NOAM CHOMSKY: Rebel without a Pause

All the subjects talked about are very relevant today. Recorded in 2003.

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[stainedglassfx]

@jscottupton The USA is a big oppressive government owned by the corporations and the banks. It is a bully in the world and helbent to destroy the planet with its form of cancer capitalism.  Socialism isn't a dirty word like the US propaganda dishes out. Individual rights aren't destroyed in a socially just world, they are however, balanced with responsibility. People who can no longer empathise with those less fortunate have lost their humanity.

[stainedglassfx]

@ytalo60s I read somewhere or heard that Noam reads at least 6 major newspapers a day and he gathers all his info from various sources, including government released official papers. Then he pieces this info together to form a whole picture. He must have a photographic or genius memory to be able to compile all that and then be able to recall it during discussions. Its a fantastic use of brain power.

[dafuzziscomin]

nice way to sneak in 1337 as the length of the video

[TheWhiteWire]

Carol has since passed away

[89cz3ko]

Love you Noam, thank you for everything you have done! RIP Carol you are just as amazing!

[RSFO]

@gamerunknown Well, hard to argue over youtube, but you are one of the few "materialists" that I find worth arguing with. But the problem with materialism is that it is inherently dualist and Cartesian, even when they reject it, because it presupposes a complete separation between matter and mind. That's dualism. To presuppose dualism as sort of "a priori" until disproven, I don't find any bit wise. And I think dualism in effect is inconsistent with conistent evolutionism.

[gamerunknown]

@RSFO

Oh elaborating on my materialist fundamentalist position, I don't even necessarily recognise the hard problem of consciousness. I hold provisionally (like Dennett) that we're cognitive zombies in spite of Chalmers' cognisant critiques of that position... Merely under the illusion of free will. I also found Sheldrake's wife website linked where it says that "Others have found that... pains,both physical and emotional [have disappeared due to chanting]" - no double blind presumably?

[gamerunknown]

@RSFO

Nope, though I do think logical positivism was an improvement over syllogism and falsifiability a further improvement on that. I don't see any real problem with materialism: I think that individual approaches can extend beyond what one has material evidence for, but to convince another without coercion one must do so on the basis of evidence (and the logical extrapolation from that evidence). Unless I'm totally missing the point? I need to do more thinking and less drinking!

[RSFO]

@gamerunknown I think Richard Dawkins is materialist fundamentalist, positivist and neo-Darwinist. I

can't stand him in fact (but perhaps we can learn from him anyway). Not that all

positivists are plain wrong, but I think his neo-Darwinism is quite wrong. I found his

"debates" with Rupert Sheldrake quite interesting. You can find it on Sheldrake's website.

Much of establishes science is yet very positivistic. Have you ever read Alfred Russel

Wallace btw?

[HammerOvThor]

@stainedglassfx Chomsky would disagree to the utmost.

[gamerunknown]

@RSFO

Well, Darwin was eventually prompted due to the popularity of Spencer's arguments to include the term "survival of the fittest" in the fifth printing of the Origin of Species. It's funny how the central dogma of organisations such as the Templeton Institute owe more to that or Rand than Christ. Blessed are the rich, for Jesus preached prosperity theology! I haven't read Bakunin, but intend to... I was introduced to evolutionary stable strategies by Dawkins.