Chris Hedges "American Anomie"

Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 3, 2018. He is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 12 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. His other books include "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt," (2015) “Death of the Liberal Class” (2010), “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His latest book is "America: The Farewell Tour" (2018). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig and hosts a show, "On Contact," on RT America.
A SanctuaryTV Production: Director/Switcher-Branda Miller; Cameras- Dave Publow, Jay Wilcox; Sound- Troy Pohl; Editor- Michael Siarkowsi; Executive Producer-Steve Pierce; Special Thanks- Meghan Marohn.
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[@rickbishop5987]

I cant get enough of Chris Hedges.

[@silverfox9285]

Same here

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

He is a nut though, and so are all of you following his crackpot theories: says the rest of society, even as they drive humanity into economic, social and... over the cliff.

[@mkaiser29]

Chris Hedges is one of the most important voices in the United States today!

[@MrSp0iler]

why is he silent that eastern europeans that he defends threw out germans from their homes when war ended

[@catherinesnodgrass7676]

In the world. I'm an Australian and I think he should be compulsory listening

[@albertolopeznarvaez9513]

@@MrSp0iler ? Puzzled 🤨

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

@@MrSp0iler As a direct outcome of the war and attrocities the Germans have done in those countries, there could never be a peaceful with eachother there. Both of my parents were "Heimat Vertriebene", my mom walked with her parents as a 16 year old from the Memel region (on the Russian border) straight to Dresden to widness the bombardements of it. She did never overcome the loss. What is to condemn is the violence against these people by authorities of the governments and the Russian army. My grandma had to endure the death march in the former Czechoslowakian Republik. I'm glad young Zcech people are digging deeper into this and other attrocities. But that they had to leave was a rational decision.

[@camillehykes1195]

@@MrSp0iler by

[@susielynn7035]

Brilliant. I listen to and read everything I can from Chris Hedges. I never tire of listening to his wisdom, or a particular antidote or story for the 10th time. One of the few speaking truth. Thank you!!

[@Ren-fe5bn]

How does he DO that? I'll sometimes know what anecdotes are coming just by the title, but listen / read anyway, and am invariably pleased or even surprised with a new delivery, placement in context or both.

[@InvestingForTomorrow24]

Susie, Susie, it would help your credibility to substitute "anecdote" in place of "antidote".

[@Ren-fe5bn]

@Neil Heckman : Nice turn of phrase yourself, shaving the negative tinge off of "disillusionment" by using it properly.

[@JoelApplegate]

This man is amazing - speaking, putting into words, what I have felt for decades; capitalism running roughshod over democracy. I'm only sorry I did not discover him sooner.

[@stevevogel8840]

He sounds like he is telling the truth, but is it the truth? I have watched so videos and not everything he says it the truth.

[@Rossion64]

From Dublin Ireland, thank you Chris for your endurance. Peace to you and your family.

[@claudeghendrih762]

You do realize you're rather boring ?

[@mikebtko]

@@claudeghendrih762 NYT Chris Hedges was screwed cuz he plagiarized articles, then he writes his own sh*t and calls this Fascism, oh puleeze, this is subversion, with both parties licking )ew *ss, "To be anti-Communist is to be anti-)ew!" - )ewish Village Voice

[@claudeghendrih762]

mikebtko That was a beautiful fart , next you'll be painting your playpen with your poop.

[@mikebtko]

@@claudeghendrih762 sellout

[@goodsirknight]

Hello fellow Dublin-dweller One of the most urgent and important talks I've heard in a long time See you at the extinction rebellion protest on Saturday

[@4exgold]

his introduction on Durkheim's Anomie was like lighting a flame in a hopeless dungeon. Utterly brilliant.

[@alexcarter8807]

Notice that what Durkheim was saying is that people find meaning in exactly the kind of societies we in the modern US are proud of having freed ourselves from. Societies with tons of social/family obligations. You can't kill yourself because you're your nephew's godfather. You can't kill yourself because you're working to help your father amass your sister's dowry. You can't kill yourself because who will run the farm, or the family shoe repair business or small restaurant.

[@karendalsadik7119]

Well put. I need to read Durkheim. Chris should have a bibliography at the end of his video.

[@debbY100]

@@alexcarter8807 What you’re describing is a Collectivist society, like China or Vietnam. The greater good is more important - the role you play to serve your community/family/group is valued above individuality. Also detrimental to the human spirit. I don’t think we have a solution to living in true authentic harmony, in the modern world, sadly.

[@glorioskiola]

Thank you Chris hedges for continuing to speak and write. The world needs you!

[@markarianludd5930]

One of the few sane voices in the US. He is a national treasure.

[@vizmatter]

A clear, incisive, compelling voice and a beacon for those who have finally awoken!

[@JudoJonny5]

"...expressing your individual identity while you're being stripped of collective power"

[@betteswan9431]

Chris Hedges puts into words what I think many people are grappling with. Truth.

[@edebs6243]

Are you guys also familiar with Michael Parenti? Since I've first heard or read anything of his I never miss a chance to read or listen to his work. US working class history was erased from today's public school curriculum, the universities, hollywood, and of course the now monopolized (6 corporations) corporate media. Over the last 100 years through the Palmer Raids, McCarthy and the 'House Un-American Committee,' the Smith Act, Taft-Hartley, the Creel Committee, the C|A's own 'Congress for Cultural Freedom,' etc., the ruling class has wiped virtually any trace of our people's history. How can we carry the torch or continue the fight if we don't know it happened??

[@annalisa14]

E Debs - yes. And research Alternative Radio.

[@Music-tp3wh]

Oh definitely. I've read four of his books. But if I were to suggest one for everyone to read - make sure to read America the Farewell Tour. It's so much truth packed into one book. He spells out the entire despair and loneliness and emptiness that any person who lives in America knows in their heart they feel every day. Corporations have scraped and carved this once great country for everything it had to offer.

[@austinbeige]

Sadly truth isn't popular anymore, it's become a blunt instrument.

[@greeneyes7392]

8alot4t could you imagine joe Rogan having him as a guest ?

[@Dani68ABminus]

It’s when I hear great minds like Chris Hedges speak that I don’t feel alone. Thank you for your laser focus on what has been rolling out in slow motion for decades and thank you for your courage to not only engage the brain in the magnificent way you do, but also the heart. In the end, it’s always the heart that we feel in the other that moves us to find the courage to speak out and act. Tausend Dank!

[@Sabiola007Mr]

Dani68ABminus - Your comment dovetails with the graciousness of this presentation from Chris Hedges - Thanks!

[@111Phoenix777]

This is one of the best speeches I've ever heard my entire life. Chris Hedges is a national treasure.

[@pseudo_ra]

Joe yes

[@ravanabrahmarakshas4263]

Joe he is rottrn atheist. mixing truth and bull shit. comfused as spagetti. no solution. he wants to unite gays against christian bull shit. a ixed confused lost soul shouting bull shit that has no solution. sorry for you bro that you have not seen real power and correct content from the source of power. you still have time. seek you shall find. Moses Vegan-Religion.org

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Let's have more of these discussions. Please. Chris. You know you give us a voice.

[@johnclamp1535]

Thank you yet again Chris Hedges for telling it like it is. Thank heaven you still have a platform.

[@sheldonbodryn1003]

Anomie: now I see what destroyed my dear wife and is destroying me, as the clueless around me cannot be reached.

[@cjlooklin1914]

I'm sorry for you and your wife, I hope you found reasons to keep on going

[@foodparadise5792]

Damn some brutally honest truth

[@TimezUp23]

He is basically calling out the violent globalist. Those who installed Israel. Those who won ww2. Those who undermine culture and borders.

[@comradesillyotter1537]

@@TimezUp23 Have you been listening? Because clearly you havent

[@comradesillyotter1537]

@@lifotheparty6195 It's all capitalism, in the end

[@joebondo2422]

I love this man. He’s beyond extraordinary, a visionary & courageous. He absolutely tells it like it is with eloquence. GOD bless you Chris Hedges.

[@jansoderlund364]

Chris Hedges is a voice to trust. In my America he would be President. Then the world would stand a chance.

[@SonnyHoood]

that would have to be post revolution, corporatocracy will never allow it

[@andyakarudolfhessiansack7936]

Great comment.

[@nole8923]

Sonny Hood Only because of the psy-ops and the moronification of most Americans by decades of msm propaganda. Once you are awake you stand in utter amazement of the ignorance of majority of the American people.

[@andyakarudolfhessiansack7936]

@@nole8923 Exactly right. I went around the MSM 5+ years ago, began reading Hedges, chomsky and other reliable sources. Once you get "accurate info" on whats going on around you, You look back with amazement of how utterly controlled and out of touch people are. Its a double edged sword too, because now its a very isolated lonely road being one of very few switched on people. Its like living in the fucking twilight zone to be honest. When i hear Hedges, it gives me relief. I now have utter contempt for the MSM. My folks watch it in front of me, and when i point out the folly in what they are watching.....ironically they think "its me" who is wrong and being silly!! You couldn't make it up in your wildest dystopian novel.

[@dagda825]

Glad dumbfucks like you are balls deep in Mouselli and not running anything important

[@aibrainlet8041]

Chris Hedges, you are a ray of hope that boldly shines through the dark clouds that are engulfing humanity. I cannot thank you enough being a voice of *true* dissent and unapolegetic unwavering moral dignity. The only thing that leads me to believe the human species is not in it's final hour is the fact that brave souls like yours still exist and still tell the truth. The whole truth.

[@williamwhite999]

A brilliant man

[@feralsage5696]

Loved listening to the man starting at 1:11:30. He expresses the best response to Chris Hedges' talk (and his vision and his values). Chris Hedges speaks the truth unflinchingly, yet doesn't destroy the last vestiges of hope (only stripping away false hopes). His words deepen my resolve. Thanks to the Media Sanctuary for hosting this talk. I've watched it several times since it first aired, and it inspires me every time.

[@albertroundtree8546]

Thank you Chris for helping me find an understanding of why my friends and family find it so difficult to make ends meet. Good paying jobs with holiday and pay are now scarce, while at the same time, I am encouraged to admire the rich and famous who pay next to nothing in taxes.

[@jjutt87]

"Demagogues always arise from failed democracies, plagued by rulelessness and anomie." - Chris Hedges

[@saragarcia8954]

Por eso digo que todos los goviernos de este mundo son una mafia.y que muy pronto Dios va a venir a poner orden .no debemos preocuparnos por eso.Dios es El juez justo dara a cada uno lo que se merece.

[@Scyllax]

jjutt87 “Anomie”

[@bobsmith962]

Obama was a demagogues for the left and delivered very little. He let down his base. Now let's see who can deliver.

[@Scyllax]

Bob Smith Barack Obama was more pragmatic and conservative than Bill Clinton. As Hedges points out, the last liberal in the White House was Nixon. I’m sorry, Racist Trumpholesucker, but Foxhole Newspeak portraying Obama as the son of Malcolm X and Fidel Castro is a total Big Lie.

[@darrinsiberia]

JFK was a sympathizer with MLK JR. and was considering backing out of Vietnam that's why he was offed. You either play their games by their rules or they off you. They run the shows. They don't run everrything. But they want to think they do. They want to think they have a plan for everything, always. They don't though. They're also human and have basic needs and fears. They also have families and traditions and human tendencies. Their ways are being phased out. More and more are getting into the stock market now. You also have more and more politicians from diverse backgrounds who can fund raise independently. The only useful thing Obama did was his campaign showed how you can engage small donors and turn that into a national campaign.

[@yadrog.4405]

AMAZING VIDEO! MY EYES ARE WIDE OPEN TO WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH IN THIS COUNTRY! THANK YOU!!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

His explanation of WHY auto workers voted for Drumpf after voting for Sanders - is spot on. I protested against NAFTA back in 1992 and I was at the shutdown of the WTO in 1999.

[@bobsmith962]

The dems supported NAFTA and TPP. They sold out the manufacturing base, no wonder they lost in 2016.

[@bluebuddha4899]

The GOP actually wrote NAFTA. It was the GOP’s idea. In the end Trump did not make any changes to NAFTA. It was all a smoke screen. Obama saved the auto industry while the GOP would have let it die after Bush crashed the economy in 2008. Dems get all the blame for something that happened 30 years ago but no credit for something that happened 10 years ago. There was no justification to vote for Trump. He is a con man destroying the USA. He is the cult leader described by Chris.

[@joeforbes2885]

@@bluebuddha4899but they are all con men when they take big money to pass legislation like NAFTA that was passed by Clinton, a Democrat? Obama didn't save the auto industry, he saved the corporations that still DOMINATE it today. Why are you carrying weight for these Democrats like they any better, they are the reason we dont have a real left party, they are and always have been complicit with the corporate takeover of America and Abroad. You have to try see through the partisan propaganda we have all been indoctrinated into.

[@batgirlp5561]

@@bluebuddha4899 Once Clinton was embroiled in his infidelity scandal, he let the GOP have their way, NAFTA was one result.

[@crackthefoundation_]

​@@bobsmith962they lost because they tried to fix it for Hillary and were scared of an actual genuine person (Bernie) winning, as well

[@aland5478]

If you can listen to this for 2 hours you are ready to fight!

[@mexicanabist8705]

Man we been ready

[@maxfastest]

Been ready so long that I'm now too old to fight

[@susanmercurio1060]

@@maxfastest : Yep, I was ready to fight in 1968 and now I'm 75. I'm glad that the millenials have stepped up to the plate, because I have been planning to get on the barricades, even if I have to push an aluminum walker up to them.

[@susanmercurio1060]

Watch How to Start a Revolution DVD documentary and read From Dictatorship to Democracy the book

[@swississue4950]

This is the first speech for me ! 30 minutes and he speaks straight from my heart. Exactly the same is happening in Europe ! Don't hide your love away people ! Lets inform ourselves and aim for quick painless truth ! Which may be a painful acceptance of the sacrifices which have to be made ? As we have to ! We shall protect our island ! We know more atrocity's have been committed to cleanse and control our cultural development, as have been used to free us of those tyrannical strategies ! Don't be scared ! Be Brave !

[@skippynoodles3502]

I feel a need to bask in this man's wise eloquence daily.

[@SonnyHoood]

The only news agency that will allow him to speak is RT. think about that. Hes banned from all US media outlets even PBS

[@edebs6243]

That's how I've felt about Michael Parenti too since I discovered him!

[@calholli]

He should go on Rogan... It would be bigger than anything he could do on Tv.

[@edebs6243]

@@calholli Parenti or Hedges? I believe Parenti might be retired now. The latest video of him that I've seen was from 2015 I think. But Michael Parenti has been fired and banned more than any of them (as far as I know.) He was really close with Bernie Sanders in the 80's in Vermont (I think they ran on the 'Liberty Union' ticket together if I'm not mistaken.) Parenti wrote 'Inventing Reality' 2 years before Chomsky wrote 'Manufacturing Consent' repeating some of the same things Parenti's book had discussed - but no credit was given. Chomsky is 'pretend marginalized,' (not really marginalized at all!) The ruling class does *not* want us to start listening to and reading Michael Parenti. He's more of a threat to them than Hedges I would argue. But that's something you'd have to decide for yourself.

[@annalisa14]

Sonny Hood - yes. PBS is run by Koch brothers.

[@beckywauer7308]

I've never heard of Chris Hedges before. I'm so impressed. He is such a man of reason and wisdom.

[@urbugnmetoday3183]

He reads...

[@daysjours]

This man is a national treasure.

[@SuperXrunner]

Besides Cornell West, I could listen to this guy all day

[@megg.6651]

I love you Chris Hedges!

[@DorothyGTyas]

Thank-you magnificent Chris Hedges🍃❣🍃

[@annalisa14]

A voice in the wilderness... a clear, loud clarion call to CHANGE the WHOLE THING! Shall we do it? He’s leading it !!!👍👍👍

[@Mdjagg]

26:56 Some of the best stuff from Hedges I've heard. I know he's said this a hundred times now, but this is one of the most concise points on this topic.

[@katedevoy]

Chris Hedges, from the other side of the world, Thankyou for being the person you are. You are now one of the only people I listen to regarding the horror that America (esp) is going through. Everyone in the USA should be listening to you -and those you interview- as the sense of truth within the complexity of your discussions is profound. For those who love music and want it real, have a listen to leonard Cohen’s “Democracy”. Leonard Cohen: artist poet visionary prophet and who died the day Trump was elected… “It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen square, Its coming from the feel that it ain’t exactly real, or its real but it ain’t exactly there from the war against disorder, from the sirens night and day from the fires of the homeless from the ashes of the gay democracy is coming, to the USA. Sail on, Sail on, Oh mighty ship of state To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on It’s coming to America first, the cradle of the best and of the worst It’s here they got the range and the machinery for change and its here they got the spiritual thirst It’s here the families broken, and its here the lonely say, that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way Democracy of coming to the USA…”

[@joecasey7415]

Cohen was a big supporter of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

@@joecasey7415 I've noted that many older Jewish people are married to ancient history. Yes...it's tragic.

[@joecasey7415]

@@kirstinstrand6292 Many not so old ones as well.

[@Jeannelawes]

Subscribe the Jimmy Dore Show for truth also. Chris Hedges talks with Jimmy Dore here (its in 3 parts) .. ttps://kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2eYdaqIrsuWo9E

[@rickydee5863]

Kate decoy thanks for the lichen lyrics love that man

[@scottlawder1269]

Chris is the closest thing to a pastor I have.

[@Johnconno]

@Lawdy! Guess you must live somewhere rather isolated? Alaska? Greenland? Arabia?

[@bobtaylor170]

Consider doing something about that.

[@scottlawder1269]

Jayzee actuall no, in a red state unfort. You ruskies crack me up

[@scottlawder1269]

Did you fail reading comprehension.

[@scottlawder1269]

About. what. You left a dangling modifier there. @@bobtaylor170

[@stonearcher603]

The look on people faces in the audience as Hedges speak the dark truth is priceless.

[@eugenedebs9547]

It takes a lot of work to expose the propaganda.

[@nilsingbo]

I am very greatful for all your efforts ,Chris Hedges . ! You have given me some hope in my despair ! I am trying to resist . Have you any recommedation on how we make our resistance stronger. We almost met in Nicaragua where I was working as representative to -Swedish Save The Children- . I have followed your work for long time . Please take care of your self . We need you strong and healthy ! We need your strong voice ! Please all of you ! Support the work of Chris Hedges ! Thank you Chris !

[@gailg1458]

May I recommend the plan I"m using: I no longer buy ANYTHING new except food. I borrow, share, make, or do without. If everyone did this, we would bring down the oppressors because we are legion and they are few. The only reason the system remains is because we support it with our purchases. I don't care that as I sit here, I an wearing 10 year old crocks, or that my jeans have holes in them. As long as you use your money to support the system that you rail against, you will accomplish nothing.

[@gailg1458]

@@jimbodriver1015 I hope you get the courage to say whre you got whatever and why you no longer purchase anything new. that's how word spreads

[@yva1118yva]

@@gailg1458 do exactly the same! (:

[@badpanda1578]

Chris Hedges for President 2020. Let the revolution begin!!!

[@assimonem1189]

OK it is him-but he will not be president .Alf mcoys (who he mentioned) polotics of heroin in east asia. Read it and weep.

[@MaggieTheCat01]

He’d be a terrific president.

[@markgerrard383]

Far far far too decent a man to serve the Satanic Rothschilds as US president...

[@jt4369]

It won’t happen. We are collectively too damn stupid. It’s as he said: the misdirected masses are desperate to look to a charismatic cult leader who promises a return to a Golden past. Hedges is too intellectual and he certainly will not promise anything. In short, Chris Hedges is too honest for America.

[@faithalessandri1879]

That's awesome. Do you think he would go for it tho?

[@eugenedebs9547]

One hardworking dude

[@oliviacadena2036]

Amen to that!!!! 👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁😇😇😇

[@BernieHollandMusic]

The voice of decency in an indecent world

[@normankeena]

how would you know

[@leloupdessteppes3228]

2024, here we are. Chris Hedges is a visionary!

[@elpompo5166]

Chris should be considered like a Maximum Citizen of the Wold. Nobel prize should be given to people like him.

[@danieltherapy]

Paternal Hedges Wonderfully erudite. A precise, insightful and at times prophet commentator who with clarity and aplomb, informs all; kindly but assertively.

[@niksatan]

whenever i am happy, i watch Chris Hedges, it returns me to the dark reality of life

[@donnapug]

That’s a bit twisted no? 😂

[@michelvandepol1485]

I am a big fan of Chris Hedges, What strikes me the most is that he has more understanding of today ;s economy than most economists do! I never hear economist argue and questing the insanity of today's economy like he does

[@edgycoder4346]

What a Man! I`m proud to be his conteporary.

[@mahitajenny]

Profound - Thank You

[@Detector1977]

The country needs more people like Chris...

[@badpanda1578]

Chris, you ARE my HERO!!!! THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING MY VIEWS!! PLEASE DON'T STOP WRITING AND LECTURING!!!

[@Jeannelawes]

So here I am back again to listen.

[@mcraemctaggart4396]

Love Chris Hedges!!!!

[@leealexander3507]

Thank you for putting words to what I cannot. I lost my ability to speak eleven years ago after a surgery.

[@jamesboulger8705]

It puts thing in perspective when you realize just HOW MUCH the entire infrastructure is necessary for wealthy organizations and individuals to earn their money. It suddenly seems much more reasonable to increase their tax obligations. One microcosm of this in action is how Wal-Mart relies on local cops rather than hiring security to deal with issues in their stores. It gets so bad some law enforcement individuals feel they just have to have a police officer permanently stationed at Wal-Mart. This is called subsidizing their security.

[@maximuscomfort]

Thank you, KZbin for introducing Chris Hedges to me.

[@eddielindaa]

Brilliant man

[@samkim8451]

This speech has to be live on all main stream media and television news live 👍🌹✌️🇨🇦

[@normankeena]

don't be an idiot, nothing is live, except yerself

[@richmonmccullough4116]

I can listen to this mans lectures all day long and learn something new every-time I watch it

[@justinbaker2883]

On my 4th Chris Hedges talk. Thanks Jimmy Dore for sending me down this rabbit hole.

[@gailg1458]

Finally, a word that astutely describes what my experience is. "Anomie"

[@talloolahmoon]

The fabulous Mr Hedges

[@proletarianguard6455]

It's easier for government to manage discontent when the affected people are politically sequestered within a narrow ideology, or pitted against other groups,parties, and individuals whose ideas may not align. I wish we could put aside this team mentality for a little while. I would presume that nearly all of Americans feel that Congress does not represent them, or at least act with their well being/quality of life in mind. Imagine if people came together, regardless of political party, religion, race, class, gender and agreed, "let's put ALL our differences aside for a later day, but today....today let's march on the capitol with 1 demand-- Represent Us!". Short of this solidarity being realized , I fear we're doomed

[@Mdjagg]

We are doomed. People are ignorant, regardless of their level of education. The vast majority of our fellow Americans have no idea what is happening in the world. Local news, and Trump highlights are the only thing on their radar. Look at the outrage over Saudi Arabia's recent assassination of the elite journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We murder people everyday and chalk it up the "collateral damage". If Khashoggi wasn't in elite circles of other powerful people, we'd have never heard his name. Our government is the most dangerous organization in all of the world, and they like to preach morality while stealing our money and giving it to the war industry to kill and destroy, all in the name of profit.

[@thomasm8699]

Agreed!! Try to convince single-issue social justice warriors of that, but if you do, "have one foot in the stirrup".

[@jamescc2010]

Totally agree. It is encumbered upon people to come together face to face or social media to make necessary system changes instead working against each other as Trump or elite want us to be divided. We are team! We need to put fear on the elite and elected politicians.

[@IndiaAniya25]

I 100% agree. Not of that will matter if we have no say. We are fueling their system. They are profiting. We are not. How does race, religion or gender even matter when it comes to the ability to live.

[@albertricks1927]

Chris is a Harvard Divinity School aficionado. He knows how to deliver a fiery sermon.

[@alexcarter8807]

Hell he's not only an aficionado, he's a graduate!

[@tapptom]

May God bless You Chris Hedges

[@omanirivera8006]

Reverend, thank you 🙏🏽

[@shanegilberthill]

I love you Chris, I thank god for you, for at least ONE person taking a moral stand. Thank you. 🙏❤🙏

[@IcarianX]

Much love for Chris. Inspiration. I'm doing my best Chris, to contribute from my little corner of the world, individual action, petitions, educating my friends and family, and contacting my local representatives on the important issues. I can do more, and I will do more. Chris, you inspire me!

[@giszTube]

How does this not have millions of views?

[@kaninma7237]

Good riddance to the American empire. Get out while you can, if you can. Other better places are out there, and many cost less to live in. Work for change from a different country.

[@ProductofSeebach]

@@creativeandaliveat65 American citizens are primarily immigrants, and have been so from the start. American heritage is ultimately rooted on jumping ship and abandoning the concept of obligations and duties to their nation. Just as immigrants flee poverty today to run to the US and are incapable of elevating themselves, so too were the first immigrants unable to conquer the tyrannies that they fled in Europe or in Asia. What you are saying isn't wrong at all, but the problem is that Americans are incapable of being anything else. There is a myth that America is the "land of the free, and the home of the brave", and it is just that - a myth. If they were capable of fixing anything they would have done so in their original homelands.

[@FRANKMANGIAPANE]

Karl Timmerman It’s human nature, the grass is always greener thing.

[@ProductofSeebach]

@François Miville Democracy is a shield of lies for deep state philosopher kings. Go reread Plato's Republic. Things like rights and liberties are propaganda to create an illusion of accountability where ultimately there is none.

[@b.bailey8244]

@@creativeandaliveat65 Well said!

[@JoeyVol]

There will always be a world leader. America at least has a free press and voting. Without America guarding free trade there will be Chinese global communist party authoritarianism. Those are your only options. There is no magical option C.

[@gregpovy]

Chris preaching what most pastors fear to say. Thank you Chris for doing what so many religious leaders have failed to do.

[@markcrounse9919]

The most concise accurate and poignant speech of our time. He’s personally experienced the horrors of which he speaks. A voice of truth in a world of deception & lies.

[@MD-bf2ce]

nothing confirms my radicalization more then this holy shit!

[@vladimir0700]

Well, here it is Feb 2020 and nothing has changed, despite the brilliant speeches. As the Greek poet Aeschylus said, things are as they are and will end as they must

[@Ambushofblacks]

Today is MARCH 2020, and we are witnessing a drastic change. A scary health crisis and a declining stock market ready to implode.

[@michaelleahy123]

@@Ambushofblacks and a moron in charge

[@vladimir0700]

Yes, well, things are bound to get continually worse. What I meant was, nothing has changed for the better. We really are living in the end times

[@rjvowels]

This guy is amazing!!!!!

[@nonamilast5311]

I Just found you guys nice to see so many at these gatherings, thank you for your work.

[@rodneyt61]

This man is a genius.

[@patrickkelly7612]

Rodney Taylor.......totally agree. I never imagined a Presbyterian Minister would be my favorite intellectual.

[@fabiengerard8142]

Well, clearly the most ‘lyrical’ one, BTW - his main difference with the more ‘down to earth’ Noam. Both uniquely lucid and charismatic U.S. minds in this already pretty doomed century, though.

[@Pets-n-Treats]

And what they did to Amy Goodman for reporting what was going on at Standing Rock.

[@talicatinai2637]

while outlining many of mankinds flaws we must remember that there are very many good traits that are inherant in society . Hope and faith are the lifelines we depend upon to avoid being overwhemed by the negatives .

[@mysticgold1947]

God bless Mr Chris. Hedges a real American man an awake human being

[@michaelreed4109]

Thanks for your insights.

[@williamwells835]

"We can cooperate on a higher level or a lower. Both mean getting our living together. To cooperate on the higher is a harmony inaudible to men, as if it were not." --- Henry David Toreau

[@jt4369]

I cannot tell you what a feeling of relief washes over me to see a room full of intellectuals who haven't been bought and inculcated by the lunacy of the masses.

[@anderslarsen4912]

So many good points. No one can identify the hypocrites like Mr. Hedges. Chris, you are hereby awarded a medal for telling it like it is, not just in the US but also, right here, in my own country in the north of Europe.

[@Tsnore]

Well, thanks Chris. I'm depressed again after listening to all this.

[@Tsnore]

@La Bestia Politica The adage is true of intelligent folk: ignorance is bliss, but....

[@gchijioke12]

Truth is depressing

[@steppenwolf3252]

Your subconscious was depressed anyway. Now you can bring it to your consciousness....and from there you may have the chance to change for the better. Or at least give it your best shot.

[@MrWorldasmaya]

As often as I reasonably can I refer people to Chris Hedges as a lighthouse of sorts. MSM will never give him the attn. he deserves because he's critical of the Corporate state. It's up to us to expose more people to him. You'll find he often appeals to a range of ideologies.

[@Walery1024]

Big corporation is a good thing. HORROR is that they are turned PUBLIC. Means the ownership is disconnected from any individual. Fund managers are just as good as communist apparatchiks as far as their motivation is concerned. Scavengers. Worse: there is no capital punishment for their ill dealings. Astonishingly only positive comments are listed. When I listen to this presentation hear doom days sect prophet. When I walk outdoors I see crowds of fat smiling, individuals driving oversized cars. Isn't it that two-by-four is actually thinner than two by four inches, isn't it that American ton is 900 kg as opposed to 1000. The fraud was always an integral part of the economy. We just do it on a bigger and bigger scale. And everybody drives a bigger and bigger car.

[@trista4congress827]

EVERY MEMBER OF US CONGRESS SHOULD BE FORCED TO LISTEN TO THIS LECTURE! :) Another BRILLIANT lecture, Chris Hedges! PLEASE, RUN FOR OFFICE W/ME! :)

[@4everu984]

Eye opening and heart wrenching.

[@CrucialSpeaks]

YOU ARE A TRUE SCHOLAR CHRIS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENDURANCE FOR US ALL. IF WE DO NOT DESTROY THE POWERS AT LARGE AS A PEOPLE IN THE USA, CHINA AND RUSSIA WILL DO IT FOR US.

[@sirierieott5882]

From London 🇬🇧 Thank you Chris Hedges for your intellect, insight and interpretation of today’s corruption of society, enslaving the many to serve the few without conscience or consequence.

[@CBT5777]

If Ralph Nader was running again, I'd still vote for him regardless of his age. He's still smart as ever.

[@nosondre]

Best lecture ever. Your logic is impeccable. We are in grave danger.

[@scottmcfadyen293]

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine.

[@MrRhamu]

Chris hedges lectures sooth me to sleep, knowing at least there is one person standing up to this global destructors

[@musicloverkathy]

I listen to at least one of your talks every day and I always hear Andrea in your work. I corresponded with her for about 5 years and was fortunate to spend some time with her in person. When my mother died, she sent me a copy of LIFE AND DEATH with a note in that said she hoped it cheered me up. Only Andrea would say that. When I first read her work, it was the first time I ever knew I wasn't crazy. Her words are like air to me. I am so grateful you paid this beautiful tribute to her. You both tell the truth. Her death was heartbreaking and other than Nicky Croft, not many people understand who she was. Thank you.

[@maxfastest]

It is amazing that this man can put to words exactly what i have seen and felt was wrong around me for the last 40 years !! I am finally confidant that i have been correct all this time ! We are screwed. There will be no answer for what has been done to the planet.

[@Ambushofblacks]

This week is the worst week since the 70s, todays stock market will ironically on friday the 13th, may fall to the point that it will us into a recession, or for some a depression

[@ximenaclaure2524]

I love how smart an well put your explanation. I will fallow you because You explain perfectly what is going on.

[@vladimir0700]

The fact that trump was elected says more about the American people than it does about trump himself

[@tesla416]

Correct, the people are sick of the way the country has been run, shipping all our jobs out. The presidents since 1973 have done nothing to help. They made too many mistakes, and they don't really give a shit!!

[@vladimir0700]

Raygun presided over and was largely responsible for amerika’s descent into total collapse-but then, he was merely a clueless puppet

[@muttleycrew]

Outstanding, more like a public service than a public lecture. The entire talk is one long quotable quote.

[@pt3pdx]

Great speech!