Noam Chomsky at Kutztown University - Nov. 21, 2011

[firstonethrough]

watch these videos:

Jordan's Queen Rania slams Palestinians and UNRWA;

Stats & facts: Jews and the US Foreign Policy; and

I hate Israel - the UN told me so

[infiniteinfiniteinfi]

Chomsky's analysis of human affairs has a level of rationality rarely seen outside of the hard sciences. I can only think of a few who come even close; Zinn, Parenti, West, Graeber and Ferguson. Do you know of any other people that might be of interest? thanks

[discodiscohippos]

...Kutztown University?

[RealNewsAustralia]

please tell me the big man chomsky doesn't support the corrupt UN?

[artistbeinghuman]

@RealNewsAustralia If the UN considers chomsky to be relevant contributor to policy, then what is your problem? I don't follow your "logic".

[PhytoInhalation]

Chomsky @ 3:40

[mstryic]

long live Chomsky!

[mstryic]

long live Chomsky

[mstryic]

long live chomsky

[Alfdehombre24]

Nice comments everyone. This guy is good and relays a lot of fact which facts which obviously display the incompetence of those governing and the Gov systems around our planet, not only in the US. There is a new recently presented system called "Geniocracy" (Google it please). In how to get the right calibre of leaders in the right places to achieve real results, and I believe it is one that real geniuses will recognise. And I am confident that Noam would agree with and endorse.

[Democrat93]

@Alfdehombre24 Check out my channel to see my new interview with Noam Chomsky!

[KUTVgroucho]

Isn't it interesting that most of the respondents to this video seem to brainwashed useful idiots of the Left who unfortunately spent 4-5 years being indoctrinated by latent America hating Marxists and feckless collectivists who infest our nation's colleges and universities, like Kutztown?

[tstruss912]

@KUTVgroucho You're a sad little troll. Everything you said is bullshit. I won't go over it again. You feel that Chomsky and the rest of us should praise everything Israel and America does--we won't. Your morality is based on obeying authority and ours is based on caring about people, so we'll never agree. Let's not waste anymore time talking to each other.

[KUTVgroucho]

@tstruss912 You clueless kids are all the same. The moment anyone produces actual documentation, you resort to calling people trite meaningless names like "troll" because you can't defend the indefensible. My morality is based on MY country right or wrong, because it is STILL the best, but not the most perfect, country in the whole world. If you don't like it here, you are free to leave at any time. Go to Cuba and live off boiled grapefruit rinds, bananas, and cheap rum with your commie friends.

[KUTVgroucho]

@KUTVgroucho By the way, the only thing you and your Jew hating commie loving friends actually "care" about is ripping the USA and Israel, just like your sick hero Chumpsky. Josef Stalin would have loved you. He hated Jews, too, and killed tens of thousands of them. Now GFY, commie.

[JagjeetMann]

@KUTVgroucho This is actually hilarious, its like I've stepped back in time to the 1950s, seriously which backwater did you crawl out from? I always try to give Americans chances to be intelligent but you're making it hard man, stop it I'm killing myself laughing here.

[KUTVgroucho]

@JagjeetMann This comment arrives from a clueless 20 year old third worlder who would be goosestepping to Wagner and eating bratwurst for breakfast if hadn't been for my country saving your sorry asses 70 years ago. Go take a shower for a change. Being smelly is not cool. Try using an anti-perspirant next time, too.

[RSFO]

@KUTVgroucho And when Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein produce massive evidence you call them commies, Chumpsky, pro-Stalin, and pro-Pol Pot. And what does it help to leave your country, when it is dictating policies and constructs bases everywhere on the planet? We live in the shadow cast by US imperial polytricks. Either under vassal states or socalled rogue states. Your country acts as if serving an alien species called Corporations. Free yourself for the sake of yourself!

[KUTVgroucho]

@RSFO You can produce all the "evidence" you want, but if your conclusions are always skewed to favor your anti-USA bias, then what good is it? Spend less time poring over abstract philosophical texts and look at the world with a rational unemotional eye. You either serve under the banner of freedom and democracy that gives you a better than average chance to prosper if you are intelligent and driven to success or under the banner of totalitarianism with very few freedoms and personal rights.

[KUTVgroucho]

@KUTVgroucho Chumpsky prospered VERY well by the freedoms and liberty provided by the US Constitution while brave men spilled their blood on battlefields so he can spew his hateful bile. If he had lived in the USSR or China he would have been killed by now. Remember how the world works. It's conquer or BE conquered. That's reality. University texts don't teach reality, that's the problem. They teach what it COULD be like in a utopian sense with everything fair and equal and just.

[RSFO]

@KUTVgroucho You are talking about the American Dream. It is called so because you have to be asleep to believe it, as George Carlin said.

[KUTVgroucho]

@RSFO As I recall, George Carlin ALSO prospered VERY WELL in the system he so casually bashed when he was alive smoking dope everyday and telling semi-humorous jokes on stage without fear of being arrested and hauled off to any political "re-education" camps, right?

[KUTVgroucho]

@RSFO Ironic that you should impugn the American way of life, you who lives in a little monarchy (a little outdated, wouldn't you say?) and are overtaxed to pay for cradle-to-grave entitlements. No wonder you feel the way you do. You've been robbed of any sense of personal resolve. You are too used to living in a nanny state. Government is the guarantor of your health and prosperity. No wonder you love another Big Statist model... communism.

[RSFO]

@KUTVgroucho 

[montelatici]

A great thinker and man.



[tomdamho]

Noam must be fit, I cant believe the number and duration of talks he stands up in. I feel bad but here is hoping he makes it to 120 years old that would be awesome.

[LPNeptune]

can I download Noam Chomsky's brain and upload it to mine plz

[KUTVgroucho]

@LPNeptune Why? You want to be braindead like he is?

[Jimmyjim2307]

One Cheney did not like this video.

[mesler1]

I was disappointed that when it was asked if any corporations exhibited the qualities sought that Semco was not mentioned. A democratic workplace where workers set their own salaries, choose their own managers, and come and go as they please, it has thrived for over 25 years. If Ron Paul supporters wanted more Semcos, would that change anyone's view?

The Caring Capitalist:

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Leading by Omission:

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[dieyoung]

noam chomsky is a socialist. unbelievable.

[JagjeetMann]

@dieyoung how the hell is that unbelieveable? most of the world has socialist views, anti business views to an extent, its just a realisation of those values. only a minority in america support ultrafree markets and ayn rand cults, as well as being stupid fools which is why the whole world laughs at you.

[dieyoung]

@JagjeetMann please. are you against private property too? the main construct of civilization? how would an anarcho-socialist (a contradiction in terms) society exist if it were not for a central body regulating the means of production? Aka a state? There has never been a monopoly on any product or service without the aid of some type coercive assistance granted to special interests by kings or democratic governments.

[JagjeetMann]

@dieyoung private property is a childish construct of humans, what it actually means is a cover of control over property and control of others, there a many things, trees bees, animals gardens etc that are not private property. Holding things in common for all was a popular idea during the 18th Century-19th Century Europe and even in US and was shown to be more beneficial but was crushed because of landlords who didn't want to sell their property (slaves sersf and land) lmaoo dumbass

[KUTVgroucho]

@JagjeetMann Hey, why not move to Cuba and eat boiled grapefruit rinds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with those poor schmucks who are denied personal property rights and other freedoms enjoyed in democracies.

[the81kid]

@KUTVgroucho

Also known as the poor in the USA, having their houses repossessed, and voting in a sham of a democracy.

[KUTVgroucho]

@JagjeetMann Property is a "childish construct"? It's obvious that you don't have any.

[RSFO]

@JagjeetMann Wow, finally someone knocks sense into those brainwashed poor yanks. ;-)

[7777neox]

Thank you Noam. Very informative lecture.

[tstruss912]

Damn! Can you imagine being over 80 and still being so hardcore! This guy is my hero.

[Gurra88]

@tstruss912

He knows a lot. I can imagine him at dinners with his family and his son in law.

-Sir, what's your take on the situation in Libya?

-No, don't!!!

-*holds lecture for five hours*

[Hedstrom1973]

@Gurra88 He never indoctrinated his kids, at least accordning to himself, he didn't even want them to go to college. He changed that opinion when he was risking prison. Nice comment though. :)

[walawalid]

@tstruss912 I totally agree with you! We need more people like him in this country!

[KUTVgroucho]

@tstruss912 Yes, some "hero." He rails against the inequities of wealth in America and yet, he owns and occupies multimillion dollar homes in Boston and on Cape Cod. Some "hero," a self-loathing Jew who would gladly sell out the homeland of his people to the very bloodthirsty thugs who have pledged to destroy it and its citizens. Some hero, who back in the 70s, wrote positively about communist butcher Pol Pot and the "great" things he was doing for the Cambodian people.

[tstruss912]

@KUTVgroucho  OK, that's a nice bunch of bullshit. He never praised ANY dictator; he loves himself and all Jews; and he gives most of his money and time to charity. What are you really trying to say? Quit being a pussy and just come out with it. Does he threaten your worldview? Do you fear his actions because they might cause chaos? Just be blunt and honest and say what you really think, not a bunch of bullshit.

[KUTVgroucho]

@tstruss912 Are you kidding? The American Left in the 60s/70s LOVED commie leaders in SE Asia and welcomed the Khmer Rouge into Cambodia. Chumpsky considered Pol Pot a revolutionary hero and downplayed the news of the the killing fields genocide as likely more the result of "anti-communist propaganda" and American Imperialism (The Nation, 6/77). Any Jew who doesn't love Israel and what it represents since Balfour and after the Holocaust is self-hating.

[KUTVgroucho]

@KUTVgroucho If you were truly interested in reading some actual BS, read Chumpsky's The Nation article from 6/77 titled "Distortions at Fourth Hand." Find a website that posts refuations of many of the article's assertions. Chumpsky clearly loves any commie leader and regime and hates America, in addition to Israel, which he considers to be an "anti-democratic" national construct that should have never been formed.

[shallbeagain]

Thank you.

[NLivity]

Wow, he is old and still going strong. Inspiration to us all!

[LiveVegan]

Thanks Noam :)

[occupypoet]

Every time, Chomsky is asked, "what should we do?" And every time he shrugs and says something like, participate, educate, activate and so on.

He is extremely humble and honest to admit that he does not have all the answers and that it is for individuals to find their strengths and use it to the best moral purpose, as he has done throughout his life.

[Christine2369]

@occupypoet Chomsky is suppressing his annoyance with "What should we do?" Too often it gets asked rhetorically: there is nothing to be done so let's go home and abandon activism. And it's asked by privileged white Americans who face low risk in protesting. Some years ago Chomsky replied (approximately), "Go ask an illiterate Haitian peasant. They seem to have figured out what to do." Bertrand Russell likewise challenged this stupid question in an interview with Studs Terkel.

[KUTVgroucho]

@Christine2369 Just like most liberal dumbasses, all bitching and bile for America, the country that has allowed him to achieve and afford multimillion dollar homes, without clue one as to how to fix anything he thinks is wrong. You want revolution? You think it's so bad? The take to the streets in armed rebellion if you are so serious about it. Our Forefathers provided for it in our Constitution. Protest isn't squatting in front of a bank and defecating on public property.

[Christine2369]

@occupypoet Addendum: Russell's response, in part, was, "This 'powerlessness' of the individual is a form of cowardice. It’s a pretense, an alibi for doing nothing."

The interview excerpt can be found in the "Democracy Now!" radio broadcast "Legendary Radio Broadcaster and Oral Historian Studs Terkel on the Iraq War, NSA Domestic Spy Program, Mahalia Jackson, James Baldwin, the Labor Movement and His New Memoir 'Touch and Go,'" broadcast date November 13, 2007.

(Can't post URLs.)

[occupypoet]

@Christine2369 I agree that Chomksy is exasperated but I also think that there is an ideological aspect to his reluctance to give specific advice. I've heard him say, a number of times, that the improved future world cannot be planned by a few individuals but must come about collectively and is therefore unpredictable (though he does have his personal views about what it might look like). (Thanks will look up that interview btw.)

[LawnChairMedia]

good answer chomsky gives at 1:33...I should add that press that is "free" is usually better...that means the news organization in question is not for profit or funded by for-profit institutions...nor is it run by a power structure like a government...if its simply funded by viewers/subscribers, their only interest is usually just to be informed as well as can possibly be...individual biases will exist, but like he said, if the bias is known, you can make better judgments on its validity

[LawnChairMedia]

@LawnChairMedia 1:33:00 i mean..sorry

[LawnChairMedia]

@LawnChairMedia 1:33:00 i mean..sorry

[rebharath]

@1:06:22 great question and great answer "we can do almost anything. this isn't egypt. .... there's too much freedom that has been won for this to happen"

[occupypoet]

Thank you for sharing this.