Michael Parenti hilariously on Paradigms & Perceptions

Noted progressive author, lecturer, and professor, Dr. Michael Parenti, delivered a sharp, insightful talk on empire, perception, and representation at Antioch University in Seattle(2007). Parenti's key point in this excerpt is the process of decontextualization — and how so much of the dominant paradigm maintenance of empire occurs through a decontextualized representation that strips our perception of the current situation of its historical (and, I would add, geospatial) context.

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• Empire
• Objectivity
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• War
• Imperialism
• michael
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• chomsky
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• capitalism
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[skeetrosauce]

Only 367 views.

What the hell?

Spread the truth Parenti!

[filoulechatnoir]

great

:-)

[MichaelParentiOrg]

Thanks for uploading!!

[saalihah]

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[seigneurvoland666]

wow shut up about the sound system alrdy!!

[tom6612]

Parenti is Chomsky with an edge. Plus Parenti is much more realistic about certain historical events like the 1960s assassinations. I would really recommend his Youtube lecture on "The Gangster Nature of The State". It's filled with brilliant analysis.

[August1977]

Ideas are not about essence and quality, it's all about pragmatism, unanimity and consensus, i.e. the notion that 'truth' only matters if and when professed collectively. This is true to the extent that social structures and hierarchies are the result of consensual views which implies that they have a social function independent of the essence of these views.

[TheeUnidentified]

“The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.” - Michael Parenti

[Yukoners4CivilRights]

I heard Parenti on the local radio station up here talking about world war 2. Since then have been following his work full time. The language in the notes could be simplified but at the same time it's not that hard to pick up a dictionary.

[canaan1967]

@fewmetsiam4u

There's not a book or a talk by Parenti that's not worth listening to.

[canaan1967]

I'm was told by someone that I read to much and that I believe "everything that I read". I said that it's precisely the opposite in that I stopped believing everything I read and have become very skeptical and selective of what I read in the process of forming my heterodox views.

[DuffmanIRL]

@MarioSavioTZM Exactly. It was the same for me. Thats needlessly complicated language.