Noam Chomsky - Why Propaganda Works

[blackdogleg]

get the facts straight people, Canada has the worlds second largest oil reserve

[kentuckymudbutt]

To bad Chomsky can't figure out that 9/11 was a joo job.

[silverakisame]

Are you going for irony in making a propaganda video about propaganda?

[missingt00th]

@silverakisame WTF is propagandic about this video, pal? Enlighten me.

[cf40409]

Anyone who thinks oil is not worth fighting over is a perfect specimen for those who want to survey the power of propaganda.

[missingt00th]

@cf40409 @cf40409 Oh, and you've got it all figured out, eh, Einstein? That's a fucking retarded statement. We could have switched to renewable resources and energy (unlike oil, dipshit) and we could alleviate and eventually, hopefully, eliminate a lot of the competition that morons like you support. But I guess that me just going so far as to suggest that possibility makes me an idealist or optimist, and it makes you a fucking asshole.

[cf40409]

@missingt00th Well you have quite the potty mouth, but I happen to agree with much of your counterposition. If we were not so dependent on oil, we would be less likely to care about what, say, a Saddam Hussein type does with his natural oil resources. But I would phrase the issue another way: given that oil is currently a necessity for any productive economy, should we rule out the possibility of intervention, economic or otherwise, to minimize the squandering of this crucial resource?

[RussMaxable]

I mean like the professor said...fact is fact,they can be checked and backed up and explored it's not letting that to happen or not talking about it because it's off limit's that causers the damage by misleading people and stopping there real education in an open and reasoned way.If you are allowed to see fact's and there is a light shined on how thing's work then you can make up your mind in a more informed way.Everybody has a cause and the professor's cause is to simple say what he think's.

[catchpole11]

listen to this, don't watch it.

[shadowC10ne]

Good video but I didn't like how it was composited: textual information is given at the same time while there is speech so I can't process both at the same time. I'm not good at multi-tasking. ;D

[arzoyan]

NOAM CHOMSKY , THE MAN THE TEACHER THE REVOLUTIONARY

[kwokjaewoo]

Check definition of propaganda below.

Education is getting huge amount of ideas over to a small group of people, and propaganda is getting a small number of ideas over to a huge amount of people.

Merriam-Webster

2 the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause or a person

3 ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause

That makes this video...(drum roll please) propaganda.

[DontEatEggs666]

@kwokjaewoo That makes your comment.... (drum roll, please) propaganda.

[RussMaxable]

@kwokjaewoo I disagree I think this gets a huge amount of ideas across myself and with only 12,000 views I'd say that's a pretty small educated amount of people.Everything can be everything,name's are name's all you need to know if the cause is just and be able to explain why,am the professor it's about being able to know truth from false idea's and it takes time.Everything here is factual.

[Oakrraegi]

2:50 "Their" is spelled wrong

[5iF3R]

My favorite part of the manufacturing of consent by Chomsky.

Good job!

[134jallen]

"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You dont need to manipulate TIME magazine, for example, because there are Agency people at the management level."

-William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The CIA And The Media, by Carl Bernstein

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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."

-William Colby, former CIA Director.

Derailing Democracy, by Dave McGowan

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Noam? CIA asset.

[JohnnyRock2000]

How many things less than a personal nature do people really learn. Most of these things are taught then. We learn from listening to other peoples ideas and experiences. If those ideologies are bent to direct our learning even falsely, it will work. Best to consider that all things that we personally have not learned for ourselves are myths to be proven.

[Venue0309]

Just exchange the drug cartels with the Oil and Gas cartels, and exchange the "war on drugs" with the "war against al-queda", and you will see it's the same paradox. The government assists Big Oil in being as rich as the Drug cartels by both making oil illegally for a country to have, and increasing its demand by suppressing: renewable fuels, low-emission cars etc. By doing this, they have created a population that is so reliant on oil, and these Cartels, that they wage war on their behalf.

[Venue0309]

@Venue0309 George Bush profited massively from it--that's why you see a lot of mob guys and criminals join government--it's easier to sweep out their competition and make money.

[Venue0309]

I like this video because it doesnt just show that the government lies, but why they lie to us. Because it's not just about controlling the population and forming a one world government; it's about getting rich in the only way they know how, through coercion, stealing, lying, killing, and everything that resembles the mob. By playing fair, they can't win.

[eyetube7]

How is someone able to say so much interesting stuff in such little time? And Ironically he's criticized for his lack of 'concision'.

[TrygviMurt]

Very good video. Good example of how propaganda works.

[Eldel15]

Chomsky sums it up elegantly

[dankbot420]

does anyone know the name of the song in the background?

[Osmann45]

Also, watch the movie called "the wave" its really good, and is about this!

[q1908q]

u can fool some people for all the time

u can fool all the people for some time

BUT u can't fool all the people for all the time.

when will americans realize that their government is fucking the whole worlds peace...

[PatrickWJ]

we're not the only ones

[emulator900]

ugh kill the music. chomsky's words stand on their own.

[s10RooS]

U ARE DUMB

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[feenaleen332]

bullshitter?...seriously come one

[Mystery207]

i don't like chomsky any more after seeing manufacturing dissent. He Is too much of a bullshitter. If you listen closely he really never says anything. That's a bullshitter.

[spits32]

It was not a very good movie, granted. He didn't have anything to do with it, really, and has actually said that he thinks it is a poor portrayal of himself. Watch some more of the vids on youtube though, esp the marijuana one. How can you not like that?

[VelikiBedak]

He just said something.

[PloughTheSky]

Yeah it's not a very good movie, bu I strongly disagree with your saying Chomsky doesn't say anything. If you want to know his ideas don't just listen to sound bites, rather go read his articles scattered on the internet, or even better, his books ('Understanding Power' and 'Deterring Democracy' are great to start, you will be blown away). Or watch his lectures on google.video, like 'Distorted Mentality', thats a great one.

[Boleiro]

STUPIDITY is lack of intelligence....there's no cure. It's a genetic GIFT

The vast majority of people are VERY STUPID...they cant think for themselves...so it's VERY EASY to guide and manipulate their thought. It worked for the Romans....it works for the US

[Psycarne]

That's a very misanthropic argument, which I do not agree with.

When people are given a very narrow framework within which they can analyse how the world works, with so much of history omitted, it is hard for them to understand what is really going on.

The differences between the intellectual and the uncritical are frequently class related. It is not simply innate. These problems are structural, not biological. It is not that millions of people are just 'stupid'.

[Boleiro]

Ok.....how would you make a person more intelligent ?

[iwiwla22]

Implementing critical pedagogy is a start. Actually caring for people and becoming involved with some kind of activism helps. Lending time to community centers, offering parenting skills classes and reading as much history as possible. Always encourage people to think for themselves. Its too easy to let someone else do the thinking for you.

[violetdays]

@iwiwla22 I agree 100% well said.

[SororThothma]

@Psycarne If truthfulness and reasonableness, coupled with an ingrained sense of personal responsibility, personal integrity, ingenuity, initiative, and means of socially rewarding intellectual courage (rather than suppressing our natural, and varied cognition and creativity) could be realistically implemented - starting with cleaning up all our mass media and reigning in all our corporations) - then our human intelligence would manifest and be radiant.

[Lachdenan]

@Psycarne I like your comment on misanthropic argument. While I, too, get irritated by seemingly deluded masses, most people are incredibly capable of reason, they are just merely ill-informed, which serves enough purpose in and of itself. And there is a HUGE omission of history for some special interest's purposes, most of the time. Bravo to your assessment.

[Shavarnarak]

@Psycarne

I wish it was true that only with some education we wouldn't have the problems we have.

Sure maybe 'stupid' is not a very nuanced word. But if I told you the vast majority of people is intellectually lazy and nearly completely reigned by their emotions, I wouldn't be lying at all. And even if they aren't necessarily truly stupid in THEORY, they tend to be rather dim in practice.

Us misanthropes are really generally right, that's the depressing thing about life.

[oihhow]

@Shavarnarak Well, like Chomsky says, human nature is nothing but the evolutionary history combined with social conditioning. The biological aspects are fixed, but the social conditioning is completely open; you can turn humans into anything you want. The humans all societies up until now have been producing have been generally simple-minded, submissive, lazy, easily manipulated, etc. It's not the people's fault, it's the society and the conditioning people receive from the day they are born.

[antoniozart]

@Psycarne I agree. but as Chomsky said: "it is because we work"~ and I would add for wages. The entire economy is a scheme to make rich rich etc etc. until, as Peter Joseph is saying, the entire economy and its values of materialism and greed are destroyed, this misery will continue... to be led into a stupid existence doing stupid work is cynical and dispicable. Derrick Jensen goes farther and sees our entire civilization as unsustainable.

[behradng]

this very true not in every case but its very very true

[dirkcjelli]

There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. People aren't stupid, and given how intelligence is measured and defined, it isn't really possible for 'the vast majority to be very stupid,' as intelligence is relative to the performance of others.

This video explains why people, even very successful people, are -ignorant-. Ignorance is a consequence of miseducation and propaganda.

[vanderbilt887]

spot on

[GanzLONDON]

@Boleiro Couldn't agree less. If you raise a kid without books, without dialogue, without education, take away their family, their means to have a decent health, make them work for over 8hs a day for 50 years. And feed them with TV crap, while teaching them the value of futility and how stupid (NERD ) you would look if you ever decided to think , then maybe you would be right.

[johnmacward]

@Boleiro Interestingly, our leaders capitalism is an example of something that shows enormous stupidity. A horrific waste of resources, a completely irrational love affair with short term profits, no basic moral code even for the sake of popular stability and many more things that lack any kind of intelligence.

[brerlapine]

You made a great collaboration. Thank you.

[grovestreetthug]

its not really a question of if, but when we will go to war with Iran...All possible candidates have signed off...In some ways, I don't see our military as being the "ultimate evil" that some claim it to be, In a way it is essential in the (current stupid) world to compete with China for dominance. If we could put our combined nations capital together, we could fund medicine, science, space exploration (anti-matter), but this is a dream from a dreamer, but i know I'm not the only one....

[LeeCountyArkansas]

Hillary's Obama smears fit right in-- Rezko, Canadagate, fake Muslim photos, the "sinister minster" story...

[aamonti]

Great video.

But you should recheck your "hegemony" definition. The one you have is probably off some vocabulary. Check "Hegemony" and Antonio Gramsci, who "invented" the word/ the concept.

Regardless, great video.

[Psycarne]

Gramsci's defintion is generally described as an 'eloborated theory of hegemony'. I agree with you that the definition that I provided is limited (it is a dictionary definition), but I wanted to keep it brief.

Thanks for your response :)