Modern-Day Socrates : Noam Chomsky on Speaking the Truth

[Manolo1013]

Genius!

[warnermarsh]

Thanks for posting all of these videos!

[herraotic]

He could also be implying for westerners to not have a self-righteous attitude to intervention and to allow citizens of a particular country to yield democracy by themselves, although exceptions are present.

[herraotic]

I think he is referring to the experience of repression. By "truth" perhaps he means to say practical implications of war. After all he was probably lecturing to a middle-class audience who have to such experience. "Kind of people" and "they often know a lot more than we do" are important to bear.

[zaharafree]

He says while power already knows the truth, none of us know the truth. Is he speaking of two separate categories of truth? it is interesting. thanks for posting.

[herraotic]

He recognises that those with authority know why they should keep it. While those repressed (in the majority), aren't aware or acknowledge these elementary consequences of the "democratic" institutions.

In "Understanding Power", he writes about the futility of lecturing to power - discussing these issues at elite universities or congress is just pandering to them.