Noam Chomsky - 'The End of the Mega Machine'

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[sms]

This needs more views! Thank you for sharing. 🙏

[ChooseCompassion]

Professor Chomsky is my mentor, my teacher, my hero, and one of the greatest truth tellers of our time. We are so blessed that at his tender age that he is still willing to show up and speak the truth. He’s the only person I truly agree with 100% on absolutely everything. And I’m a sponge for the knowledge that he’s dropping on us daily. I’m so grateful for these online interviews.

This book sounds awesome. It’s my first introduction to this man.

[dieyoung]

Great discussion. Thanks for taking the time and doing the hard work in bringing us this information.

[optimalchoice]

OLD NEWS but Chomsky is always worth listening to again.

[ChooseCompassion]

The idea of subsidizing fossil fuel companies is something I consider to find extraordinarily obscene.

[dividedconquered]

"I am opposed to any appearance in Israel that is used for nationalistic or other propaganda purposes to cover up its occupation and denial of Palestinian human rights. I’ve been involved in activities to hold Israel accountable for its international law violations since before the BDS movement took shape. While I have some tactical differences with the BDS movement, I strongly support the actions and continue to participate in them"- Noam Chomsky

[Kiyarose]

The best book that I’ve read that explained chronologically how Easter Island went from a pristine Paradise to a dead Rock devoid of all life. Linking other ‘Civilisations’ that collapsed for the exact same reasons. That being centralisation, mega Monolith building, mass agriculture causing deforestation and the resulting desertification. The book is called, A Green History of the World.

[JMLatvala]

There is one form of tyranny that he had forgotten about. And it has little to do with violence. Ancient Greeks had known "good tyrants" - Solon for example was appointed to be a tyrant of Athens, because he was considered to be so wise and capable. And in this case, tyranny was not associated with violence. Rather, tyranny meant that someone monopolized the public space, that one or a few people would make the decisions about common affairs of the many. From this perspective, which is crucial imo, we are also still living under tyranny.

[ralfheinrich]

23:14 Contract with USA is valuable like contract with Hitler. He said:"I am the one who brake contracts when I want".

[shawnasmith]

THEY ARE BLOCKING COMMENTS ON ASSANGE CASE, FREE ASSANGE

[dividedconquered]

I love Noam! A true inspiration to me! Hi, Nermeen! 🌷💚 Thank you Noam, for your truth and intellect! 😘😘 We need a 3rd party in the USA, a true labor party!

[timblackburn]

Nice demolition of the concept of state power - since we're all capable of figuring it out these days can't have long to wait...no boarders, no wars, no propaganda, true enlightenment 👏👏👏

[luperamos]

This video is from September 25, 2020 it says. Just for the people who don't read the description. He talks about massive evictions, but that obviously never happened.

[dennismiller]

The Netherlands has done a tremendous job of making transit by walking, cycling, and municipal safe and useable, reducing autos dramatically.

[Diogenes_von_Sinope]

as long as it is illegal to go to a place and live off the land without breaking laws. the lawmaker has to provide housing and nutrition. you cant take away basic things of life, and replace it with a environment where you have to spend all your waking hours to work for the right to live in someone elses house. and if he doesnt like you, or you cant pay anymore. your basically left to die. you have no right to exist but in a grey area until you starve, unless you're able to work for the people that own all the land. i dont feel bad at all for collecting welfare instead of working. i feel like everyone else has lost their minds. why would anyone comply with this society.

[jollyyeholiver]

I'm surprised at chomsky' arguement about nation states, it is hardly an expression of an understanding that the nation state should be eroded that the EU formed, the EU has always been a corporate project, that seeks to prevent the nation state from interfering in their business activities.
And he is literally arguing for superstates, that will clearly be ruled by those same corporate powers, I see no answer in his proposed solution at all. Just more divergence between rich and poor and more abuses to protect that divergence.

Oh dear and now he is pushing the vaccines, vaccines that have no where near enough testing to show they are safe, we have effective treatments the emergency use authorisation for the vaccines should be retracted.

[ronregnier]

thanks for comments on Europe/war-arms-debt/credits from Scheidler

[joehoey]

nice to see you out and about Nermeen, the trouble is
everyone knows what's needed, but there's no political will
THEY have to be dragged kicking and screaming, to do the right thing.

[donho]

Can we please get a microphone for Noam?

[xiaodongwang]

This is the second video in which I heard Noam’s dog barking. Noam kept talking in the other one, the topic of which I don’t recall. “Someone else wants to get into the act, ” he said this time. Long Live Noam, and the barking