Well, Noam, I was with you up until you mentioned Willie Horton. The fact of the matter is race is a huge problem in this country and white voters have every reason to be afraid of black criminals. Whether or not this fear gives certain political elements more power or not does not change that fact.
you gentiles are Pathetic Always take some jew and make him god or Messiah just like the jesus and kerl marx and know this noam chomsky did you ever wondering why is this all your biggst gods and messiah and your intellectuals from right and left are jewish and you wonder how we the jews call are self the chosen people dont diss this
comment in 100 yreas from know your kids will things that holly histroy just like your Fathers Though't even the arebs belive in a jewish idea of god
Humans are the only animals that consciously use logic to heighten survival, contrary to other animals like insects which are uncounsciously affected by evolution, humans can speed up chances of survival by rational thinking.
Honestly, I don't think that you need to scare conservatives to get them to follow you; all you need to do is pretend to care about their values and then start barking orders. I think this fear based crap is meant to get moderates behind the plan.
I think he exaggerates a lot order to fit the factors into his theory. That however doesn't mean that there are some (majority) elements of truth in his speech.
I'm so glad that we have the internet and sites like YouTube where anyone can access imperative information such as this. Things can only get better from here.
once upon a time, americans decided they didnt need kings, for they believed that free men should only bow to god.. and they took action..all americans did this, because those that didnt, considered themselves brits..well, soon enough, the old ugly ass head of tyranny crept back in...and low and behold, americans soon forgot that they were once free, until the southern states decided enough was enough.. but lincoln led the union in crushing freedom once again, so here we are, still ruled by evil
@longfootbuddy The south was complete and utter shit, don't blow your own horn as no one gives a shit since the bugle boy got eaten by the Big Bad wolf; Hell the bugle boy was the boy who cried wolf.
fear is a mind-killer ... and all governments are taking advantage of this in order to push their unrealistic policies and theories .... but us 'the public' have to deal with the consequence of their actions.... its a shame he is old, he would have made a great president !!
yeah, well... the fact is that noam was all dickish when it came to 9/11. sure, he can talk about "massive successful media campaign" till the end of time, sure. ask him about certain details? sheesh. it's like
listening to james meigs or mccain. so, i dunno what yer problem is, missy... noam acted like a dick
when asked about 9/11 and that's that. as chinodumbasses said "why worry"? we have it all figured out.
@911reset Look at the options market on the airlines involved. 400% increase shorting the day before. Obviously no one knew anything. Maybe you slept through that part.
@911reset: See another video of his to see his response.
In short, he does not believe it was an in-house conspiracy. But he does find our armed forces unacceptably slow to react, which might've been intentional.
@911reset: And why the fuck should I give a damn about what you think? Why worry? Your kind will fizzle out eventually, having wasted your energies for ultimately nothing.
because challenging the powers-that-be is a surefire way to be marginalized by the powers-that-be.
also, most of chomsky's observations require a basic knowledge of history, politics, and current events, which the american education system doesn't really heap on in droves...
What Chomsky spoke about, he said is nothing new... they've been doing it since the 80's. But its even older than that. Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays (then, world's foremost professional mental conniver) convinced Americans whom had recently defeated the extremely formidably competent, industrialized, 1st world nations of Germany & Japan, that the impoverished, 3rd world, politically unstable, central American country of Guatemala were going to kill us with bananas. Thus the corporate oligarchy
already then, having the US military at its disposal, sent them to disarm the dangerous Guatemalans of their nuclear bananas. After which, America's righteous arms dealers sold the deadly bananas to ally nations on the international arms market. The US founders were indeed Christians & Washington advised that we should neither get too intimately friendly with foreign nations, nor use our strength to impose upon our neighbors. But rather, be good to them. Our 1913 infiltrator, oligarch, Marxist,
authoritarian rulers have subversively manipulated, influenced, deceived, bribed & strong armed many from amongst all Americans & have even spoiled the Leftists rotten with victim's entitlements in order to gain American's endorsement or simply the indifferently dismissive power enough to steer America into committing both things that G. Washington warned against. Not to mention, many other evils has America done... against ourselves & others
Now, Chomsky, do I turn to thee, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. Thou art a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
Grenada was invaded a few days after the Marine bombing in Beirut, one Hezbollah suicide bomber drove Reagan and his Marines out of Lebanon. So Granada got thumped to make Reagan and his Marines feel better. Check it on Wiki.
I wonder what American politics would be if economic problems were actually discussed in elections. I bet we would have almost social democratic or even farther left policies. Obama would be a republican.
Why does Prof Chomskey refer to America as the "most free country in the world".How can a country be the free est, if its press is one of the weakest in the western world.And when its Political class seems to be completely impotent ?
@ANTIDALLARD He means personal freedoms. Most advanced capitalist states require this illusion of personal freedom so they can control the media and government. It doesn't matter if you're not free, all that matters to them is that you continue to believe that you are
this is rubbish.the only way to stop the wars is to go to joemainstreet(a way to end the war) on youtube to help start a real movement by not paying your credit cards and getting your bumper sticker in circulation to let the nation know.
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Go watch 9/11/01 tapes you dumb fuck, now imagine yourself in one of those buildings, in your final moments before being crushed to death. That's fear, you animal. It's too bad you weren't one of the dead.
While this clip was full of great stuff, I'd have to say my favorite was when he mentioned that no other country, not even the ones bordering Iraq believed that they were responsible for the 911 attacks.
Truly logical. We need more people like this guy.
Chomsky could further cynically point out the irony that Grenada was a country created by the US during the US Civil War. A construct for intellectualised free black men that no longer wanted to live in the US and that refused the other option of going to Liberia. Yet, another disastrous construct.
I am also surprised he didn't mention Lebanon, which is fertile material from the wonderfully rich comedy goldmine of the Reagan era. I am amazed that so many people think Reagan was either conservative or a good president, and so many still consider him one of the best, haha. Those same people ironically tend to denounce Bush the Younger, which indicates further delusion, or at least pathalogical dishonesty.
This man has excellent insight but I am bothered that he feels we are ALL indoctrinated. Those against these waars and propaganda get absolutely no air time because of any influence they might have. More are becoming afraid of their own government (not others) believing any kind of ball dropping (made to look like "someone else did it") isnt true at all given its past history.
Please know that Americans are split between those who believe what they hear and those who do not
He is obviously terribly disappointed that he is not witnessing the outward aggression towards the government that he lived through in the sixties. He is despondent towards a lack of revolutionary zeal that was so present when he became famous and recognised. I think in that sense he is seeing all peoples are indoctrinated, in lieu of the status quo which we clearly do not belong to, as the more utopian society he envisions becomes less and less likely. A thought.
I agree with your comment except that the society we want is not becoming less and less likely. That sentiment/thinking is what frustrates Chomsky and me. It is becoming more likely and in fact, would already be the case if less people thought they were powerless or if less people 'surrendered' to such cynicism.
I like your optimism and I hope you are right. I am very vocal about personal/cultural awareness and have never abandoned my questioning of absolute authority for want of a better world. Chomsky's frustration presumably stems from his want to see it in his lifetime. I live by preference in one of the last communist countries on earth, albeit more capitalist than America, and feel that I have affected change. It only takes a few but steadfastly determined people. Thanks. After the revolution!
Thank you! The internet will be the death of totalitarianism, because millions of ideas are flying across the globe every second of the day. True freedom for all Humanity will come. In the meantime, you're right, it begins with a "few but steadfastly determined people." Peace, Comrade!!
One of my fears is that Forums like You-Tube will be used like the "Flowers" Campaign in China where contending thoughts ultimately were used to prosecute those trusting enough to speak freely.
You're, but then again, if that were the case, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in here in the states.
YouTube, and the internet in general, are good reflections of where the interests of most Americans lie. They couldn't care less about this stuff, they'd rather watch a video of some self-important little teenage attention-whore doing something stupid, or find out what their favorite celeb is up to.
Probably why they're all so gullible and easily manipulate/scared by the right-wing.
elso muracrapo your the one who is un-educated. about the west. your talking about teens and twenty somethings ,they dont run the country ,and rarely vote ,unless there brainwashed to vote for obama ,you have no idea of the mind set of the average american.
It's easy to think that if you're a cynic, but it's also easy enough to know that anyone smart and worthwhile enough will also watch videos like this. Stupid people have been around forever.
Stupid people have been around forever, but proportions matter, and they do change. Read the beginning of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Also John Taylor Gatto's An Underground History of American Education. Americans were actually far better educated in the late 1800's when they went to far fewer years of school, than they are today.
@givebirthathome Yeah, there's a documentary called "The War on Kids" about the crumbling and militarization of the public education system. The studies show that homework is essentially useless, all testing does is create anxiety and complex-disorders, and that cops parading around schools with sub-machineguns to inspire irrational attitudes toward submission to authorities in children is not helping anything. On top of child-subscriptions of psychoactive drugs and chemicals in food/drink.
Unless we're doing something other than little comments on youtube, then we've been indoctrinated to believe either the lies that we're being told or that we have no power to make a change. Either way, we're indoctrinated. The world should know that 'Americans' are split between those who believe the lies and those who are too afraid or cynical to make a difference. Either way, the world should look elsewhere for leadership. Leadership will not come from the 'American' people.
your statement is so true. the american populace has become opiated by mass media and consumerism. they are misled by ad hominem arguments scapegoating groups such as blacks, so-called terrorists, the former soviet union, etc. many americans actually voted for "w." for a second term--despite the deception of the first election and machinations depicted in 9/11 by michael moore. these are glaring examples of the overall ignorance and backwardness of the people and culture of this country.
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Ha Ha HA !!
American sheep bleating on about freedom.
You thought you made the world safe from Fascism in WWII?
You fought on the wrong side !
Adolf declared a pre-emptive war on Poland in 1939 with arguably better evidence of a clear and present danger to his country.
You would have been better off in the long run embracing the tenets of National Socialism. At least the entire world wouldn't be able to accuse you of being hypocrits.
I had to read Fahrenheit 451 when I was a freshmen in high school. Not the same as 1984 but still has a lot of similar themes regarding a government with extreme power. I loved it, of course I already had an interest in history/philisophy/politics... most of the other kids in the class hated it, didn't read it, or didn't understand it. Plus the teacher wasn't good at sparking debates.
I strongly believe philisophy/Ethics should be mandatory classes as early as middle school.
@Champlaain "I strongly believe philisophy/Ethics should be mandatory classes as early as middle school." I wish that would happen...but the natural course is for humans to be controlled from the top down. We need that because studies, as well as common sense, show that decision making breaks down in groups larger than 6 people. All we can do is talk to each other and help each other, but don't expect to ever see a world were the bottom makes and enforces the rules.
@thatentrenchingtool I think this was the book I first read it in: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud. I was able to find the study the book referred to on the internet but I have no idea where anymore. Please let me know if you ever find it as I would like to save it next time it get it. Please don't take my post the wrong way though. I'm a borderline anarchist; I feel that it is worthwhile to discipline corrupt power. Good luck!
@tstruss912 Thanks for the reply! I will let you know if I find it! Groups of six, curious. I wonder if it holds for various kinds of team/group work.
@tstruss912 "but don't expect to ever see a world were the bottom makes and enforces the rules." No because that would be Communism (And that's impossible eh?) :DDDD!!!
@Masterfootballer23 "Eh" lol. You guys really say that hehehe. That's awesome. But ya, I don't think we will ever see a world without classes, or a world where there are classes but those on bottom make the rules. I think it should be strived for, but can't happen. It is heading that way though. The latest issue of Current History, and Foreign Affairs, both tell the tale of how the world is moving away from a US dominated system. Personally I think that's a good thing. We will see...
I am afraid Mr. Chomsky may be correct about the U.S. being a very racist nation. After seeing the democratic convention results for Obama in West Virginia I can only conclude the worst, and I do think that is part of the indoctrination of the ignorant public.
I agree 100% that the United States is a very racist nation but I could care less about Obama. You want to see real racism, just go to poor ghettos or better yet, go to Universities. You'll see plenty of the such here.
Every populace has to demand the society that they want from their leaders. Universities here have incredible professors that recognize the disparity, like Noam himself, and others that work at Georgetown University not far from the capitol understand the problem and address it to their classes and actually influence law students into pursuing legal careers to advocate these issues. My mistake was making a blanket statement that could illicit your response.
I'm an American and I'm not racist, rascism is everywhere and in every nation. Its in the heart wherever any of us can be whether in America or elsewhere in the world
It is amazing how sheeple gobble up lies but refuse truth. Why do so many sheeple stick their heads in the sand and pretend there is nothing they can do? Wake up and pay attention! Even if you don't agree with Chomsky then pay attention enough so that you can understand and articulate intelligently why you don't agree. American's are under the false illusion that the world is their "oyster" it will be a sad day when the majority of the sheep wake up to discover the oyster has been polluted.
hehe geez you're REAL optimistic for the future. i read '1984' when i was like, 13, and i didn't understand anything - i was just kinda disturbed. i "got it" years later. exposure's enough sometimes, right? americans lack even simple exposure - we don't even get the chance of seeing something different then disagreeing, we tend to disagree bc they're 'anti-american' according to bush & co.
The last minute of this video should be aired over and over again on every major network for 4 years. Shut down the government, the media, industry and the military and just watch and listen to what Chomsky says for the length of an entire presidency. Then maybe we can start to interact with the rest of the world.
you know, the facts and opinion that noam chomsky regularly gives in talks and in his books are shared by the vast majority of the rest of the world. either america is so divinely good that we can see what others can't, or we're all our society is fucking stupid. which do you think it is? why do you think there's that term 'stupid americans' used universally in other countries? jealousy? hate of our freedom? geez, the american revolution was an inspiration for the world. cna't be that.
if we are as good as we say we are, people will recognize it on their own without us telling them, and they'll copy us. lots of former colonies in s. america, asia, and africa followed the lead of america and overthrew european powers. we didn't have to tell them we're great. they followed our lead from watching us. why have they stopped?
if you're going to criticize chomsky's assertions, then show they're wrong, don't just say 'i thiknk he's stupid and wrong.' that's not an argument.
what's especially telling about people like you and other idiots in the media and scholarship, is that they never take his sources and the bibliographies in his books and systematically show that they're wrong or used falsely. it's always 'noam is stupid' or some other attack on his character. attack his arguments if you want to undermine him. he gives arguments and sources to back them up. attack his arguments with logic and CREDIBLE sources, not opinion and vilification.
Chomsky deftly mixes opinion, loosely reported facts and hazy memories in such a way that listeners believe they've witnessed a revelation, when in fact, they've just been propagandized with their own opinions.
Fact, opinion, and observation can be mixed together without it being sinister. Using general knowledge and observation to draw conclusions is a natural process of human thought. You are not in any way descriptive or insightful with this comment, though it is intended to sound that way.
No, you had just restated the obvious with some pejoratives mixed in, and it is clear what you did. Pointing that out is not opinion. Perhaps your inability to distinguish between reality and perception is what makes it so hard for you to consider actual arguments without thinking everyone is a dark magician out to hypnotize you with words.
Yeah, quoting Human Rights Watch is pretty shady. Those facts are WAY too loosely reported! Better get some tight reporting in here... where are Katie Couric and Brian Williams when ya need 'em?
jesus...can't we have civilized discourse w/o cursing? war against drugs/crime. invalid. i've walked the streets of south central, east palo alto (where the bloods originated) and oakland, and i've been left alone. the media really distorts reality on the ground in places where police are 'fighting crime.' not to say that crime doesn't happen, but there aren't inherently evil people on the other side, nor is there an 'other side'
You still didn't answer my questions.. You want to call names but not answer questions. Name an incident when a "Conspiracy Theorist" did something to bring this country down? Besides GW Bush and his theory on the war on terror?
It's obvious that you don't know what you are talking about. Simply take a look at whats going on in this country, things are NOT good. How do you bring Democracy by the barrel of a gun? How do you liberate a ppl and impose genocide on the very ppl you are trying to liberate? How many civilian Iraqis have died? If that shit was happening here in America what would happen? What would be ur view then?
Yes. That would be excellent. Historical.Too good to be truth. But Majoroity of Americans do not like truth - they rather choose hipocricy and BUllSHit artists ;D I'm helping Kucinich -he is true American.
Typical jerk-off; people like you are why Abortions are Legal. You don't even have it in you to TRY to understand the other sides of living situations in America. You are very close-minded and brain-washed.
well...i think i could say the same about you, man. but...look, i'm not really 'liberal' or 'conservative,' though i have beliefs from both. i'm a californian who thinks abortions are wrong, but i don't quite think they should be outlawed. but you're right in saying that 'liberals' have a blindspot in that they don't acknowledge that killing babies is wrong. but...it's the woman's body too, you know. that, we shouldn't ignore either.
Indeed, I am in total agreement with you there.. It's a delicate issue no matter what stance you take. I wish our society was more "child friendly" then we wouldn't have to worry about unwanted babies. If only we TRULY lived by the old African proverb, "It Takes A Village To Raise A Child". My bad if I came off hostile.
yeah which is why i said after reading your other comments 'whoops.' i thought you were another one of those, you know, cursing, gramatically-challenged ignoramuses on here. but yeah, i think you are onto the fact that our american society totally indoctrinates the citezens, or should i say more accurately, subjects.
get people to stop watching cnn, fox, msnbc, abc, and all that other crap. make '1984' by george orwell required reading in high school if not middle school.
also, get everyone to read 'lies my teacher told me' by james loewen, which does a lot combating general govt/society-induced ignorance, like it did for me.
awareness breeds action, like it did for vietnam and other bad stuff our govt did. so awareness is enough i think.
The guilty always want to play the stupid, I don't know what the hell is going on, role.. You sit on your ass and expect the truth to come knocking on your door.. Get up and see what's going on in the communities you ignore yet criticize, ya punk-ass.
Obviously, ass-hole, you aren't old enough to know better otherwise you would've known to NOT fight for a country with a history like the U.S.A. As far as being an armchair liberal, I am very active in my community as well as others. I keep good hearted ppl from becoming a thug by enlisting in the biggest gang in the world.. The United States Armed Forces! Oh yea, Micheal Moore is a good man.
Actually if I didn't serve in the military then my opinion isn't swayed towards being a patriot or the ladder. I'm coming from a common-sense point of view where as you are totally brainwashed. Your military experience is invalid. There's a war going on in every major city in america and law enforcement is losing, so wake up.
U must be a very sheltered individual because most ppl in this country do not live that way. The Middle class is being eliminated and the underclass is growing at a very high rate yet you actually believe that the American economy is improving. What city/suburb do you reside in?
Typical response.. You and those like you never answer the questions presented to them. The average american isn't living a luxurious lifestyle, most are just trying to get by. How is that progress? You simply have no clue.
Also, the various communities within this country are separate an NOT EQUAL, so how are the residents of those communities able to attain valuable skills that the market is looking for if they don't have the resources to provide them? Bush has done nothing to change this but can provide substantional financial aid for his private war. GW = Moron, and Im being nice about it.
Let me make myself clear.. I am not advocating attacking N. Korea. I sincerely feel that the Bush Admin. attacked Iraq for OIL, they attacked a country that was never a threat to the U.S., to me that's being a coward and a bully. Plus they lied in order to rationalize an attack on a soverign country, that's pure evil.
low unemployment? Not where I'm at! Great salaries? Not where I'm at! The 9/11 attack happened after your boy George was elected into office, and then he goes to Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which were no threat to the U.S. U.S. isn't kicking butt all over the world; they didn't even do anything to N. Korea. G.W. jr is a moron like the rest of his family.
LMAO!!! ARe u Serious?? G.W. Bush jr. is going down in history as the WORST president ever! He's a functional illiterate.. You can't be serious.. Whatever combination of drugs you took before you posted that comment, please do not take them anymore.
rockbysea, Noam Chomsky was smarter than you when he was 10 years old. He has contributed to modern linguistics (look it up)as a scholar long before he entered the foreign policy realm. He sees through the crap and speaks truth to power but he is not arrogant and listens to other points of view. We actually corresponded via email for months.
I don't think people are that much frighting by terrorists and even less Saddam, is just that as long he's officially declared public enemy you start to hate him because is official, the media talks about it, the movies and or shows say he's mean and pathetic and you automatically hate him because now society does so why wouldn't you.
...thanks for your comment on my video... noam chomsky is one of the most important people talking about the truth... if only half of the country would begin to attempt to accept the truths he tells...
How do u figure, just becuz he says he's not? I believe actions speak louder than words, and his lies, cover-ups (both before and after 9/11) and his ridiculas following of uber-christians that believe gays r going to hell r all anarchist in my book becuz all that leads to dishormony and dischorus in society.
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Chomsky for President
bluegreen1138 4 months ago 3
Well, Noam, I was with you up until you mentioned Willie Horton. The fact of the matter is race is a huge problem in this country and white voters have every reason to be afraid of black criminals. Whether or not this fear gives certain political elements more power or not does not change that fact.
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you gentiles are Pathetic Always take some jew and make him god or Messiah just like the jesus and kerl marx and know this noam chomsky did you ever wondering why is this all your biggst gods and messiah and your intellectuals from right and left are jewish and you wonder how we the jews call are self the chosen people dont diss this
comment in 100 yreas from know your kids will things that holly histroy just like your Fathers Though't even the arebs belive in a jewish idea of god
ehudnold9 5 months ago
Humans are the only animals that consciously use logic to heighten survival, contrary to other animals like insects which are uncounsciously affected by evolution, humans can speed up chances of survival by rational thinking.
noprofitmaximierung 6 months ago
fear makes people move.
zillaje 6 months ago
Honestly, I don't think that you need to scare conservatives to get them to follow you; all you need to do is pretend to care about their values and then start barking orders. I think this fear based crap is meant to get moderates behind the plan.
tstruss912 6 months ago 5
the editing totally sucks. it's engineered for add 20 year olds.
jasonatramwoolscom 7 months ago
I think he exaggerates a lot order to fit the factors into his theory. That however doesn't mean that there are some (majority) elements of truth in his speech.
Idosander 8 months ago
@Idosander I think you exaggerate everything you say and I'm not going to justify saying it, either. You just do.
jacksawild 7 months ago
I'm so glad that we have the internet and sites like YouTube where anyone can access imperative information such as this. Things can only get better from here.
SwordInAir 8 months ago 2
It is such a pity that Noam is so unique and there are so few people with his level of consciousness and humanity in the USA
zharkoo 9 months ago 3
@zharkoo George Carlin was too. I miss him :(
Zooligable 9 months ago
@zharkoo ...in the world. I don't see anyone else like him.
donnyforte2 9 months ago 2
once upon a time, americans decided they didnt need kings, for they believed that free men should only bow to god.. and they took action..all americans did this, because those that didnt, considered themselves brits..well, soon enough, the old ugly ass head of tyranny crept back in...and low and behold, americans soon forgot that they were once free, until the southern states decided enough was enough.. but lincoln led the union in crushing freedom once again, so here we are, still ruled by evil
longfootbuddy 10 months ago
@longfootbuddy The south was complete and utter shit, don't blow your own horn as no one gives a shit since the bugle boy got eaten by the Big Bad wolf; Hell the bugle boy was the boy who cried wolf.
Sileni 9 months ago
@Sileni youre a fool
longfootbuddy 9 months ago
@Sileni I love you too sweet-heart, but not as more than Noam Chomsky. God he is THE MAN!
Sileni 9 months ago 2
thats what my thoughts were when Americans Invaded Iraq.
0515524847 10 months ago
From 9:00 onwards. He truly is a learned man, he can see through things which the masses can't.
Yeppox 10 months ago
fear is a mind-killer ... and all governments are taking advantage of this in order to push their unrealistic policies and theories .... but us 'the public' have to deal with the consequence of their actions.... its a shame he is old, he would have made a great president !!
xoxoKaiyaxoxo 11 months ago
show me a "911 truth" video that explains to me why exactly Khalid Sheikh Mohammad has admitted to be the mastermind off the attack...?..
hailtotheking324 1 year ago
yo noam, what happened on 9.11.2001? what? cat caught your tongue? typical.
911reset 1 year ago
@911reset Another False Flag op by the US. Do you think it served the Administration? Totally. Read your history. This is one of many.
pvisserandorra 1 year ago
@pvisserandorra
that's not what noam said about 9/11. check again.
911reset 1 year ago
@911reset I wrote 3 sentences. Can you show me where I made a reference to Noam? I didn't think so.
pvisserandorra 1 year ago
@pvisserandorra
yeah, well... the fact is that noam was all dickish when it came to 9/11. sure, he can talk about "massive successful media campaign" till the end of time, sure. ask him about certain details? sheesh. it's like
listening to james meigs or mccain. so, i dunno what yer problem is, missy... noam acted like a dick
when asked about 9/11 and that's that. as chinodumbasses said "why worry"? we have it all figured out.
go back to sleep.
911reset 1 year ago
@911reset Look at the options market on the airlines involved. 400% increase shorting the day before. Obviously no one knew anything. Maybe you slept through that part.
pvisserandorra 1 year ago
@911reset: See another video of his to see his response.
In short, he does not believe it was an in-house conspiracy. But he does find our armed forces unacceptably slow to react, which might've been intentional.
chinopisces 1 year ago
@chinopisces
i have. and sorry to break it to you - noam lied about 9/11. sad, but true. his choice. don't worry.
911reset 1 year ago
@911reset: And why the fuck should I give a damn about what you think? Why worry? Your kind will fizzle out eventually, having wasted your energies for ultimately nothing.
chinopisces 1 year ago
@chinopisces lol. the only thing thats going to "fizzle out" are poor ol' noam's brains. and his credibility. don't worry.
911reset 1 year ago
Why is he not known throughout America? -_-
Darkdude1122 1 year ago
@Darkdude1122
because challenging the powers-that-be is a surefire way to be marginalized by the powers-that-be.
also, most of chomsky's observations require a basic knowledge of history, politics, and current events, which the american education system doesn't really heap on in droves...
abandonedvideos 1 year ago
exceptional jew
hmit82 1 year ago
His last question has a third answer, that we're both racist and deeply indoctrinated.
hrmIwonder 1 year ago
his logic is outstanding.
themovingsand 1 year ago 2
legalize marijuana
samberry9502 1 year ago 3
What Chomsky spoke about, he said is nothing new... they've been doing it since the 80's. But its even older than that. Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays (then, world's foremost professional mental conniver) convinced Americans whom had recently defeated the extremely formidably competent, industrialized, 1st world nations of Germany & Japan, that the impoverished, 3rd world, politically unstable, central American country of Guatemala were going to kill us with bananas. Thus the corporate oligarchy
Chuichupachichi 1 year ago
already then, having the US military at its disposal, sent them to disarm the dangerous Guatemalans of their nuclear bananas. After which, America's righteous arms dealers sold the deadly bananas to ally nations on the international arms market. The US founders were indeed Christians & Washington advised that we should neither get too intimately friendly with foreign nations, nor use our strength to impose upon our neighbors. But rather, be good to them. Our 1913 infiltrator, oligarch, Marxist,
Chuichupachichi 1 year ago
authoritarian rulers have subversively manipulated, influenced, deceived, bribed & strong armed many from amongst all Americans & have even spoiled the Leftists rotten with victim's entitlements in order to gain American's endorsement or simply the indifferently dismissive power enough to steer America into committing both things that G. Washington warned against. Not to mention, many other evils has America done... against ourselves & others
Chuichupachichi 1 year ago
The best combination of philosophical genius and comedy. All at the same time.
I'm 17 and I barely became interested in this field. This guy and many others have me intrigued to keep ignorance at bay.
jesse5852 1 year ago 9
@jesse5852 I can as always recommend that you get a copy of Platos works, "The republic" "Apology" and "Phaedo"
Tyrfingr 1 year ago
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mmmm12134 1 year ago
I wish Noam Chomsky could live another hundred years.
outnout1 1 year ago
GO CHOMSKY!
AllOtherNamesTaken2 1 year ago 3
The Noamster !
Dude is a marketing genius.
I know dozens of sentimental dipshit Lefties who dutifully buy everything he publishes.
alphecca2539 1 year ago
@alphecca2539 .... may be also people buy what he publishes because he is a genius who knows what he is talking about.
MariaLaStone 1 year ago
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Now, Chomsky, do I turn to thee, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. Thou art a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago
lets scrap the fed and make a new one with limited powers, like the founding fathers intended
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
Brilliant as always and supringly histerical xD I love you Noam
gia2black 1 year ago
Grenada was invaded a few days after the Marine bombing in Beirut, one Hezbollah suicide bomber drove Reagan and his Marines out of Lebanon. So Granada got thumped to make Reagan and his Marines feel better. Check it on Wiki.
geezzerboy 1 year ago
0:12 what the heck does he do there? It's not a word, it's just a weird noise and gesture. I'm so confused right now.
mendali 2 years ago
@mendali i think he was just searching for the words he wanted to use.
shutemdwn 1 year ago
Yeah probably
mendali 1 year ago
funny comment - I guess it was just a "chomskyism" :)
jgarzilli 1 year ago
I wonder what American politics would be if economic problems were actually discussed in elections. I bet we would have almost social democratic or even farther left policies. Obama would be a republican.
rring88 2 years ago 3
And, as he says at the end."Its population is so completely indoctrinated"
Anyone ? Anyone?
ANTIDALLARD 2 years ago 2
Why does Prof Chomskey refer to America as the "most free country in the world".How can a country be the free est, if its press is one of the weakest in the western world.And when its Political class seems to be completely impotent ?
ANTIDALLARD 2 years ago
@ANTIDALLARD He means personal freedoms. Most advanced capitalist states require this illusion of personal freedom so they can control the media and government. It doesn't matter if you're not free, all that matters to them is that you continue to believe that you are
Dakatt1 2 years ago
Political class impotent? Hardly. They're getting everything they want.
doston1 2 years ago
this is rubbish.the only way to stop the wars is to go to joemainstreet(a way to end the war) on youtube to help start a real movement by not paying your credit cards and getting your bumper sticker in circulation to let the nation know.
joemainstreet 2 years ago
很好的影片!
qazw213 2 years ago
There is going to be a part of the population that just remains ignorant to literally every piece of news that's released.
mrcarlos15 2 years ago 34
@mrcarlos15 yes... but isnt that the part who arent indoctrianted?
huwgojones 1 year ago
@mrcarlos15 No one should believe the media really.
rocktohell 1 year ago
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Go watch 9/11/01 tapes you dumb fuck, now imagine yourself in one of those buildings, in your final moments before being crushed to death. That's fear, you animal. It's too bad you weren't one of the dead.
MazeleyFanClub 2 years ago
The war in Iraq has only increased terrorism. So preemption or prevention doesn't work as an excuse.
You really missed the whole point.
paganiniGOGO 2 years ago
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It's too bad that yourself, and anyone genetically closely related to you weren't inside one of the towers.
elsamuraiguapo 2 years ago
I think the whole clip is true. Chomsky gives an example of pure logic thinking.
BigBrotherIsHere01 2 years ago
While this clip was full of great stuff, I'd have to say my favorite was when he mentioned that no other country, not even the ones bordering Iraq believed that they were responsible for the 911 attacks.
Truly logical. We need more people like this guy.
ErichoTTA 2 years ago
I hope everyone is listening to this fine professor.
OPTIMISM is to TRIUMPHS but a precious few with influence and the Word of GLORY what is Mercy and Hope.
SAT9terminus 3 years ago
The nuke always come back, like the number 8, it will return for all these things.
jimbonumber9 3 years ago
Chomsky could further cynically point out the irony that Grenada was a country created by the US during the US Civil War. A construct for intellectualised free black men that no longer wanted to live in the US and that refused the other option of going to Liberia. Yet, another disastrous construct.
KwautLizard 3 years ago
I am also surprised he didn't mention Lebanon, which is fertile material from the wonderfully rich comedy goldmine of the Reagan era. I am amazed that so many people think Reagan was either conservative or a good president, and so many still consider him one of the best, haha. Those same people ironically tend to denounce Bush the Younger, which indicates further delusion, or at least pathalogical dishonesty.
VariedInterest 2 years ago
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khattamshud 3 years ago
This man has excellent insight but I am bothered that he feels we are ALL indoctrinated. Those against these waars and propaganda get absolutely no air time because of any influence they might have. More are becoming afraid of their own government (not others) believing any kind of ball dropping (made to look like "someone else did it") isnt true at all given its past history.
Please know that Americans are split between those who believe what they hear and those who do not
KARStarla 3 years ago
He is obviously terribly disappointed that he is not witnessing the outward aggression towards the government that he lived through in the sixties. He is despondent towards a lack of revolutionary zeal that was so present when he became famous and recognised. I think in that sense he is seeing all peoples are indoctrinated, in lieu of the status quo which we clearly do not belong to, as the more utopian society he envisions becomes less and less likely. A thought.
KwautLizard 3 years ago
I agree with your comment except that the society we want is not becoming less and less likely. That sentiment/thinking is what frustrates Chomsky and me. It is becoming more likely and in fact, would already be the case if less people thought they were powerless or if less people 'surrendered' to such cynicism.
Arondeus 3 years ago 2
I like your optimism and I hope you are right. I am very vocal about personal/cultural awareness and have never abandoned my questioning of absolute authority for want of a better world. Chomsky's frustration presumably stems from his want to see it in his lifetime. I live by preference in one of the last communist countries on earth, albeit more capitalist than America, and feel that I have affected change. It only takes a few but steadfastly determined people. Thanks. After the revolution!
KwautLizard 3 years ago
Thank you! The internet will be the death of totalitarianism, because millions of ideas are flying across the globe every second of the day. True freedom for all Humanity will come. In the meantime, you're right, it begins with a "few but steadfastly determined people." Peace, Comrade!!
Arondeus 3 years ago
One of my fears is that Forums like You-Tube will be used like the "Flowers" Campaign in China where contending thoughts ultimately were used to prosecute those trusting enough to speak freely.
moob744 2 years ago
Exactly.
950horsepower 2 years ago
Ralph Nader said the internet hasn't helped mobilize people.
People are too distracted watching youtube videos and not videos like these.
paganiniGOGO 2 years ago
If only youtube's featured videos were chosen among those that really matter, such as this one.
creepiestdani 2 years ago 34
You're, but then again, if that were the case, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in here in the states.
YouTube, and the internet in general, are good reflections of where the interests of most Americans lie. They couldn't care less about this stuff, they'd rather watch a video of some self-important little teenage attention-whore doing something stupid, or find out what their favorite celeb is up to.
Probably why they're all so gullible and easily manipulate/scared by the right-wing.
elsamuraiguapo 2 years ago 2
elso muracrapo your the one who is un-educated. about the west. your talking about teens and twenty somethings ,they dont run the country ,and rarely vote ,unless there brainwashed to vote for obama ,you have no idea of the mind set of the average american.
rugerman3114 2 years ago
@creepiestdani If only all the advertising space was used to send messages that mattered.
frade001 9 months ago
It's easy to think that if you're a cynic, but it's also easy enough to know that anyone smart and worthwhile enough will also watch videos like this. Stupid people have been around forever.
toReasonWhy 2 years ago
Stupid people have been around forever, but proportions matter, and they do change. Read the beginning of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Also John Taylor Gatto's An Underground History of American Education. Americans were actually far better educated in the late 1800's when they went to far fewer years of school, than they are today.
givebirthathome 2 years ago
The Internet is the self-educating device par excellence though, so we have a chance to turn that around...
givebirthathome 2 years ago 2
We're fucked. Don't look for it.
FeelOfFriction 2 years ago
@givebirthathome Yeah, there's a documentary called "The War on Kids" about the crumbling and militarization of the public education system. The studies show that homework is essentially useless, all testing does is create anxiety and complex-disorders, and that cops parading around schools with sub-machineguns to inspire irrational attitudes toward submission to authorities in children is not helping anything. On top of child-subscriptions of psychoactive drugs and chemicals in food/drink.
Bodhidharma1986 1 year ago
@Bodhidharma1986 Thank your traitorous Donk politicians for the disasters we have in education.
alphecca2539 1 year ago
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uBeR10 2 years ago
yeah, I said videos not like these, no wonder you were spammed.
paganiniGOGO 2 years ago
Unless we're doing something other than little comments on youtube, then we've been indoctrinated to believe either the lies that we're being told or that we have no power to make a change. Either way, we're indoctrinated. The world should know that 'Americans' are split between those who believe the lies and those who are too afraid or cynical to make a difference. Either way, the world should look elsewhere for leadership. Leadership will not come from the 'American' people.
Arondeus 3 years ago
your statement is so true. the american populace has become opiated by mass media and consumerism. they are misled by ad hominem arguments scapegoating groups such as blacks, so-called terrorists, the former soviet union, etc. many americans actually voted for "w." for a second term--despite the deception of the first election and machinations depicted in 9/11 by michael moore. these are glaring examples of the overall ignorance and backwardness of the people and culture of this country.
salahudeen1962 2 years ago
Why would someone think that Chomsky thinks that "all Americans" are indoctrinated? He never said that.
pandurate 3 years ago
Why would I think he said at 9:35 about "the country" (ie Americans in America) being so indoctrinated?
Its called paraphrasing, I just specified which country he was talking about in context
KARStarla 3 years ago
Not all Americans believe what they are told by the media infact many have been exposing this and are become laughing stocks because we dont.
KARStarla 3 years ago
Do something about it. (Assuming you're not.) If you are, then disregard and thanks for your efforts!
Arondeus 3 years ago
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Noam Chomsky is a gov't agent.He has been since the 1970s.
He wouldn't be working for MIT, the hottest of the gov't hot houses for research, for 1/2 century if he wasn't.
Look into Neuro-Linguistic Programming, based on his work, and see how it's been used in mind control as in Project Jedi.
He's no friend of Anarchists.
D2
SilverRedIndigo 3 years ago
"Noam Chomsky is a gov't agent."
What agency? What has his covert mission been? Present your evidence.
"He wouldn't be working for MIT for 1/2 century if he wasn't."
By this logic, a janitor at Lockheed Martin is directly responsible for the victims of the weapons his employers make.
"Look into Neuro-Linguistic Programming, based on his work,"
One does have control over what others do with one's work.
"He's no friend of Anarchists."
I would say he's no friend of Nihilists.
MshrF 3 years ago
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You know very well that I cannot provide that information w/t compromising the source, which I will not.
Your second comment is logical fallacy. I suggest you consult a list of logical fallacies and commit it to memory.
I further suggest that you learn who and what Nihilists are.
And knock of the pseudo-intellectual routine unless you wish to take up stand up.
D2
SilverRedIndigo 3 years ago
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Ha Ha HA !!
American sheep bleating on about freedom.
You thought you made the world safe from Fascism in WWII?
You fought on the wrong side !
Adolf declared a pre-emptive war on Poland in 1939 with arguably better evidence of a clear and present danger to his country.
You would have been better off in the long run embracing the tenets of National Socialism. At least the entire world wouldn't be able to accuse you of being hypocrits.
Democracy is dead, Heil Obama !
commiescum88 3 years ago
You are so funny commiescum88.
I don't think you mean to be, I think you are just stupid.
bwfc1975 3 years ago
I had to read Fahrenheit 451 when I was a freshmen in high school. Not the same as 1984 but still has a lot of similar themes regarding a government with extreme power. I loved it, of course I already had an interest in history/philisophy/politics... most of the other kids in the class hated it, didn't read it, or didn't understand it. Plus the teacher wasn't good at sparking debates.
I strongly believe philisophy/Ethics should be mandatory classes as early as middle school.
Champlaain 3 years ago 36
@Champlaain I strongly agree
blitzel3 1 year ago
@Champlaain "I strongly believe philisophy/Ethics should be mandatory classes as early as middle school." I wish that would happen...but the natural course is for humans to be controlled from the top down. We need that because studies, as well as common sense, show that decision making breaks down in groups larger than 6 people. All we can do is talk to each other and help each other, but don't expect to ever see a world were the bottom makes and enforces the rules.
tstruss912 1 year ago
@tstruss912 Interesting!!! I'd like to see those studies! Can you suggest any leads/search terms/authors/etc?
thatentrenchingtool 1 year ago
@thatentrenchingtool I think this was the book I first read it in: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud. I was able to find the study the book referred to on the internet but I have no idea where anymore. Please let me know if you ever find it as I would like to save it next time it get it. Please don't take my post the wrong way though. I'm a borderline anarchist; I feel that it is worthwhile to discipline corrupt power. Good luck!
tstruss912 1 year ago
@tstruss912 Thanks for the reply! I will let you know if I find it! Groups of six, curious. I wonder if it holds for various kinds of team/group work.
thatentrenchingtool 1 year ago
@tstruss912 "but don't expect to ever see a world were the bottom makes and enforces the rules." No because that would be Communism (And that's impossible eh?) :DDDD!!!
Masterfootballer23 1 year ago
@Masterfootballer23 "Eh" lol. You guys really say that hehehe. That's awesome. But ya, I don't think we will ever see a world without classes, or a world where there are classes but those on bottom make the rules. I think it should be strived for, but can't happen. It is heading that way though. The latest issue of Current History, and Foreign Affairs, both tell the tale of how the world is moving away from a US dominated system. Personally I think that's a good thing. We will see...
tstruss912 1 year ago
@tstruss912 European Union Buddy ;)
Masterfootballer23 1 year ago
Chomsky did some stand-up in the beginning.
KamratMattis 3 years ago 2
I am afraid Mr. Chomsky may be correct about the U.S. being a very racist nation. After seeing the democratic convention results for Obama in West Virginia I can only conclude the worst, and I do think that is part of the indoctrination of the ignorant public.
jdrizd2 3 years ago
I agree 100% that the United States is a very racist nation but I could care less about Obama. You want to see real racism, just go to poor ghettos or better yet, go to Universities. You'll see plenty of the such here.
bootleg42 3 years ago
Every populace has to demand the society that they want from their leaders. Universities here have incredible professors that recognize the disparity, like Noam himself, and others that work at Georgetown University not far from the capitol understand the problem and address it to their classes and actually influence law students into pursuing legal careers to advocate these issues. My mistake was making a blanket statement that could illicit your response.
jdrizd2 3 years ago
I'm an American and I'm not racist, rascism is everywhere and in every nation. Its in the heart wherever any of us can be whether in America or elsewhere in the world
KARStarla 3 years ago
It is amazing how sheeple gobble up lies but refuse truth. Why do so many sheeple stick their heads in the sand and pretend there is nothing they can do? Wake up and pay attention! Even if you don't agree with Chomsky then pay attention enough so that you can understand and articulate intelligently why you don't agree. American's are under the false illusion that the world is their "oyster" it will be a sad day when the majority of the sheep wake up to discover the oyster has been polluted.
RosesSs2008 3 years ago 8
hehe geez you're REAL optimistic for the future. i read '1984' when i was like, 13, and i didn't understand anything - i was just kinda disturbed. i "got it" years later. exposure's enough sometimes, right? americans lack even simple exposure - we don't even get the chance of seeing something different then disagreeing, we tend to disagree bc they're 'anti-american' according to bush & co.
boing3887 3 years ago
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People are growing like grass! Most folks never learn to live peacefully and are wicked.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
It is good for large population to grow, so God may destroy many people and save some.
stringanime 3 years ago
The last minute of this video should be aired over and over again on every major network for 4 years. Shut down the government, the media, industry and the military and just watch and listen to what Chomsky says for the length of an entire presidency. Then maybe we can start to interact with the rest of the world.
Bunny456 3 years ago 4
If you say so.
dhines611 3 years ago
Yep! I do!
Your subservience and unquestioning faith is appreciated. :D
sevenslimysnails 3 years ago
you know, the facts and opinion that noam chomsky regularly gives in talks and in his books are shared by the vast majority of the rest of the world. either america is so divinely good that we can see what others can't, or we're all our society is fucking stupid. which do you think it is? why do you think there's that term 'stupid americans' used universally in other countries? jealousy? hate of our freedom? geez, the american revolution was an inspiration for the world. cna't be that.
boing3887 3 years ago
if we are as good as we say we are, people will recognize it on their own without us telling them, and they'll copy us. lots of former colonies in s. america, asia, and africa followed the lead of america and overthrew european powers. we didn't have to tell them we're great. they followed our lead from watching us. why have they stopped?
if you're going to criticize chomsky's assertions, then show they're wrong, don't just say 'i thiknk he's stupid and wrong.' that's not an argument.
boing3887 3 years ago
what's especially telling about people like you and other idiots in the media and scholarship, is that they never take his sources and the bibliographies in his books and systematically show that they're wrong or used falsely. it's always 'noam is stupid' or some other attack on his character. attack his arguments if you want to undermine him. he gives arguments and sources to back them up. attack his arguments with logic and CREDIBLE sources, not opinion and vilification.
boing3887 3 years ago 2
Chomsky deftly mixes opinion, loosely reported facts and hazy memories in such a way that listeners believe they've witnessed a revelation, when in fact, they've just been propagandized with their own opinions.
dhines611 3 years ago
Fact, opinion, and observation can be mixed together without it being sinister. Using general knowledge and observation to draw conclusions is a natural process of human thought. You are not in any way descriptive or insightful with this comment, though it is intended to sound that way.
sevenslimysnails 3 years ago
Thanks for your opinion.
dhines611 3 years ago
No, you had just restated the obvious with some pejoratives mixed in, and it is clear what you did. Pointing that out is not opinion. Perhaps your inability to distinguish between reality and perception is what makes it so hard for you to consider actual arguments without thinking everyone is a dark magician out to hypnotize you with words.
sevenslimysnails 3 years ago
Yeah, quoting Human Rights Watch is pretty shady. Those facts are WAY too loosely reported! Better get some tight reporting in here... where are Katie Couric and Brian Williams when ya need 'em?
Necrovore666 3 years ago
jesus...can't we have civilized discourse w/o cursing? war against drugs/crime. invalid. i've walked the streets of south central, east palo alto (where the bloods originated) and oakland, and i've been left alone. the media really distorts reality on the ground in places where police are 'fighting crime.' not to say that crime doesn't happen, but there aren't inherently evil people on the other side, nor is there an 'other side'
boing3887 3 years ago
Ron Paul Freedom March on Washington D.C 2008!
CorollaKing 4 years ago
You still didn't answer my questions.. You want to call names but not answer questions. Name an incident when a "Conspiracy Theorist" did something to bring this country down? Besides GW Bush and his theory on the war on terror?
quran777 4 years ago
It's obvious that you don't know what you are talking about. Simply take a look at whats going on in this country, things are NOT good. How do you bring Democracy by the barrel of a gun? How do you liberate a ppl and impose genocide on the very ppl you are trying to liberate? How many civilian Iraqis have died? If that shit was happening here in America what would happen? What would be ur view then?
quran777 4 years ago 2
whoops, i've misunderstood you.
boing3887 3 years ago
boiong3887,
No problem bro. : )
quran777 3 years ago
chomski should be president
seesnap 4 years ago 4
Yes. That would be excellent. Historical.Too good to be truth. But Majoroity of Americans do not like truth - they rather choose hipocricy and BUllSHit artists ;D I'm helping Kucinich -he is true American.
wwwPNACATTACKcom 4 years ago 3
Typical jerk-off; people like you are why Abortions are Legal. You don't even have it in you to TRY to understand the other sides of living situations in America. You are very close-minded and brain-washed.
quran777 4 years ago
well...i think i could say the same about you, man. but...look, i'm not really 'liberal' or 'conservative,' though i have beliefs from both. i'm a californian who thinks abortions are wrong, but i don't quite think they should be outlawed. but you're right in saying that 'liberals' have a blindspot in that they don't acknowledge that killing babies is wrong. but...it's the woman's body too, you know. that, we shouldn't ignore either.
boing3887 3 years ago
Indeed, I am in total agreement with you there.. It's a delicate issue no matter what stance you take. I wish our society was more "child friendly" then we wouldn't have to worry about unwanted babies. If only we TRULY lived by the old African proverb, "It Takes A Village To Raise A Child". My bad if I came off hostile.
quran777 3 years ago
yeah which is why i said after reading your other comments 'whoops.' i thought you were another one of those, you know, cursing, gramatically-challenged ignoramuses on here. but yeah, i think you are onto the fact that our american society totally indoctrinates the citezens, or should i say more accurately, subjects.
heejoo87 3 years ago
LOL!@ "..cursing, gramatically-challenged, ignoramuses.." : )
I agree. What are your thoughts on how to resolve the issue being discussed on this posting?
quran777 3 years ago
get people to stop watching cnn, fox, msnbc, abc, and all that other crap. make '1984' by george orwell required reading in high school if not middle school.
also, get everyone to read 'lies my teacher told me' by james loewen, which does a lot combating general govt/society-induced ignorance, like it did for me.
awareness breeds action, like it did for vietnam and other bad stuff our govt did. so awareness is enough i think.
boing3887 3 years ago 4
The guilty always want to play the stupid, I don't know what the hell is going on, role.. You sit on your ass and expect the truth to come knocking on your door.. Get up and see what's going on in the communities you ignore yet criticize, ya punk-ass.
quran777 4 years ago
Obviously, ass-hole, you aren't old enough to know better otherwise you would've known to NOT fight for a country with a history like the U.S.A. As far as being an armchair liberal, I am very active in my community as well as others. I keep good hearted ppl from becoming a thug by enlisting in the biggest gang in the world.. The United States Armed Forces! Oh yea, Micheal Moore is a good man.
quran777 4 years ago
Actually if I didn't serve in the military then my opinion isn't swayed towards being a patriot or the ladder. I'm coming from a common-sense point of view where as you are totally brainwashed. Your military experience is invalid. There's a war going on in every major city in america and law enforcement is losing, so wake up.
quran777 4 years ago
NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1947
wwwPNACATTACKcom 4 years ago
U must be a very sheltered individual because most ppl in this country do not live that way. The Middle class is being eliminated and the underclass is growing at a very high rate yet you actually believe that the American economy is improving. What city/suburb do you reside in?
quran777 4 years ago
Typical response.. You and those like you never answer the questions presented to them. The average american isn't living a luxurious lifestyle, most are just trying to get by. How is that progress? You simply have no clue.
quran777 4 years ago
Also, the various communities within this country are separate an NOT EQUAL, so how are the residents of those communities able to attain valuable skills that the market is looking for if they don't have the resources to provide them? Bush has done nothing to change this but can provide substantional financial aid for his private war. GW = Moron, and Im being nice about it.
quran777 4 years ago
Let me make myself clear.. I am not advocating attacking N. Korea. I sincerely feel that the Bush Admin. attacked Iraq for OIL, they attacked a country that was never a threat to the U.S., to me that's being a coward and a bully. Plus they lied in order to rationalize an attack on a soverign country, that's pure evil.
quran777 4 years ago
low unemployment? Not where I'm at! Great salaries? Not where I'm at! The 9/11 attack happened after your boy George was elected into office, and then he goes to Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which were no threat to the U.S. U.S. isn't kicking butt all over the world; they didn't even do anything to N. Korea. G.W. jr is a moron like the rest of his family.
quran777 4 years ago
Hell No! He is not a great leader, he's a damn moron! The man can't even read. What are you talking about??? Where's your logic???
quran777 4 years ago
LMAO!!! ARe u Serious?? G.W. Bush jr. is going down in history as the WORST president ever! He's a functional illiterate.. You can't be serious.. Whatever combination of drugs you took before you posted that comment, please do not take them anymore.
quran777 4 years ago
Just like Hitler... wouldn't you make a good marine..
justsolace 4 years ago
rockbysea, Noam Chomsky was smarter than you when he was 10 years old. He has contributed to modern linguistics (look it up)as a scholar long before he entered the foreign policy realm. He sees through the crap and speaks truth to power but he is not arrogant and listens to other points of view. We actually corresponded via email for months.
reaverto 4 years ago
I don't think people are that much frighting by terrorists and even less Saddam, is just that as long he's officially declared public enemy you start to hate him because is official, the media talks about it, the movies and or shows say he's mean and pathetic and you automatically hate him because now society does so why wouldn't you.
ElPeruanoUFO 4 years ago
thank you
laliebijard 4 years ago
...thanks for your comment on my video... noam chomsky is one of the most important people talking about the truth... if only half of the country would begin to attempt to accept the truths he tells...
peterphilip 4 years ago
this guy's a moron
rockbysea 4 years ago
Funny how the wrong ppl always end up being president 99% of the time. Why didnt he ever run?
Childrenscneterh 5 years ago
Because he's an anarchist
Redcarpet01 4 years ago
Like Bush isnt.
Childrenscneterh 4 years ago
What do you mean? Bush clearly isn't an anarchist
Redcarpet01 4 years ago
How do u figure, just becuz he says he's not? I believe actions speak louder than words, and his lies, cover-ups (both before and after 9/11) and his ridiculas following of uber-christians that believe gays r going to hell r all anarchist in my book becuz all that leads to dishormony and dischorus in society.
Childrenscneterh 4 years ago
= HE is 100% NAZI. LIKE ALL REPUBLICANS WHO SUPPORT HIM + OTHER HIS'S SUPPORTERS. WAR CRIMINALS: USA IS THE 4th REICH.
wwwPNACATTACKcom 4 years ago