Noam Chomsky Lecture Part 4/6

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTwxx...

Noam Chomsky's Lecture at the University of Tennessee. January 25, 2011 in Alumni Memorial Building's Cox Auditorium. Brought to you by the University of Tennessee Issues Committee.

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[wda013]

" 'Privatization' does not mean you take a public institution and give it to some nice person; it means you take a public institution and give it to an unaccountable tyranny.

Public institutions have many side benefits ... " -- Noam Chomsky

[37Dionysos]

This lecture is worth 3 months of trying to pry information and anchoring facts and empowering insights from mainstream media. Thank you for sharing it with world at large.

[Joseph Cowan]

I hope you're criticizing the university organizers for this thoughtless action.

[mnik0623]

It was one of the replies meant for unfortunatebeam's comment; I accidentally post it to you instead of unfortunatebeam, then removed it. The rest of the replies to unfortunatebeam are in order from bottom to top starting from his comment; (to whoever might be interested to read them :)

[owenhunt]

Your removed reply to me - could you explain it? If there were more than one then the version I can see in my message box is a little incongruent?

[mnik0623]

To illustrate the point, think about the plastic water bottle and this video: watch?v=OZbTXDkrD1o . That goes without comment (there are many more, much better videos online on the perils of plastic bottles as externalities of conditioning, shareholder profit, institutional sociopathy :). And this is a small example. To end this, perhaps meaningless, thread of response to your question (very serious in fact). No, "we" are doing things, but not too many or enough.

[mnik0623]

Now, apply epithets such as degraded, socio-pathic, meglomanical power, elite to a bulk of institutions, think about their role in society and see if the epithets fit (but see that based on information and full array of facts). You, again, might be at surprise: it is like a tailor made suit :) In fact, it is a tailor made suit. Then, ask who was/were the tailors; were they ill-intentioned, if not, were they incompetent; or, were they well-intentioned, but for their family?

[mnik0623]

The next point is self evident: of course, the people that you mention are not killing, stressing, raping, etc. us. Why would they? It is people among society that kill, rape, stress, oppress especially when they are conditioned into a state of such predisposition. Beside the point, would it be fair to say that if the proportion of people on welfare committing crimes is higher than that of the people owning a laptop, then it is welfare that is the cause?