Noam Chomsky - Why Propaganda Works

Audio: Professor Noam Chomsky speaking on how and why propaganda works.

Additional information added by myself, regarding the attempts by the Bush adminstration to manipulate public consciousness and it's effects.

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News & Politics

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• Noam
• Chomsky
• Propaganda
• War
• Iraq
• Iran
• Hegemony
• Manipulation
• Oil

[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'.

[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 :)

[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.

[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.

[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?

[missingt00th]

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

[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. 

[silverakisame]

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

[violetdays]

@iwiwla22 I agree 100% well said.

[cf40409]

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

[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.