It's sad that Bieber's "Baby" has 343 MILLION views when Chomsky gets 8500. "Ice Cream Paint Job" gets 11 MILLION views. Chomsky, 8500. Chris Brown's "With You": 105 MILLION. Chomsky: 8500. Just an observation...
Calling the gangster & bankster system we have is a lie. For a glimpse of true Free Market economics, read about Adam Smith in Wikipedia; Smith's seminal socio-economic paradigm addresses many of Chomsky's complaints, and is far more equitable for labor. And yes, we need to make this video go viral somehow. Chomsky and/or his acolytes (us) need to refine the message & add some appeal, credibility & marketing brilliance to it. Our country is at stake! Heavy lifting!
The evolution of recent human history has been dominated by minority control over the majority, the rulers have come up with nessesary illusion for compliance and servitude of the many, Science and technology has created a world of plenty, but the market mechanism is about artificial scarcity to perpetuate poverty and exploitation in a modality of war,enviornmental destructions,animal cruelty and so on . The new paradigm is sharing the Earth for our collective needs and wellbeing
In physics, the term "work" only applies when energy is transferred by force over distance, ie when something gets moved (further). In a "business-run society," people can make a living doing institutionally approved, but meaningless work.
A culture that puts money at the center of the world never truly gets the public good that services advertise. Sisyphus is doing noble work until you realize it's just his job, which means getting the boulder to the destination would defeat the purpose.
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I would have to admit he knows his stuff. The only problem is it seems to me his theories and make good sense and seem noble but its not practical in the real world outside of MIT lectures. Especially today, maybe in 1895.
thats just bullshit, it just takes effort and some blood sweat and tears to get there. The blood sweat and tears we now spend on fighting eachother for a little bit of wages to be able to pay rent and be subordinate.
Your attitude is exactly what corporations want. They want people to remain apathetic and obedient, a pure consumer who doesn't challenge the status quo. How would you know it's not practical? It's never been applied in the real world because whenever people try they're struck down by the rich and powerful who want to maintain control. We deserve better yet we continue to deny ourselves because we think this is as good as it gets.
@Kingarthur305 it's not practical to be angry at the way our wages are being cut down since 30 years while all the public money goes to the banks and companies that have been raping us all along? What's practical then? Just watching our corporations reintroducing child labor and slave labor in China and Indonesia and just sit back and wait for that to come home too, that's more practical?
@Kingarthur305 Your so right, human rights are not practical. I really hope they dramatically accelerate the erosion of civil liberties in addition to resources fundamental to human life. Now THAT'S what I call practicality! Nothing makes champagne tastes sweeter than knowing that the guy who delivered it is now homeless and quenching his thirst with raw sewage. Soon we'll have alarm clocks that burn poor people with a lit Cuban cigar, making them scream on the hour. Harumph!
Totally agree and I posted a message on the Susan Boyle (Britain's new singing sensation) post stating this. In comparison to this extremely important information the Boyle post has received well over a million hits. Especially sickening when the reality TV demographic are generally working class.
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Fascinating. Maybe that's a good thing for us who want to take care of ourselves instead of some labor professor complaining about workers. When will this guy realize his 1920 labor ideas are not conducive to modern life. He speaks as if its the tycoon era.
I'm afraid that the very noble workers he stridently advocates for have nothing in common with this high minded communist thinker. They are indeed pampered with their T.V.s, radios, satellites, cars, cell phones, unemployement, emergency health care, and everything that was unattainable to the real labor people in the 1930s these pathetic, workers of today don't need a revolution. They need to turn the T.V.s off and read a book.
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Ah, those darn pampered western workers and their luxurious lifestyles! But seriously if we 1st worlders life off the riches of the poor would that not mean that we would in fact lose some privilege/pampered wages as other workers become skilled, earn more and compete with us? Because we've been keeping them so poor and uneducated and with low standards of living as a way to enrich ourselves?
I think the short answer is no, but I can't think of the mechanism. The obvious answer would be to say "yes" but that's the same argument made against unions, worker's rights, safety regulation, etc - all of which made society immensely more livable for the vast majority of its inhabitants - so frankly it seems wrong. Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' would probably come into play and raise all boats, assuming it was also paired with his calls for democracy and strongly progressive taxation.
Yes, under capitalist bourgeois society, in which we live in. But if we have a truly democratic and socialist economic system, which Chomsky advocates, then no.
Reading the decline and fall of the roman empire is a lot like reading chomsky and the newspapers today
beradification 10 months ago
It's sad that Bieber's "Baby" has 343 MILLION views when Chomsky gets 8500. "Ice Cream Paint Job" gets 11 MILLION views. Chomsky, 8500. Chris Brown's "With You": 105 MILLION. Chomsky: 8500. Just an observation...
matthewschark 1 year ago
Calling the gangster & bankster system we have is a lie. For a glimpse of true Free Market economics, read about Adam Smith in Wikipedia; Smith's seminal socio-economic paradigm addresses many of Chomsky's complaints, and is far more equitable for labor. And yes, we need to make this video go viral somehow. Chomsky and/or his acolytes (us) need to refine the message & add some appeal, credibility & marketing brilliance to it. Our country is at stake! Heavy lifting!
SIMKINETICS 1 year ago
The evolution of recent human history has been dominated by minority control over the majority, the rulers have come up with nessesary illusion for compliance and servitude of the many, Science and technology has created a world of plenty, but the market mechanism is about artificial scarcity to perpetuate poverty and exploitation in a modality of war,enviornmental destructions,animal cruelty and so on . The new paradigm is sharing the Earth for our collective needs and wellbeing
arzoyan 1 year ago
In physics, the term "work" only applies when energy is transferred by force over distance, ie when something gets moved (further). In a "business-run society," people can make a living doing institutionally approved, but meaningless work.
A culture that puts money at the center of the world never truly gets the public good that services advertise. Sisyphus is doing noble work until you realize it's just his job, which means getting the boulder to the destination would defeat the purpose.
theseanze 1 year ago
It's as if Americans have perverted the words of Thoreau:
The brain that governs best, governs least.
brandnutopian 1 year ago
Lets try.....
General Strike !!!!!
centurion180ad 2 years ago
While I agree with Noam, he was mistaken in saying Debs was imprisoned for questioning the second world war.
Debs was dead before that war, he was imprisoned for questioning (and indeed, strongly opposing) the first.
wharghoul 2 years ago
Yes indeed
ipwnorcs 2 years ago
An obvious point of clarification as Woodrow Wilson was president during WWI.
brandnutopian 1 year ago
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I would have to admit he knows his stuff. The only problem is it seems to me his theories and make good sense and seem noble but its not practical in the real world outside of MIT lectures. Especially today, maybe in 1895.
Kingarthur305 2 years ago
thats just bullshit, it just takes effort and some blood sweat and tears to get there. The blood sweat and tears we now spend on fighting eachother for a little bit of wages to be able to pay rent and be subordinate.
withDefiance 2 years ago
Your attitude is exactly what corporations want. They want people to remain apathetic and obedient, a pure consumer who doesn't challenge the status quo. How would you know it's not practical? It's never been applied in the real world because whenever people try they're struck down by the rich and powerful who want to maintain control. We deserve better yet we continue to deny ourselves because we think this is as good as it gets.
Vaizard 2 years ago
@Kingarthur305 it's not practical to be angry at the way our wages are being cut down since 30 years while all the public money goes to the banks and companies that have been raping us all along? What's practical then? Just watching our corporations reintroducing child labor and slave labor in China and Indonesia and just sit back and wait for that to come home too, that's more practical?
PavedStones 1 year ago
@Kingarthur305 Your so right, human rights are not practical. I really hope they dramatically accelerate the erosion of civil liberties in addition to resources fundamental to human life. Now THAT'S what I call practicality! Nothing makes champagne tastes sweeter than knowing that the guy who delivered it is now homeless and quenching his thirst with raw sewage. Soon we'll have alarm clocks that burn poor people with a lit Cuban cigar, making them scream on the hour. Harumph!
zoobly3 1 year ago
love ya noam.
donkey69donkey69 2 years ago 3
Totally agree and I posted a message on the Susan Boyle (Britain's new singing sensation) post stating this. In comparison to this extremely important information the Boyle post has received well over a million hits. Especially sickening when the reality TV demographic are generally working class.
aphex303101 2 years ago 2
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Fascinating. Maybe that's a good thing for us who want to take care of ourselves instead of some labor professor complaining about workers. When will this guy realize his 1920 labor ideas are not conducive to modern life. He speaks as if its the tycoon era.
Kingarthur305 2 years ago
I'm afraid that the very noble workers he stridently advocates for have nothing in common with this high minded communist thinker. They are indeed pampered with their T.V.s, radios, satellites, cars, cell phones, unemployement, emergency health care, and everything that was unattainable to the real labor people in the 1930s these pathetic, workers of today don't need a revolution. They need to turn the T.V.s off and read a book.
Kingarthur305 2 years ago
You hit the nail on the head, brother.
Taors 2 years ago
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Ah, those darn pampered western workers and their luxurious lifestyles! But seriously if we 1st worlders life off the riches of the poor would that not mean that we would in fact lose some privilege/pampered wages as other workers become skilled, earn more and compete with us? Because we've been keeping them so poor and uneducated and with low standards of living as a way to enrich ourselves?
AldinTheMad 4 years ago
I think the short answer is no, but I can't think of the mechanism. The obvious answer would be to say "yes" but that's the same argument made against unions, worker's rights, safety regulation, etc - all of which made society immensely more livable for the vast majority of its inhabitants - so frankly it seems wrong. Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' would probably come into play and raise all boats, assuming it was also paired with his calls for democracy and strongly progressive taxation.
baseballnolie34 3 years ago 8
Yes, under capitalist bourgeois society, in which we live in. But if we have a truly democratic and socialist economic system, which Chomsky advocates, then no.
ipwnorcs 2 years ago
@AldinTheMad 1st world workers live off the riches of the poor? Explain...
PavedStones 1 year ago