Chomsky super lecture p.1

[bogdank100]

To jrwilmont: 1. Horatio Alger is a demonstrable myth. The vast majority of "successful" people either inherited their wealth, or grew up in situations where they were mentored and supported by insiders. Working people in boardrooms - what world do you inhabit?? 2. Strong economies are the environment for strong civil, political, and cultural societies?? Again, what world do you live in? Dictatorships, created by huge corporations have strong economies but no civics, politics, culture.

[jrwilmott]

So much of what he has to say is utterly compelling. It is such a tragedy that he confuses sociology with economics. Robust countries, culturally, politically, and civically all have strong economies... It is that way round. And the class war? Board rooms across the OECD are peopled mainly by the working class made good. It is the professions that hold out the working class, not business.

[Kurzula5150]

Who is going to replace this man when he dies?

[mistermoen]

This is an excerpt from Chomsky's Government in the future. I don't think you should rename it and chop it up. It was better in the context in which he originally said it. You should at least note the source.

[bcn533]

@mistermoen Agreed. This is fucking sad mr1001nights. If you're going to excerpt it, do it on the basis of topic and state that it came from such and such talk. Maybe even provide a link to the full talk so people hear it. That to me is the value of excerpting.

[malcolm1704]

What will we do when this guy is no longer with us to help us to vocalise so graphically the eniquities of the current capitalist system. He is a genius

[elsamuraiguapo]

Chomsky is a genius.

[Tuppington]

nah he's just the most literate person on earth

[Slavestorms]

Monetary-ism is a great way to control people through debt slavery.

The media does a good job of telling people everything is going great, get back to work.

Earth, a nice place to visit if you like to shop.

[Nabo00o]

Ah. Earth will also be a very nice place to live on for everyone, once things have been set straight. He kinda makes me think on it much more simpler, people should and have probably always demanded more rights and equality, but confusion and complexity in the sytem makes its hard for us to voice our opinion, and make it happen.

But it is possible...

[JesusManson323]

@Slavestorms

A Ukrainian woman is sold into sex slavery against her will and told she "owes" her pimps for their costs of enslaving her.

We are told we owe our overlords for the privilege of their enslavement of our lives.

Both examples use money as the medium for the enslaving process.

[Slavestorms]

There has to be a better way. The transition would be the hardest part. People fear change.

[Braindrain3]

@JesusManson323 just as the US invasion of Iraq in which they are financing the invasion through the sale of Iraqi crude that is stolen from the people. Iraq according to the US elites must pay for the US invasion monetarily. How do you justify that bull shit?

[Leibo07]

Idem !!

[blueledz]

Thank you very much for uploading this lecture, mr1001nights!