articulating a common goal or a common language that will help us articulate oppression of government (which we cannot fight without a common language and goal) we are instead fighting each other online. Are we content within our global situation? Is the ruling class which governs a group that represents us? so why aren't we fighting this cause instead of each other?
Most of Chomskys' comments here are taken from his Hegemony or Survival book, and others. So, if you enjoy this get that book. A good read. Apart from that make your own mind up on his writings.
its pretty hard, because the world isnt "one" its comprised of billions of individuals that have billions of families, millions of communities, millions of corporations etc.
I'm not denying that there are smart Americans--rather I am criticizing American culture, where intellectualism is seen as a negative. Anyone who expresses themselves in an articulate manner, which challenges the social norms and conventional discourse is shunned. Look around you, man. People like Chomsky is merely proof that even an intellectual sewer that is American culture, beautiful flowers can still bloom.
You have to actually look at the information in front of you. If you read it carefully you see that, while there is some debate about whether the actual letter is in existence, there is no doubt that the information concerning the purpose of the first two wars and mention of the second, took place well before even the Great War. This part is indisputable. It is hard to get accurate information about almost anything of controversy, I find& there is a lot of disappearance of documents-cont...
I like being waken up by a slow patient voice. That's why I think his voice is a good one for waking up the world
Wow. Just looking at him gives me goose bumps. Brilliance at its finest. And he is an American!!!!!
Yeah.................
Original American indeed.
"Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[24] His father was William "Zev" Chomsky, an Ashkenazi Jew originally from Ukraine who had fled to the United States in 1913. "
That you even dare call him an American.
And what is brilliant? Mentioning something which was already written in the newspapers in 1940?
Wauw, brilliant.
Noam Chomsky will go down in history as one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
As a human it makes me proud that Chomsky is a fellow human being.
Wow, he just sits there, legs crossed, and calmly tells it like it is. amazing, Bravo!
Listening to a wise man's speach from Greece
The most frightening thing of all is that even Chomsky, with all of his truly exceptional knowledge and eloquence, his one hundred books and countless public talks, is powerless. He will go down in history as one who analyzed and predicted with crystal clarity but could change nothing.
Very sad indeed. Who rules the world is the most aggressive not the brightest or most righteous.
Professor Noam Chomsky has the power to cause change. I am of the opinion Professor Chomsky is not willing to support the price.
@@medicuswashington9870 could be but also people are not standing behind the true ones. Crowds when determined win. Say he runs for president, and at the same time a revolution erupts calling for social justice, end of war, free education and healthcare, consumer protection and universal basic income. Revolution wins and elect Chomsky for president. Do you think anyone could stop it? The problem though is when people are not ready for change. There are many who like the status quo and will protect corrupt politicians with everything they have. A poor White living off the grid and on welfare still supports Trump. There is no substitute for education and common sense. Some people just don’t have.
Nope. He wanted to create concentration camps for the unvaccinated, with no food delivery. He's just like WW2 monsters.
He spectacularly failed to predict or even face the brutal reality of the Khmer Rouge, and continued to downplay their crimes even as the evidence mounted. He was far from perfect, far from infallible.
This setting looks like Noam Chomsky is a fashion designer.
He is wearing black velco strapped shoes! How chic!
I actually like it, ''la mise en scène'', the red chair, the low angle ... All with his nonchalace, the way he sits, documents in hands it just gives a fatherly tutoring vibe
Fascinating, wide-ranging lecture. Very informative. Thanks for posting
Noam is more important to our survival than Noah, and he's real, so amazing.
Sadly not, but rightfully should have been. Crooks rule at the end. Politics doesn’t need righteous moralist leaders. It has always been that way and I am afraid it will continue to be that way. Meaningful change happens when people reorganize in smaller groups and come up with solutions that don’t need government funding, approval or blessing. It could be done, but why people like Chomsky were too consumed in the intellectual work that they forgot to craft community solutions?
That is the most chilling implication in the whole matter. We have lost a group of free thinking people in this nation. They are still lost in the year 2001. It seems, even during current events, they try to find answers to questions in an event that happened almost 12 years ago like some sort of mental time loop.
i love the first line of the transcript: "legacy gentlemen... long chopsticks"
Thanks for the valuable upload
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Namasté Chomsky !
Good on you! He's an intelligent guy and, even though he can sometimes be on the dry side and hard to stay focused on sometimes, he's well worth listening to.
The Q&A with Chomsky is often the highlight of such talks.
Your comment is a work of art. I will copy it and remember it always.
Noam chomsky lecture in HD? YES BABY!
Now all i need is a one-on-one debate between Chomsky and Zizek and i can be happy :D
dude had me at "intelligence is a lethal mutation" I've got to finish this video sometime soon
He already has even though here in America for obvious reasons mainstream mediaites won't book him. I studied him in college during the Sixties. Since then, his reputation as one of the most brilliant minds to ever have walked this planet has spread globally.
That ending had a profound impact... Glad I listened.
I loved the way that every commentary is a wall text with your "I dunno" in the middle.
That may be, but his message is more important now than ever before.
A great summary of his on-going critique of the US in foreign policies and the dominance of the corporations in US and the world.
As humans we have individuals like Noam time n time again bringing awareness to people with power. Hopefully great leaders like Dalai Lama will have a greater impact on humanity. Teaching humans at Tashi Namgyal Academy school jointly. Hope is there to dream. Might is right, ganging up and compelling individuals will be proved wrong by the leader Dalai Lama. His wisdom has already proven great in Sikkim my prayers to humans. Love and peace to all
Sorry, The Dalai asked a young boy if he would suck his tongue. He's a sham.
and his brother too. Took a poop in the middle of a magnificent Persian carpet because his poop is holy.
Interesting, would like to see the linguistics part also.
Also any QnA.
a great summary of his on going critique of us foreign policy and the dominance of the corporations in us and the world
Amen to that(not in a religious way) I find myself doing the same thing except sometimes he keeps me up because his lectures are too interesting!!
Thank you so much for the upload. Just curious, is there a Q&A?
Thank you for uploading it!
antony,Taiwan
This just happened so close to me and I didn't know?! DAMN IT!
Thanks for the upload though.
Great Noam Chomski!
Power with it!
Keep on inspiring us!
Me too, I confess that I played this whole thing but my mind was somewhere else. Strangely, I am sleepy now.
Good to see someone pointing that out. Regarding the monetary system and RBE as proposed by TVP. TZM do well at highlighting the shortfalls of the monetary system aswell. If it weren't for Addendum and Moving Forward many of us would be oblivious to these shortfalls.
Does anyone know where the Sagan debate he is referring to can be found?
Thank you very much, Mr Chomsky. It is a sort of consolation if terrible truths are stated by such sane, friendly minds as yours.
how do you know that ?
Nicely said. While I don't take everything Chomsky says at face value and without reflection, I appreciate his ability for critical thinking and he has, without a doubt, offered value to our (generalization coming..) dumbed down population.
gosh man that's a power statement Mr. Powell stated, one that military in all countries should be aware of.
Very well said. I'm older (54) and I agree completely.
There will never be another Noam Chomsky ~a humble master.
The temporal part is finite, but I think you inadvertently got it right the first time.
I've only heard a dozen lectures of his but I'm convinced he is a near genius. We need many more intellectuals of his caliber
Interestingly Chomsky has described his upbringing as working class intellectual - that is most of his family were not formally educated but they educated themselves. Also he has described MIT has being better at foestering independent thought than other universities. So Chomsky seems to have benefited from particular cultural circumstances that have encouraged his own critical thought.
Very well constructed to understand, even from a "conformers" understanding. Good work
My opinion is that people should be held accountable for being manipulated. The trait of allowing themselves to be manipulated is a sign of a week spiritual soul. Which means these people have been week for thousands of years. The motif of: if you don't control your mind someone else will control it for you applies. If people hurt other people because they've allowed themselves to be manipulated, the hurt people deserve to be compensated and the perpetrators of the crime punished.
Love the graphic at the beginning.
Thanks for posting .
I did forget to comment on one thing you threw out there. I didn't say I'm older than you and therefore wiser. I said, effectively, that there is only one way to gain wisdom (and it isn't a given that a person will) and that's through time spent learning. There is no way around it. For the record, I've bothered to collect some because, like you, I have a good head on my shoulders and like to use it.
I will have to look into Richard Wolff.
And as for Ron Paul, he may be a politician but he has a very thorough understanding of world history and economics. He is not like other politicians in this right, He will and has run circles around any other politician when it comes to intellectualism.
he sounds SO excited!
What do you mean?
As he gets older, it's sad to think that someday in the relatively near future we will turn on the news to hear that he had died, never knowing if people took his words to heart and put the planet on a better path.
I wish he could recap on these topics again today. With the realities as they stand today alot of what he said here has become somewhat moot...
00:34:00 over-all theme of this talk?
I am afraid of a world without Noam Chomsky. Although there are many great intellectual, Chris Hedges and others, nobody else does what Noam does--carefully and dispassionately laying out the reality of international and domestic politics and elite agendas.
"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online."
you knew it back then, it emerged full time this year
Remember, pride always comes before a fall!
Don't forget the importance of actually, you know, organizing politically and economically and actually informing yourself and others about the strategical situation... That seems quite a bit more significant than what products you decide to consume within your life time. I would even be tempted to say that what you suggest is to an extent exactly what the powers that be expect you to do...
How much approved education one gets isn’t as important as whether it’s actually correct. Thank you for more correct information.
He might or might not have gems to pass on to the people. But I can only listen to him for about 10 minutes before his voice bores me to death. It's the verbal equivalent of counting sheep.
Yes sir. I agree with your wisdom.
The hammer quote is originally from Abraham Maslow.
What a commanding genetic beginnings! Both his parents were Hebrew scholars!! Can you imagine that? What a dynamic cultural upbringing just by osmosis only, long before graduate and post graduate studies. And imagine his peers. They'd have to be of similar cultural level to even think of maintaining any friendship!
i heard rutgers was kind of a big wild place so i was kind of curious about what kind of people you could meet there. im curious is it really frat city like they say or do you find kids who want to have these conversations occasionally? i was always dissappointed in drews lack of a party scene. we had fuckin hippies who couldnt even find acid, it was depressing.
laying out where society had to go, as if the extremely complex decisions facing our society could ever be made by one man. But the second, and more important reason, is that in his view its more important to make poeple aware of what we dont need than potentially alienate them with his views. Alot of people, actually probably the majority in this country agree with some percentage of what he says, and he wants to keep the focus on people uniting and getting rid of what doesnt work so that
The towers can be seen falling down at freefall speed from several angles from several videos... also how do you explain building 7? Also the hijackers were more tied to Al Queda then Saudi Arabia
Looking from outside in at the act of war - it really goes back to understanding the inner human brain and the drivers of thought here within all of us; in order to lever this, as it has been going on far too long and is wide spread in leader animal misunderstood settings of behaviors. The difference is made by taking a stand which takes a heart alike Martin Luther King, as well as individuals in the world understanding the dynamics of the brain which in-act such childish leadership wants.
Knowledge is not out there for everyone to access, in fact there is such a mass of information that it takes a huge amount of time to process it properly and usually most people who have to work, care for their families, their homes, etc simply have no time for that. That's what you call "idiots". Time actually is only one factor of lack of political culture. I'm sure it could be analyzed as one big system of exclusion.
That's why Chomsky is so popular, because he works for the people.
Tell me while holding a straight face that the past is more important than the future.
good stuff. we are all lucky that chomsky does a lot of the research for us.
who is the historian he refers to at around 48:50? - It sounds like Martin Gilland to me, but I can't find any books or youtube clips under this name.
I want to give this guy a big ol hug.
RIP Noam
i understand that you might subconsciously absorb a few of his observations, perhaps even understanding them in the process. though do you think you'll be able to absorb his capabilities, the essence of his brilliance?
I live in Canada, where our culture is very much the same. Therefore I have every right and responsibility to critique it. And I agree, however I sense your reactions appear to be emotive and defensive. My intentions aren't to demean Americans/Canadians, but rather I am expressing my opinions on the state of Western culture (America being the center of it). It may be cynical, but not meant to insult people as a whole.
Great man!
We are lucky to have him!
Well, is there?
Listening as an African and more than 32 min into it, I haven't heard us talked about in this 'new world order' talk. Do we exist at all in this historian's view of the world?
I don't think it is our job to judge others, because it is a way of shifting responsibility and it doesn't change anything. Instead of looking for others to blame we should be looking at ourselves and how we by action/inaction contribute to the problem/solution.
Whether you agree or disagree with Chomky's standpoint, you've got to admit he has done homework every single day of his life.
(another one for my favorite-quotes-collection:)
55:42 " In the past 30 years the 'masters of mankind' --as [Adam] Smith [1723-1790] called them-- have abandoned any sentimental concern for the wellfare of their own societies, concentrating instead on short-term gain and huge bonusses... "
Really. I my self am an American yet I am open to other cultures, knowledgeable in the history of the world, and am willing to admit my country's misdoings. I oppose my government. I have no hate toward other countries like Iran. Explain that please.
Your solution is only partly right, because the other part is ignored by everyone; that part is government taxes which the government finds ways to funnel to special and mostly wealthy companies and people. Anyone who ignores that either doesn't know how politics works or think nothing can be done about what the government is doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA is the prime example!
Oh, very well said!
So true. As we all know, ad hominem assertions are the clearest sign of intelligent discourse. Therefore I must me dumbed down.
I just watched this video & read the comments (above) it makes me sad to see that instead of articulating a common goal or a common language that will help us articulate oppression of government (which we cannot fight without a common language and goal) we are instead fighting each other online. Are we content within our global situation? Is the ruling class which governs a group that represents us? so why aren't we fighting this cause instead of each other?
It's not for lack of trying. Provoking wars.
Most of Chomskys' comments here are taken from his Hegemony or Survival book, and others. So, if you enjoy this get that book. A good read. Apart from that make your own mind up on his writings.
@william desalle socialism is a form of economy not government. Europe is mostly socialist, are they like what you expressed?
May I have text (subtitle)?
I am not native English
sorry to bother!
Antony, Taiwan
its pretty hard, because the world isnt "one" its comprised of billions of individuals that have billions of families, millions of communities, millions of corporations etc.
Which crimes against humanity are you referring too? BTW I am always up for an intellectual discussion.
I'm not denying that there are smart Americans--rather I am criticizing American culture, where intellectualism is seen as a negative. Anyone who expresses themselves in an articulate manner, which challenges the social norms and conventional discourse is shunned. Look around you, man. People like Chomsky is merely proof that even an intellectual sewer that is American culture, beautiful flowers can still bloom.
turn up the volume
He is, and History will show you exactly that he is a big one at that.
that is a fantastic idea
Mr Chomsky U are the MAN!!!
when I listen to this clip it is 39663 persons who has watched this, will we totether do something about the crusual and rutten economic order??
You have to actually look at the information in front of you. If you read it carefully you see that, while there is some debate about whether the actual letter is in existence, there is no doubt that the information concerning the purpose of the first two wars and mention of the second, took place well before even the Great War. This part is indisputable. It is hard to get accurate information about almost anything of controversy, I find& there is a lot of disappearance of documents-cont...
Absolutly correct.