Noam Chomsky - Propaganda and Control of The Public Mind Part 1 of 7

This lecture, and the question and-answer session that follows, provide and introduction to (and synthesis of) Chomsky's key thinking on the media and propaganda, and their pivotal role in the relentless class struggle being waged daily.Recorded live at The Harvard Trade Union Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 7, 1997

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[barugna]

I cannot believe that only 3,311 people have watched this video. What is wrong with Americans?

[JosephDownie]

@barugna not just Americans, the world, but I agree it is shocking.

[GanzLONDON]

@JosephDownie don't forget that the video is in ENGLISH and is not everyone around the WORLD that speaks it.

[JosephDownie]

@GanzLONDON A fair point.

[aau04372]

does anyone know when/where this talk was given?

[JosephDownie]

Recorded live at The Harvard Trade Union Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 7, 1997.

[catbuffalo]

@barugna

Here we are a year later...... people are getting the news

[s0673451]

@barugna then YOU've got to be proactive about it. Post it to your facebook, show it to your friends, submit it to reddit, etc.

[NicKingPapiChulo]

@chinopisces yes its mandarin since china makes up like 1/5 of the world population so it is mostly spoken in china but english is the most spoken when it comes to communication between people from different origins & i think its the language that lumps together the most countries

[renzob100]

Dudes, English has more total speakers on the planet than ANY OTHER LANGUAGE. This does not address which of those speakers are NATIVE or second or third level speakers. In fact, Mandarin has only about 500 million speakers....

[GanzLONDON]

@renzob100 English is imposed too. Hollywood, the Music Industry SHOVE down our throats MUSIC and MOVIES in ENGLISH only.

For all I care ESPERANTO should be MANDATORY in the whole WORLD as a second language !

Spanish, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese are all great languages.

But internationaly should be ESPERANTO !

But as long as there is inequality doesn't much matter. We are far from civilization still !

[renzob100]

@GanzLONDON English is (arguably) between first and third in number of speakers in the world. In toto, almost 2 billion (thousand millions) of people speak English on the globe. China is trying mightily to change this balance - brilliantly I might say - for example by subsidizing Mandarin native speakers going abroad (right here in River City) to teach Mandarin to grade school aged children (when children learn another language effortlessly and perfectly).

[flowerdiary]

Thank you for sharing!

Its the responsibility of all who understand the global humanitarian and environmental implications of this message to educate others.

[RiseAgainstState]

@barugna I total agree with you my friend!

[cocacola443]

@chinopisces Ahh, yes, you are correct. For some reason, I thought English had more speakers (total...not native), but it doesn't, according to most sources I can find.