Noam Chomsky on U.S. Education System

Noam Chomsky Q&A at the Syracuse Peace Councils 75th Anniversary event on May 11, 2011.

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[rosiethebear300]

Why don't more people listen to this man! He's the sharpest and most moral intellectual of our time!

[qtutoringhelps]

@WarVideo

In another recent lecture at Univ of Toronto (you can find it on YouTube somewhere), he explicitly mentions: Milton Friedman, Hayek and Ayn Rand in the same breath. He says something like: "While holding up copies of Friedman, Hayek and Ayn Rand in one hand, the bankers on Wall Street take in the massive tax-payer funded bailouts in the other." (His point is that the wealthy get help from the nanny state, while the rest of us poor basters are told to suffer in the free market.)

[mikero08]

@rosiethebear300 Most people have never even heard of Chomsky b/c corporate owned networks will not feature anyone who doesn't kowtow to the "conventional" wisdom and accepted propaganda pushed by government. It's just the same hacks parroting the party line, 7 days a week. The press in America is far less free than you might think.

[buzzin1975]

@rosiethebear300 Yeah, and he also says the same things I knew when I was 2. Nothing new here.

[Uchi84Madara]

@qtutoringhelps that's the gangsters-system. the state, the corporations and wall street are run and owned by the same gang. they exploit you as a taxpayer AND as a consumer AND as a worker.

[TolpuddleMartyr]

@qtutoringhelps Okay, I'll have a look for it.

[qtutoringhelps]

@TolpuddleMartyr

He constructs a strawman of the Ayn Rand Objectivist rational selfish position; he does not deal with the actual arguments. I watched a clip last year which had, to my recollection about 2,300 views at the time, in which he says "I think you should care about other people," then he says Ayn Rand said "all that matters is self, and she supports private tyranny" (I cannot locate Youtube link; search: 'Chomsky corporations')--this is not Rand's position in Virtue of Selfishness.

[TolpuddleMartyr]

@qtutoringhelps Any luck tracking down that link? I'd really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes finding it for me or at least show me where I should begin looking for it. Thanks in advance.

[TolpuddleMartyr]

@qtutoringhelps I was referring to Chomsky's comments in this clip. You said that 'he equates concern for one's self with a "crazed maniac"'. In this particular clip, he doesn't say that. However, in the interest of fairness, show me where I can find the clip/essay/article where he does make such a statement and I'll happily admit my error (although, as I said, I was referring specifically to this clip, not to comments Chomsky made elsewhere).