Noam Chomsky: Capitalism, Media Control, & the Illusion of Democracy
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2024
- Controversial linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky challenges our core beliefs about freedom, democracy, and capitalism. He argues that corporations and media manipulate us, wars are waged for profit, and the economic system is rigged for the wealthy. His 'Manufacturing Consent' theory reveals how news shapes public opinion to uphold the status quo. Are we truly free if our choices are controlled by those with power? This episode explores Chomsky's radical critique of modern society.
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America doesn't have a govt. It has Rich investors who pay our leaders to do as they say.
Spot on. Political puppets manipulated by Oligarchs. If we know this , why do we bother to vote ? Even worse why are we paying these politicians ?
It has owners, who *legally* bought it, in 1913 and they also own the 340 million slaves, residing on their business property, which is titled _United States._
@billyandrew I read up on that and it's true ‼️
Everyone I know who is willing to work for a living lives a nice life in America. Others like to sit around and whine about "the man" and do drugs and stuff. These are the ones who are into Chomsky's victimhood narrative.
America absolutely doesn't have A government, it has the federal government, 50 state governments, and thousands of county and municipal governments. Strangely it is conservatives who want to see more power ceded to state and local governments, and leftists who have a hard time wrapping their heads around "federalism".
I’ll say it again, America is not a democracy, it’s a business.
The business is U.S., INC(CORP) not America.
We have never been a democracy.
@@UA-camforcedmetochangemynameGnome Chomomsky.
100%
Not an honourable one
Freedom of speech " You can say whatever you want, as long as I like it."
Chomsky is a cheap rabble rouser.
You can say whatever you want more less but it doesn't matter
Exactly.
What is it giving you? Speak as much as you want, but what you get in return?
Personal sovereignty, which is all that really matters. @@Basilica19
The point of all democracies is to give the illusion of fairness.
A true democracy could be fair if lobbies and money wasn't considered to have power
So communism has fairness?
Sure. Same as comunism. Just in comunism the reality is much worse.😢
Oh really?
....and your poly-sci degree was earned where?
@@birchsongsltd.6831 goober is woke trash and supports socialism.
We live in a corporate political religious FASCISM!
Exactly!!!
Big tech and cable news media is the worst and I swear they work side-by-side with the political, coastal elite and mostly the Democrats. In America you are nothing unless you are a Democrat and I’m libertarian. I think a lot of Democrats these days are downright Godless.
The Beast a Gentile Empire without rule of God a form of lawlessness.
Frank Zappa warned us about it in the 80's....
More like coorperatist,leftist, Marxist socialist fascism...
Sadly most people either don't know or don't care.!
Most don’t care which is what blows my mind. How do you not care that we are being screwed???
@@christinaboothe3171 The vast majority of people don't care about that "we" part unless it applies to their family and friends. Politics isn't hugely important to the most of people in the USA anyway. Turnout for anything but Presidential elections is a joke, and over 1/3 of eligible voters can't even be bothered with that, as is their right.
As bad as it is, people are just too comfortable to care.
As a European relocated, I think that the Americans are not stupid. They are just not informed. In other words, they don’t know better. How many people have been traveled to other countries? Many don’t know the next town. How can you expect people without knowledge to interpret life? How can they want something that they never thought it existed? The majority of the Americans just don’t know better.
@@Kuzey457I wouldn’t say comfortable. They are limited because they don’t know better.
George carlin did a show on this subject
They call it an American Dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it - George Carlin
Yep! That’s why they got rid of him!
@@grandwonder5858 yep
And George Carlin became a multi-millionaire because he lived in a Democracy, where he was free to say what he wanted, and make money from it, via Capitalism!
Just like Chomsky! 😀😀😀
.....and many others as well!
If you’re over fifty you’ve known this for 25 years. But thanks for publishing this.
My awakening began in 1991 as I watched Bush give a speech to Congress about a "New World Order" and "a Thousand Points of Light." That was crazy talk for 1991 ! Then in walks Billy Boob, the "centrist thinking" New Democrat in 93. When he signed NAFTA into law and eliminated tariffs for Mexico and Canada thus causing the US to lose Revenue which hurt Americans. Then he sent all of our manufacturing jobs to Mexico and other foreign entities which hurt America. I began to see a pattern against America.
HOOWA 64 and right there with ya
I'm still in my late twenties but 99.8% of all people past the age of 50 that I've known don't even know who Chomsky is (or just outright call me a "Commie" for even suggesting him) and are glued to the MSM every day of their lives.
A beautifully narrated presentation and synopsis of Chomsky's oeuvre. Thank you :)
This war criminal who justifies the brutal brutal killings of 20% of the entire Cambodian people by Communist Khmer rouge. Then to prove it wasnt a mistake in youth just 2 years ago supported the ending of the lives of those who refused Mandates coerced Shots by calling for a 1930s German style ghetto isolation idea in banning them from getting food from market and smirking devilishly "let them figure out how to get food". In any decent he would be charged for pushing and collaborating in Nuremberg code abuse of billions globally.
Chomsky has lived a nice comfortable life in America, while selling hate and victimhood to Americans.
Chomsky is a criminal for riding that infamous airplane and when being questioned about it saying it’s no one’s business . He literally deserves to be rotting in prison.
No. It's a complete waste of time. Chumpsky is an idiot.
Chomsky really knows what he is talking about and it would behoove everyone to listen to what he has to say because he won't be around much longer. He has a gem of knowledge.
LOL
Right. Of course.
YOU are an eedeee-ott. Gnome Chumpsky is an idiot. NO ONE should listen to either of you two fools.
Listen to what he has to say and questioni it. Chomsky is a treasure, except he did a 180 surrounding covid and vaccines. Which, proves we can't blindly trust anyone. Listen to what he has to say and questioni it. Chomsky is a treasure, except he did a far right wing 180° turn surrounding covid and vaccines. Which, proves we can't blindly trust anyone.
No. He is disgusting. Telling unvaccinated people should be banned from society. He makes me puke.
“A democracy that serves everyone” must serve the ecosystems, insects and animals as well. This is particularly hard for our species to comprehend. We are inflicting insane levels of damage which all know is creating cascading effects. I don’t hear many optimistic ecologists…
We live in a republic
Biocracy💚
@@djnelsonchild7467 That’s understood.
Well said! Manufacturing Consent should be taught in every high school in the world.
Except every high school in the world is part of the system. They aren’t going to teach you what they’re doing to you as much as sell it to you in the movies and on television.
Underestimated comment…
That would be labeled as CRT or DEI or communism or woke or some other new buzzword...
@@necrux should we worry about how they label things, or rather get on with the job for the sake of a fairer society?
Elementary school, rather.
The corporate matrix.
Truman's world
Not only in America it's happening all over the world
I've always felt like that but couldn't formulate it so clearly. 100% Agree. This is probably one of the most underrated video on UA-cam.
Nice essay of Chomsky's work on the media and its effects on democracy. Thanks
Democracy leads to rule by ignorance/emotion sadly. Chomsky's ideas fall apart when the assumptions are examined. It's no wonder he set back nlp 40 years with his ideas.
When you write "Chomsky's ideas" what are you saying? When Chomsky talks "politically theory", he nearly always cites his sources. In this area, he's not so much creative and inventive - as in other areas - as he's well read. Best of all, because Chomsky cites his sources, we can always check what he says.
When Chomsky has referred to "democracy" he not infrequently cited Aristotle work "Politics", the granddaddy in the western world on democracy (versus, say, Plato's totalitarian regime of "philosopher kings"). And, the US founding fathers were educated in the Greek classics, nearly the only thing read in formal schools at the time. Thus, they were also acquainted with Aristotle.
The US founding fathers, as did Aristotle, realised you can't have a democracy with a lot of poverty and few wealthy. The solution, according to Aristotle is, what we call today, the "welfare state". That was Aristotle. The US founding fathers took the opposite approach, as US first Supreme Court Justice John Jay said, "the people who own the country ought to govern it", or James Madison who said, the primary goal of government is "to protect the opulent minority against the majority".
In real way, what we call democracy isn't so much a thing but a process, an ongoing struggle from the bottom up, from the people ever since the constitutional convention. Recall, immediately after the constitutional convention only land-owning rich white males were allowed to votes in most states, although in other states you could pay to vote without owning land.
@@user-em4kb3gm8g absolute rubbish . Chomsky is a fool who lives in bubble of ideological nonsense . . People like yourself think its so trendy to like Noam . Please write for me a descriptive paragraph of what Noam has ever achieved that has mattered to a functional society . Not what others have done , what he has done . Not others writings . His very own thoughts and ideas that have actually benefitted again a functional non idealistic society . I wait to see if you can find anything . You will respond with an excuse . Reality is the mans a 21st century charlatan .
Chomsky is the equivalent of a mystical healer . Plenty of hubris , no actual science or data . Why do Americans laud this absolute nobody . They should read Thomas Sowell if they really want to understand the USA modern society .
Chomsky = Clown.
Dr. Robert Reich shares many of Chomsky's insights. Both strive to inform & enlighten us about how the plutocratic oligarchs control the economy, society & govt. Also, both encourage us to take action to fight back against the few that have hijacked our Republic.
You’ll never have peace,freedom or equality in a monetary system!
The Capitalist system is based on greed and power. Therefore the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. There is no place for 'Humanity' in this system.
So move to a country that doesn't have a monetary system so you can have peace, freedom and equality.
@@laryjohnson5736yes, that's the fair and reasonable solution. 🙄
@@KnockingONwood1111It is if goober wants to be happy. 15 million or so ILLEGAL ALIENS have come to the US for this reason.
Demonizing Money equates to no one gave you any. You are angry and envious about the stuff.
Utilizing Money equates to you have learned how to earn and keep the stuff.
It's a marker of Energy, Persistence and/or Skills. You're pointing out your Deficiencies.
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....” NC
I will always listen to what Noam Chomsky has to say. He's a master of the reality check. ❤ Live long, sir.
He's the one who set natural language processing back 40 years. I'd definitely consider his assumptions careful before believing him. He assumes Democracy is a desired goal, but that itself results in the same systems due to uninformed weighing the same as informed voting.
He said those not wanting to take an experimental toxic injection without informed consent should be separated from the rest of society. Chomsky Manufactures Contempt. Once a strong voice against the establishment, now a tool for the establishment.
horrific psychopathic man, its not capitalism its communism, that's the evil, that's the agenda and he was part of it, noam the evil
Oh god thank you . Not even American and it bewilders me that Americans see this fool as some sort of messiah . Thomas Sowell who I absolutely admire and who has written so much amazing literature . His factual opinion on Noam is as close to the mark as you can get . Personally Noam is a deluded old man who should ride off into the sunset and leave the real world issues to proper critical thinkers .
Hes the master of nothing but rubbish . His ramblings are that of someone who has no real concept of society today . He has never done anything , but ridicule the freedoms that he hides behind .
Yes , I have known about Chomsky for 45 years!!!
Every political system works, capitalism, democracy, communism, socialism etc, it stops working when there is too much corruption, incompetence and misinformation, where people ignore, don't care or are swayed from reality, when it becomes too tyrannical or too permitting, a balance is required in all situations, it is when the balance shifts, everything collapses, slowly or catastrophically.
A minor note…what you listed aren’t political systems-they’re economic systems (ways goods and services are distributed). Political systems (systems of governance) are autocracy, theocracy, monarchy, democracy. Your overall point is correct on that when there’s corruption in the political system, the economic systems then get rigged toward the few.
@@chococat746 And the corrupt, propaganda, media misinformation.
Self interest is hard wired in every person, so every system will have some level of corruption. People will always favor their family, friends, and others who are like them, no matter what system is in place. Capitalism benefits from self interest, since you can always buy what you want and others will benefit from making and selling it to you. In the USSR everyone was a criminal since the black market was the main consumer economy. And there was a system of personal favors called blat.
You're right. Communism does work. It's inherently ripe for corruption by the very nature of its system and results in the death of millions.
Also, it's an economic system. One that is great for them and not great for you.
Balance is what supports life. Wipe out balance and every thing collapses.
Chomsky also constantly encourages everyone to fight for rights, that the people are strong and capable of instituting change through many forms seen in history. If horrific dictatorships where able to force change why can't we in a country that can't use that level of direct force but instead relies on manipulation of the publics beliefs.
Weaponized helpless victimhood is the new age mantra of the selfrighteous
Ummm.. Chompsky advocated forceably vaccinating people against their will. He's a hypocritical POS.
And at the first sign of authoritarianism he went along with it, very disappointing
@4363HASHMI :: "selfrighteous" ?
"Weaponized helpless victimhood" ?
Do you have any independent knowledge of history ?
Did the Suffragettes retreat into self-righteousness ?
Did they weaponize helpless victimhood ?
or
did they gain excess to higher education to become ::
judges, doctors, scientists, lawyers, astronauts, CEOs & CFOs, bank presidents, military leaders, political advisors, establish political campaigns for high offices and even become sociopathic foreign-policy-makers ?
The Suffragettes are just one historical example. Any Progressive movement can also be the result of active, organized involvement (as in the above) ::
the C.R.M.
the Labor Movement
the Law Enforcement Agencies ...
Look ! Look at the above list. Take your time❕️No matter how much time you spend, you will not find the words ::
_Weaponized, helpless, victimhood, the selfrighteous._
Gotta learn history before making unfounded, unsupported, unhistorical and unhinged comments.
@@4363HASHMI::
"selfrighteous" ?
"Weaponized helpless victimhood" ?
Did the Suffragettes retreat into self-righteousness, weaponized, helpless victimhood❔️
or
did they gain excess to higher education to become doctors, lawyers, politicians, astronauts, judges, CEOs, CFOs, presidents of financial institutions, truck drivers, police officers, firefighters, medics, bus drivers, specialists and even sociopathic foreign-policy-makers.
Any progressive movement has had the same outcome. You can use the same list to apply to the ::
C.R.M.
Labor Organizating
Political Expansion ...
Look ! Look at the above list and see if you can find selfrighteous, weaponized helpless victimhood. Take your time. No matter how much time you spend, you won't find self-righteous helpless weaponization of victimhood.
That’s why I don’t vote anymore, it doesn’t matter which candidates, they all work for their big donors, not small potato like us poor citizens.
you should still vote, you need to be able to distinguish between different things. Hitler was voted into power, and we do not hold harmless those that refused to vote, for by that simple action they could have prevented great tragedy and they failed to do so. I understand why you would like to be removed from a system that forces you to choose between two evils, but that is the work. To choose. And perhaps to change. Or maybe simply to buy time to allow for change.
@@raymartin1687I vote for the physical exercise
It doesn't have much meaning/ consequence but you can actually vote for none (or all if you prefer; it's actually safer). It's supposed to be a protest vote, that you actually don't believe in any of the options.
There is no difference in parties. They all drink together and have a laff at the stupid sapine Brittunculi.
Thank you. Noam is the Man.
He wanted the unvaxxed to starve to death...that’s not good, at least in my humble opinion!
@@JeepCherokeefulexactly.
only few have the courage to understand. the rest must give their vote to democracy. then miserably humans are left empty handed for humanity.
The greatest illusion Is people thinking they are free, even when being confronted with every day life showing and telling them they are not free
Best short summary of Chomsky I've heard. Hoping this video gets shared with everyone with a ear to hear.
Thank you for the compliment :)
@@philosopheasy As a 58 y/o male spoon fed the mainstream narrative for years Mr. Chomsky and professor Richard Wolff have enlighten me. Thank you for a wonderful summary, in my opinion sums up everything precisely. I will be reviewing more of your interesting videos.
So true Thank you !
French thinker-surgeon Henri Laborit maintained that: ‘Modern man finds himself alone, isolated, lost in a monstrous socio-economic machine whose mechanisms he doesn’t understand. But what is the most incomprehensible is how, locked in the rigid, impersonal yoke of his daily grind, of his measured automatisms, having no time to think or even to rave in delirium, he can still believe that he is free. His concept of liberty is itself the consequence of a cultural automatism inculcated in him early by society to avoid his suicide, or revolt, to make him think that the choice was his.’
That’s the real Hell for intelligent adults, not the one spread about by the fear-mongering Christian churches.
So happy I was born in Polish Republic of People, schools & universities were free and still are free, wouldn’t like to be a one year younger. Migrated from Poland , working class were building villas & going to church being dressed like elite from a palace. Never forget my Mum and grandma putting their cashmere coats and hats before heading to church. Luxury food beyond imagination, Persian rugs, crystal chandeliers etc etc
Excellent presentation 🎯
I also want to Thank you for your narration and synopsis of Noam Chomsky’s book- ‘Manufactured Consent’-(read it awhile ago and cannot exactly remember the title?) Anyways, Well done! I appreciate the thoughtful review.
thank you for posting and reminding
Had him in class at MIT circa 1958.
To understand the US Supreme Court's decision one needs to read the US Constitution first.
The US is not a Democratic Republic, but a Republic with some elements of Democracy.
Originalism means that the only rights and policies that are protected are ones that are explicitly laid out in the constitution, conforming with the “original”intentions of the founders.
Although slavery has been abolished, the property that is central to the Constitution-private property, the right to exploit the majority for the benefit of the tiny minority remains.
It is preposterous for the majority to decide who will be on the ballot and who will not.
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” ― Rosa Luxemburg
Recall Citizens United.
Update US Constitution to shift power balance between Majority and Minority.
i say replace this quote with anything Chomsky says post covid
USA isn’t even a republic - it is a capitalistic corporate oligarchy, aka a corporatocracy, aka a kleptocracy, aka a plutocracy.
You’re 100% on point. I stay emphasizing this same stuff to my peers here in the U.S..
They’re all delusional denialists
Very well put together. Noam is a beacon of hope, he spells it out. I dread the day that is coming in the future, when he will no longer be, that will be a horrible day.
He has a beautiful and honest mind and in most things I'm in agreement with his ideas, fascinating how his mind is still so sharp at over 90.
He is a true, good human being.
Noam has explained it so well! How true it all is! 😊
"`Why' is the only real source of power, without it you are powerless.”
- The Merovingian
The boys in the hood are always hard, come talkin that trash and we'll pull your card. - Ice Cube.
Isn’t the media merely a trafficker of (false) information ?
"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power and those without..."
-The Merovingian
Thank you for that easy and simply understandable explanation of his deep works!
Most explainer vids on Chomsky are more difficult that his works themselves.
Thank you :)
Thank you for this, the truth is right here about many things.
Should use a picture that’s accurate
Who is it, IDF stooge?
why?✌🏼
It's accurate - it's just not up to date.
It's not the corporatism that's the issue, it's the Shareholders.
Shareholder rights and Corporate Governance...
One of the key rights of shareholders is the ability to vote on important corporate matters. This includes electing the board of directors, who are responsible for overseeing the company's management and making significant business decisions
Shareholders can influence the company's trajectory and hold the board accountable for their actions, ensuring that the company is managed in the best interests of its owners.
corporatism is the issue.
Corporations aren’t people yet have more rights than actual people that’s a problem.
The biggest shareholders are always the top people on the board and corporations board members are on each other’s corporate boards. They’re all friends, and they’re all in it together.
This is how someone like Charles Prince, who used to be the CEO of Citibank manages to get $68 million and a job as a financial advisor after nearly bankrupting the company .
Chomsky is 100% right. This man and his words will go down in history. Thanks for your great summary. It's brilliantly articulated!
"Why your vote doesn't matter" isn't a question.
What!? Noone said it was. If I get your point, it doesn't speak well of your mental competence. I hope that I don't.
@@akimmel6941 Don’t you see the question mark??
.?
Your vote doesn't matter because it is an appeasement to make you feel good, while the politicians and president are selected not voted into office by the people. Your wasting your time and energy going to vote. Stay home.
@@akimmel6941see the thumbnail Einstein.
Chilling truth of human existence in no matter what system we live.
Chomsky - such a human, expert... taking side of simple (in a good way) people...
...we will miss him
Kindly speak for yourself. I won't miss this disgusting man, who said that unvaccinated people should be banned from society.
You are right. We live in darkness as was described by Socrates. The question is how can we escape this.
How many times do people have to be told we are a republic, not a democracy . I pledge Alegents to the republic for which it stands !!
We have become an Nation of lazy sheep. I miss the days of Non Conformity, when we thought, spoke & stood for our beliefs.
Yeah, geez not another dumbass Republican telling us how this is a republic …..duh it’s a republic. It’s a DEMOCRATIC Republic you moron.
One of my smart friends said I should check into chompy because he thought I would like him. I saw a few vids and didn't really agree with those. Now I see what he was talking about! I quit voting 8 years ago. People want me to vote, but what they mean is they want me to choose a side of the two party dictatorship. Not doing it.
Great video, thanks! Chomsky is an extraordinary philosopher and his insights make me speechless. I have nothing to add, I just wish more people could understand this.
Dear Mr Chomsky, I have written a persuasive essay that I would be honored to have you read. Please feel free to incorporate any or all of it's talking points into your presentations. Here it is:
The Twin Parallel Rails Organizing Society
There are two continuums that run side by side like train tracks that don’t cross over each other but together carry a society either to a destination of positive collaborative fulfillment or to the opposite destination of negative self-centered separation.
Rail 1. Governance.
Democratic Socialism vs Corporate Socialism: a primer.
We are all socialists. Humans require society for survival. Socialism is all governance. Governance is the type of gov. tax appropriations, gov. regulations and the direction of gov. agencies. It is a continuum. It goes from Democratic Socialism which is spending tax monies and having policies for the benefit of all those who actually contribute to the tax pool and represent the vast majority of the population, to Corporate Socialism which is spending tax monies and making gov. policies for the benefit of the corporate interests of the 2%, many of which pay little or no taxes and brag about gaming a system they have bought and influence with their ever exponentially increasing wealth. This is a nasty feedback loop that leads us to a state of economic serfdom and ultimately to gated communities for these same people who caused this situation, with their insatiable greed machine of lobbyists and swinging door appointments leading from corporate boardrooms to government agencies and administrations and back again.
Rail 2. Economics
The second parallel rail/continuum of societal organization is the agreed upon Mode of Economic Exchange which ranges from Capitalism that encourages the individual profit motive, to Communism which says we must share the profits of our labors.
Communism has never existed except as an idea. It has historically been implemented as a rallying cry to disaffected people in rebellions against minority rule, but once the new batch of rulers took power they quickly and logically reverted to their own individual capital interests, which in a society governed by Democratic Socialism would be just fine, but instead though, they quickly diverted themselves to the greed interests of the top 2% by adopting extreme Corporate Socialism to become Oligarchs and Fascists. Just look at the brutal suppression where these rebellions took place in the societies of Russia, China and North Korea for example.
Actual Communism has only existed in some local communes of people dedicated to the concept, but they only last a short time because they are inefficient at meeting the individual needs and aspirations of its members beyond those who are totally committed to that group.
The idea of Communism persists because it is used as a Canard by the top 2% in most all societies. A 'Canard' is a spurious idea presented by someone to provide an excuse for motives that would otherwise be revealed as being for their own selfish ends. It’s a diversionary tactic and smoke screen rolled into one.
Communism is held up and used as a 'Canard' by both those who promote the interests of the Corporate Socialists in countries with democracies like the United States, where it is presented as being a bogeyman that will lead them all down the path of 'socialism' and 'communism', to its use by the so called ‘Communist States’, where it is held up by their 'Communist Party' leaders who want to hide their actual oligarchical, fascist intentions from their masses by presenting it as a Utopian ideal to which they must all sacrifice their individual desires.
Either way, the end result is the same, with the canard idea of Communism being used to cajole and control the majority into serving the interests of the few.
Capitalism’s ability to motivate people into a commerce of ideas, services and products with profits that address individual needs is the only mode of monetary exchange that makes efficient sense. Only you know what you desire and aspire too. Even ‘Communist’ countries use Capitalism but only to the extent the ruling party members permit, in so far as it promotes the wealthfare of the top 2%. There the Corporate Socialist extremists dominate those societies with an iron fist; as seen in China, Russia and North Korea.
Rail #1 ‘Governance’ final thoughts
Democratic Socialism as governance plus Capitalism for economic exchange equals a society that builds itself up for the betterment of all its members by spending their tax dollars and government policy on national health care, a clean environment, education, timely infrastructure spending, retirement insurance, etc. for all its citizens. The Scandinavian countries and most of Europe and the Commonwealth countries come to mind.
Whereas Corporate Socialism as governance, plus Capitalism for economic exchange = a society like ours - The United States; that has government policies, tax money appropriations, regulations, laws, and judicial and agency appointments increasingly designed to shunt money to the top 2% of its citizens; leaving us with no National Health Care, a shrinking middle class, a growing class of unhealthy uninsured working poor, and also with a disproportionate tax burden favoring the wealthy, a deteriorating environment for the short term gain of investors in some industries, and a crumbling infrastructure to avoid any legislation requiring additional taxation of the 2%. Also, it has led us to bogus foreign wars for corporate profit with the resulting deaths of American youths to benefit the shareholders in the Military Industrial Complex, as with Halliburton’s corporate investors and their ilk.
The logical conclusion of Corporate Socialism at its extreme endpoint is to shift rule from Democracy to rule by Oligarchy (rule by a few) and Fascism (combining a central dictator), with them foremost always representing the financial interests of the top 2%. In these so called ‘Communist States’, this is combined with threats of military and police force to the citizenry, so they fear their governments readiness to deploy against them for any serious internal challenges they may pose to their rule, as is found in Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Belarus, Cuba and a number of other countries.
The interests of the Corporate Socialists are routinely promoted by the top 2% under the guise of patriotic duty and endless flag waving. This perversely manipulates the community’s natural tribal instinct to rally together, while both hiding the greedy intentions of the 2% and steering the rest of the population to serve those interests.
This dominance of the short-sighted greed lust of Corporate Socialism in both the Democracies and in the so called 'Communist States' is leading us to a diminishing quality of life, and an inability to make positive adaptive change. This is causing ever increasing societal chaos with uncontrolled desperate migration, a burgeoning global population and environmental degradation.
The Societies of our planet need to work towards establishing truly representative Democratic Socialism in order for us to avert disaster and to coordinate our place on Earth in a manner that will sustain a good life for all our species and ecosystems.
Everyone, we have got to get it together using Democratic Socialism combined with Capitalism.
War, disease and misery are not necessary management tools.
Well said, if the masses get it,!!!?
Since I was just 19 that’s how I kind of understood the world that I live in and made my way through in it
They are in a special club and we aren't in it.
George Carlin
kind of
We are trading truth for convenience, and money is the means.
After waking up for who rules the world, the lies that makes us working hard and blindly hoping for better life, all this seems obvious. But looking to others still lost is this ideology hurts and makes me feel we already lost as working class and as humans.
AMERICAN TV---24 MINUTES FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUT 52 MINUTES FOR ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. SO SAD.
People like what they like. Wishing they were different is foolish. I have highly educated, productive friends who are getting ready to watch 8 hours of college basketball a day for the next 3 weeks. Some will even fly to tournament sites. Any system that needs people to be fundamentally different than they are to work shouldn't even be considered.
The news is nothing but lies and brain washing to begin with and if you watch it you will get sucked in.
The questionable Electoral College plays a large part such as making the majority vote getter irrelevant.
The Electoral College was created because the Founders could not have created the country without it. The states with smaller populations would have refused to join without assurance of full representation, to protect their citizens from being bulldozed by "tyranny of the majority". It persists to this day for the same reason, the smaller states will not ratify an amendment to abolish it.
Prof. Chomsky is one of the greatest thinkers and champions of true Justice, freedom and equality
Thank you Professor Chomsky continues to enlighten us
He was the opposite of that during Covid
Thanks!
Thank you❗️🙏
Thank you you are saying the truth. Don't dhey know no one lives forever? No conscience!!!
That's not a picture of Noam Chomsky.
Who is it, IDF stooge?
You're damn right
I think it’s him when he was younger.
@@louismcglasson7913 Nope. I can't remember this guy's name, but I'm fairly sure he's one of those lightweight middle-of-the-roaders who does unchallenging "think pieces" for like Vanity Fair and the NYT. It's definitely not Chomsky.
This is noam Chomsky from Wish
It isn’t just the USA. It’s most of the world.
It sounds so real in our context in India as well.
The goodness of democracy is not universal... True
Thanks for sharing
Interesting Informed and Informative!!!
Chomsky shouldn't confuse capitalism with crony capitalism, the latter being the one we live under and which creates the inequality we see today
Agreed 👍💯
Capitalism is a Ponzi scheme full stop. It could never work because of illegal monopolies mushrooming up over night across all industry
One inevitably leads to the other.
Capitalism, in fact, is always crony capitalism. Capitalism without a nefarious nexus with governments simply does not exist. Rather, from a Marxist point of view, State and all its organs, are just the instruments of capitalism. Therefore, Chomsky is not confusing capitalism with crony capitalism. Capitalism is destined to be crony capitalism where State can never function independently. It is bound to protect the interests of capitalists.
The end result of capitalism no matter what is crony capitalism. When your system is profit over people that's the inevitable end point.
Thank you
I’m from the UK so I don’t have a say in US politics but my view of Trumps presidential aims had legitimacy given his promise of ‘draining’ the swamp? Yes, his personality traits were questionable and I only ever knew him as a games show host but his understanding of Washington resonated with me.
100% true Noam.
What is the alternative? I often hear the problem, but not solutions. I may not be looking in the right places. Any suggestions where to look?
Same question here
Forming parallel structures that manifest into a parallel society .
I'm a marxist leninist, Chomsky is some sort of anarchist. Study revolutionary theory if you really are interested and you will find people who think like you, and then we have to act together to build movements that can destroy this awful system.
Thank you.
Regardless of how rich & powerful a person might be, human life is maximum 100 years. If I was a rich person, I would not waste my time about how to corrupt the government, I would rather enjoy life, instead of making the life miserable for the others. Fortunately most of the people who are rich & powerful are already old, they do not have sufficient amount of time to exploit the others. That is power without purpose.
Standing alone in a culture of greed,great thoughts.
NOAM AVRUM CHOMSKY
THE WISE OLD MAN OF THE EARTH
- PaulTeich-©️10/31/2023.
He’s not on mainstream television
But in his vision, he knows how to envision
How to save the EARTH, and how to change birth
Back into Hope
Teacher, author, activist and scholar
He who has seen
He who remembers
He is truly the worlds most righteous brother
They threaten him because he cares
He exposes the governments and his research shares
That which the bread and circuses keeps our heads underground
Where manufactured consent is the only sound
They confuse subsidy with security
To steal taxes with fear
From the Cold War till today
False evidence appearing real
When politics becomes the shadow cast by big business over the bewildered herd
First amendment is gone and “We the people” will never be heard
When the father of modern linguistics shares his words
It would behoove us to give honor and share our regards
For only if you know the history of the Earth do you know where we are from
For only if you know the philosophy of the Earth do you know where we are going
And only if you can correlate and assimilate these things, do you really know “Who makes the weather”
And what it is that binds and ties humanity together
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Wow wow wow. And I heard a guy here in South Africa on #safm and he mentioned Noam
we are the fish on the table, not able to decide we will be skewed, fried, steamed, boiled, barbeque... but we have the illusion that we have the power to decide how other fish on the table should be cooked -- or even, we are the dinner not the fish !!!
the face, voice doesn't matter , it's the truth, facts that matter .
Come on people,ONE of the best verification of truth is time.
WE had years and years of rule by both parties,2024 WE are deeper in hell than ever.
WELL-DONE !
You've just written humanity's Epitaph.
He's right to a point !!! But if every registered voter was active in running for office, in the primary process, and general election for 2 midterm elections and 2 general election in a row, the American people could change the system to where every American would benefit and could purge corporations & big money out of our elections and was that are passed !!!
That is why my family and I have never participated in electoral circus. My family have a deep understanding of what we are dealing with, and so do I.
Noam Chomsky is one of the most important people the USA has ever produced.
Definitely!
Communist
*HE IS A TRAITOR.*
@@dunexapa1016 intersting .i am English could you explain your comment to me please ?
Until he sold out during the pandemic
Absolutely right!
Paraphrase, but the line of keeping us in a simple state of wondering what will happen next instead of feeling complex emotions on what we should do hits HARD...
_"Inventing Reality"_ by Micheal Parenti, is supposedly better than _"Manufactured Consent"_
Class warfare is real. Get within range and make a difference.
Someone said, and I quote, "If there is class warfare, the rich have won"
@@chuckdavis1323:: heh heh heh ... Good One❕️
Feel free to put me in my place ... but I have a better one and I quote ::
_The Capitalists are the Real Marxists because they just won't Stop The Class-War❕️_
(Noam Chomsky.)
@@chuckdavis1323:: heh heh heh ... good one❕️
Please feel free to put me in my place ... but I have a better one and I quote ::
_The Capitalists are the Real Marxists because they just won't Stop The Class-War._
(Chomsky)
Very well said
Awesome Provocation of Awareness to Be Critical Thinkers!! The Era of Passivity is OVER!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
New subscriber to this channel!😊 Keep the 'Nuts n Bolts' Flowing!
This guy should me more present in any communication channel❤
Culture of complaint. Start working on improving yourself, your family, your community.
Can't agree more 👍. The third pillar of democracy, the Media is the most biased thing ever. Media today became the spokesperson of the source of fund.
I agree 100% with Chomsky...aren't we living what he said? aren't we witnessing it? it's not radicalism, it's "CALLING IT FOR WHAT IT IS"
Noam said that unvaccinated (c19) people needed to be separated from society, and how they obtained food, was THEIR problem. That is an irrefutable, statement he did make. The interview when he said it, is available in it's entirety, lest anyone thinks I'm stating something 'out of context'. If my bringing this up, hurts your feelings, ha! Too bad. Facts hurt sometimes.
Another big Noam blooper. His answer regarding the events of a certain day in 2001 expose him as a form of controlled opposition, a psyop...
I agree with him. The GOP during Covid helped get a bunch of other people killed. They should’ve been separated from society. They’re not smart enough and they’re too to do what’s decent and good.
Put politicians views over actual healthcare workers. These people are stupid.
100% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great speech 👏
Thank you! If only I could live long enough to see his & Bernie Sanders world view become reality! 💪👍🥂
Search “Bernie Out of the Closet “ from Counterpunch.
Chomsky wants the Vietnamese textile worker to be better paid , but wanted to kick me out of society for refusing a MOSTLY unnecessary “vaccine” , even AFTER I already conferred natural immunity 😂
What a genius
Why was the vaccine unnecessary?
My take on his views is that he believes in the medical model of big pharma but not that of the fiscal,policies prevalent in a modern U.S. globalist nation. I guess we all have our blind spots and whilst there have undoubtedly been some unexplained and I suspect unexpected casualties from the vaccine, the casualties are still numerically tiny - unless that’s also a lie?Let’s face it we could probably do with a more honest press but who would pay them? Just look at who owns corporate media.
Keith Parker it was unnecessary for many people who already had natural or acquired immunity. Forced vaccination was medically and morally invalid.
@@keithparker1346because you have natural resistance too
@@cantkeepitin I know from first hand experience someone got knocked for 6 by COVID so I think I will ignore your advice
Very Interesting
What an excellent piece. Nicely done.
Explain the choice to use an artificial image of a generic old man
when there are ample pictures of Chomsky the man.
The script done by machine learning is also concerning.
YEP, he looks like another old man
I kind of care more about the message this clip gives than if the picture is right
@@leoninocat5070 the message is a summary by artificial intelligence, just like the picture.
@@0MVR_0 I worry when somone or something is paraphrasing Chomsky's words and dieas: has he/it subtly misrepresented or "spun" some elements of the arguments?
@@juhanleemet quoting is the best method. Paraphrasing should be stated outright when referencing another's work.
The transcript delves into Noam Chomsky's critique of modern capitalist society, particularly focusing on the manipulation of information and media control, and its impact on the illusion of democracy. It begins by painting a picture of a world inundated with messages, from advertisements to political speeches, presenting a narrative of choice and freedom. However, Chomsky challenges this narrative, arguing that the flow of information is carefully manufactured to benefit a small elite at the expense of the majority.
He questions the idea of free markets, pointing out that while consumers may have choices in products, they lack control over broader systemic issues like fair wages and corporate influence. Chomsky asserts that capitalism inherently contradicts democratic principles by concentrating wealth and decision-making power in the hands of a privileged few.
The transcript discusses how mainstream media, despite claims of objectivity, serves the interests of corporate ownership and advertisers. Chomsky's "manufacturing consent" theory suggests that news coverage is shaped to maintain the status quo and suppress dissent, rather than facilitate informed public discourse.
Furthermore, Chomsky argues that the emphasis on individual freedoms and the spectacle of elections distract from deeper structural issues within society. He contends that true democracy requires collective action to challenge entrenched power dynamics and create a more equitable and sustainable system.
Overall, the transcript presents a critical analysis of contemporary society, urging listeners to question the narratives they've been fed and to strive for meaningful change towards a more just and democratic world.