Chris Hedges | Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges is the author of 11 books, including the bestsellers War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Empire of Illusion, and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. For nearly two decades he was a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most dangerous and impoverished places (including ones in America), earning wide acclaim for his eloquent and informative stories about the international war on terror, income inequality, and a host of other issues. A senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York, Hedges currently writes a weekly column for Truthdig. His new book investigates the psychological and social factors that foment resistance against monolithic institutions.
Recorded Jun 16, 2015
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[@pcjenkin]

When I listen to Chris Hedges, all of a sudden I feel like I'm transported back to Paris or Vienna in the early 1900's, when ideas, conversation, intellect, and civility were celebrated, instead of ridiculed, called unAmerican, dismissed as 'Woke,' or even spoke about by 'enemies of the people.' Chris Hedges isn't afraid to mention Karl Marx, or Gandhi, or Patrick Henry, or even Malcolm X in the same sentence. Chris Hedges knows that the 'proletariat' have been dumbed-down, fed a diet of violence, sex, phony religion, racism, classism, Zionism, militarism, and anti-Islam enculturation and indoctrination over the course of their lives. The eagerness in which everyone is so eager for war, reminds me of Pre-World War One.

[@AudioPervert1]

Karl Popper. Who showed everyone (those who read) the Enemies of Open Society. From Plato to Marx and beyond...

[@gnomechompsky8853]

I concur. He is a 🌟...a pinprick of light in the overwhelming gloom cast by the shadow of oligarchy poorly masquerading as democracy.

[@pcjenkin]

@Queue Eight Gracias. As you can imagine, Chris Hedges probably won't be invited on Fox News anytime soon.

[@williamtolbert8080]

I AGREE WITH YOU 100%. WE AS A PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIE TO DUMBED-DOWN, BY THE WACKOS WHO RUN THE WORLD AND THE COUNTRY. I REALLY BELIEVE WE LIVE ON A PRISON PLANET AS ALEX JONES SO EXPLAINED. CHRIS HEDGES PUT IDEAS IN IT'S PROPER PERSPECTIVE. AND LAYS A FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD AND THIS COUNTRY. IT IS DEEM GOINGS, NOT BRIGHT AT ALL. WE AS A NATION CAN NO LONGER ELECT CRIMINALS TO OFFICES OF THIS NATION. I FOR ONE DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE ELITE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. WE CAN'T A FORD TO HAVE THE RICH RULING THE COUNTRY, BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIVE IN OUR (THE MONEY LESS PEOPLE) REALITY, THEY DO NOT CONNECT WITH THE REAL WORKING STIFF IN THIS COUNTRY. THERE GREED HAS TAKEN OVER THEIR LIVES, NO MATTER THE COST. THE POLICE AND MAYORS AND GOVERNORS OF THE STATES HAVE BECOME PEACE NICKS AND VERY SOFT WHERE ANYTHING GOES. I AM AN OLD HIPPIE FROM THE SIXTY'S SO IAM NOT AGAINST PEACE NICKS IN GENERAL. BUT YOU HAVE TO PROTECT THE LAWFUL CITZENS. THERE HOMES AND BUSINESSES, AND ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THE COIN WE NEED TO START TEACHING KIDS HOW TO THINK. NOT WHAT TO THINK. ONE LOVE ONE PEACE.

[@AudioPervert1]

Yet Gandhi and Malcom X are not the same. Forget Marx. One was a hindu politician, who deeply held unto the roots of apartheid and inequality but appeared to be the Father of Nation, who embraced non-violence. The other was an african american, radical outspoken leader of sorts, inciting violence. Yet both were gunned down by people of their own country. Both were religious orthodox.

[@lamontana300]

Chris Hedges is certainly no ordinary man,willing to risk his life speaking truth against those who deceive and engage in conflicts and wars massacring innocent civilians and their children.Can righteousness prevail on it's time for ,at present,it's difficult to comprehend how all this injustice can be stopped.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

You also need to know this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e33NmIepbKd5eZY

[@MrJuanjon]

The term Christian doesn't belong to the far right, I'm a leftist and, saved according to evangelical doctrine, also speak in 👅 tongue.

[@spiceinsights]

You are a tireless servant Chris Hedges, thanks for this incredibly important work

[@masonparsaye2708]

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[@debralegorreta1375]

Invariably, at the end of his presentations some one in the audience asks, "Why the gloom and doom?" or "Is there any hope? or "Why can't you give us a plan?" or something like that. Suddenly, in 2020, they stop doing that.

[@kathleenhillock9366]

Because the "plan" has now become obvious. Revolutiin.

[@thumulaspandana6261]

Materialism,greed,ignorance is killing humanity.

[@fillyjamalama5201]

I love chris hedges!

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

He should also mention about this kzbin.info/www/bejne/e33NmIepbKd5eZY

[@pookienewjackcity5263]

Cant get enough of this man , listen to his speeches multiple times

[@sylviebalzar6097]

Chris Hedges is so brave to speak the complete truth about our society and our world today! I admire this man so much! Let us all open our ears and our minds and take in this truth and knowledge of our dire situation at this time. Blessings on all who understand.

[@lamontana300]

There is a time for knowing and then there comes a time for doing.Hopefully humanity can save itself in these unpredictable times.Chris Hedges is certainly a guiding force and inspiration,thank you for your comment.

[@vc6984]

And so now what have you done with this truth?

[@sylviebalzar6097]

@@vc6984 I've done what needed to be done to protect my family. What have you done?

[@chacheezecheesy7509]

Thank you Chris hedges, I have been woke in the last 2 years of trump. Quick story talking with my 15 yr old daughter about going to a trade school or what is after high school she replied “mom I really don’t want to talk about this right now the climate is done we have 17 months before it’s over, so I would really like to spend the time with the ppl I love and live for moment” as she was sobbing the entire time. I don’t know where she got her figured but the moment shook me, imagine being the generation of no hope and as a parent I had no answers, besides let’s go protest and resist.

[@jennak.8541]

CHACHEEZE CHEESY Its sad indeed that the generations to come have been bombarded with LIES and propaganda about the world coming to an end.. you probably don’t remember, you may be too young but if you were around I think it was the 40’s or 50’s, the world was cooling and "we were headed straight to the next ice age"..you should look up the Corbett report about "climate change" and joe cross ..Just search those words and hopefully that will inspire you to do some more research and dig a little deeper to unmask the "climate change" agenda..so you’re able to restore hope back into your daughter and hopefully educate her about how sometimes nefarious people have an agenda and enough money and influence to lie to the whole world.. As for Chriś, I cringe every time I hear him mention climate change and always wonder what his motives are behind bringing it up..

[@davegriff4900]

It was in the 70s when a small group of scientists predicted a period of global cooling due to the orbital cycles of the earth. This sort of period has been documented in history when the European settlements elements in Greenland collapsed. This predicted period of cooling has been overridden by the scale of human influence on the world. You seem to believe a small group of scientists that promote your world view while disregarding a much larger group of scientists who do not promote your views as liars. You are correct that people should do their own research. If they do they will find that you Jenna have not done a good job of exploring the information on the climate crisis.

[@dickhamilton3517]

@@davegriff4900 the siberian forests in the far north east of Russia have been on fire since the summer of 2018, go look it up. Last winter researchers found that the melted and dried-out permafrost was burning still in the winter, 20 feet and more underground. The russian government ignored the fires for the first year and a half because fires were burning over tens of thousands of acres, and they felt it was too big to tackle, but last year they had to act because the fires were staying alight all winter - they could not extinguish them, they knew, but they hoped to stop their spread - without success. The climate satellites are showing that in spite of considerable reductions in our vehicle and industrial CO2 emissions, in the last ten years in the northern hemisphere, atmospheric CO2 continues to increase, and is accelerating. Average temperatures at the pole are 5C / 9F above where they were in the 70s, peak summer air temperatures are in the 70s Fahrenheit, 50F above what they were in the 70s The greenland ice sheet is losing billions of tons of ice (cubic miles) every year. When one tenth of it is lost, New York city and Florida will be more than 3feet underwater permanently. Go look up the fires and learn something, and give up spouting the lies you have been fed.

[@dickhamilton3517]

the last should have for Jenna. I clicked on the wrong msg, somehow

[@dickhamilton3517]

@@davegriff4900 sorry 'bout that, but I'm typing on a tablet, and there's no easy way to change/redirect it.

[@IrishDimsum77]

No one so powerfully elucidates the realities of our failing democracy and Empire in such a hauntingly accurate way. His sage examinations validate what so many of us witness and feel in a manner few achieve. I am always honored to hear him speak.

[@vc6984]

Yes it’s so nice for someone to step back and say”look at what is or is happening”. Yet have no action to make a change. “Write a book and you Can be a millionaire too” Bernie Sanders. So Hedges writes books and live off the corporate world. Where is the community he said needs to be started?

[@VoodooDewey69]

Mr. Hedges is a truly remarkable and brilliant man that should be part of the mainstream media and should be recognized for his insights and how to fix humankind.

[@steppenwolf3252]

Not the mainstream media owned by Billionaires

[@lauraw.7008]

“Possessed by a vision” something in them makes it impossible to compromise: capacity to live in truth when you face despotic power.

[@sjmcn500]

This is from about 2015 yes?

[@Apodeipnon]

Yes

[@steppenwolf3252]

You can easily answer your own question. I did. It's fun!

[@Larkinchance]

Corporate power does recognize that the police are a weak link.. This is the basis of (“Toys for Cops”) The common practice of the military giving local and city police gifts of guns, hardware and ammunition.. This forges a bond of loyalty between police and the military and drives a wedge between police and the communities they serve...

[@lauraw.7008]

1:06:49 😮 James Luther Adams. I didn’t know about him! Next: Concentric circles, building sustainable, ethical life.

[@daleowens7695]

When can we tear it down?

[@bicyclist2]

Now!

[@steppenwolf3252]

When we have something to build up in its place that's better

[@RickRice]

Does anyone know the name of the German author to whom Hedges referred near the end? Thanks

[@Jae_Cee]

at 1:13:41 Hedges talks about Klaus Theweleit and his 1977 book Male Fantasies

[@FranzN57]

The German author is Klaus Theweleit. Hedges refers to his book 'Männerphantasien'. English edtion: 'Male Fantasies'.

[@mattcalza4199]

44:00 a (successful) modern revolution is GLOBAL in scope: the human chain reaction must spread faster than the repression can close in. -Ken Knabb

[@bicyclist2]

I thought the Occupy Wall Street protests were the start of the end of the old system and the beginning of a new one. I protested at my state capital. Unfortunately it didn't pan out. The George Floyd protests aren't what we need either, and Black lives matter has become very Marxist. Thanks.

[@mattcalza4199]

11:00 Hedges says "spectacle society" but I've NEVER heard him say anything about Situationists existing. Ken Knabb wrote "the Joy of Revolution" in 1997, 88 pages that radically changed this young leftists worldview. Necessary.

[@alexcarter8807]

Starts at 5:30

[@koismiah30]

Safe

[@tombradburn3935]

The introduction was a work of art.

[@pullmanjr]

"The House of the Dead" by Dostoyevsky. Pardon few hours before execution for planning to assassination of the Tsar. Escape latter to write some of his best novels.

[@philgwellington6036]

A brilliant and prescient analysis of the terminal state the Disunited States is in. It almost seems unreal, but it is very real for an increasingly large number of people... It's almost an Orwellian trap where you are not aware of being trapped, and therefore can't conceive of an exit, or escape.A self imposed slavery, you can't imagine an alternative. Thank you Chris.

[@philgwellington6036]

@fluoxy L. Yes, and no and yes, but I was curious about my education. And still am. U?

[@triggerwarning8240]

Unplug from the matrix.....letjusticebedone.com

[@Apodeipnon]

He's a fellow vegan! ❤️ To me that is similarly important to socialism

[@guillermodelatorre8592]

when the democratic party moves to the right - it pushes the right wing party farther to the right - it becomes insane - Chris hedges.

[@felixdevilliers1]

I HOPE CHRIS HEDGES WILL SEE THIS. This video goes back to 2019, so who will still read the comments? I tend to avoid long videos as I have to fit them into my day. Once I fell asleep at my computer and the videos just go oin from one to the next. I woke up to the miracle of an eloquen poetic speech by a man who knows everything, so I love him as I do Rosa Luixemburg. Another interesting figure in the past is John Ruskin. He decided at about the same time as Marx that he had to investigate the ecomnomics underlying the arts. Like Marx, he made mince meat of the established economists. Ruskin accepted capitalism but added that its only function should be to produce human riches and that if it multiplied itself for its own sake we were in the shit - the last word is mine.

[@steppenwolf3252]

You can always rewind (and get more sleep)

[@CrucialSpeaks]

I just love the knowledge and sanity of this guy as he is speaking truth to power!!

[@hazelhearty4940]

War is a force! A must watch Chris Hedges.

[@charlie3134]

1:12: Very prescient of Hedges. Too bad the resistance never grew. If it happens now, the battle will be that much more difficult.

[@eileenmc4746]

it starts now

[@steppenwolf3252]

There was and is resistance. Any moment lost makes it more difficult but all the more necessary

[@pappapaps]

5:30 intro skip service

[@seipher_8334]

In these situations people always go what can we do its hopeless. BULLSH!T!! We have always had the power! We are what feeds these corporations! Our money we spend is what makes their power viable! If we banded together against a corporation we did not agree with and collectively quit buying their crap POOF!! Corporation disappears! But we are divided, leaderless and distracted by bread and circus!

[@a3zan]

What makes us human are people like Chris!

[@lauraw.7008]

43:08 “revolutions are fundamentally non-violent. When the soldiers join the people. No will to support a propped up regime.” Thank you. 46:24 longer state refuses to address fixing, the more radicalized the affected people become. 49:26 100billion on surveillance supports corporate strength. Power is consuming itself.

[@lauraw.7008]

55:05 open casket - Emmet Till style.

[@fredoctober292]

I think we can gage our success a a species, by how many Chris Hedges we have in the world.

[@steppenwolf3252]

Each of us has a role to play in our success.

[@suzt1029]

Yes. Agree. But what will we do? I have long thought that we need a revolution. How can we influence the disenfranchised to pay attention to what is happening? When so many have already been forced into hand to mouth lives, unable to save $400 for emergencies, when there is no real public television and radio, when celebrity is the only thing that grabs the attention of these folks, how can we help to make change?

[@mattcalza4199]

We must experiment.

[@margaretpocock2249]

what is the truth regarding the effects of 5G (radioactivity).

[@steppenwolf3252]

We need civil disobedience and uniting the masses.

[@thagenet]

He says it 5 years ago and now it happening. 100%

[@eileenmc4746]

heck yes

[@davidcollins8150]

Actually 10/23/2013 precisely where he gave a speech Comparing Melville's Moby Dick to today's Societal failures - if you have not watched - one of his best

[@vc6984]

Accept its Antifa and BLM and other leftest re writing history. BLM and Antifa are corporate tools destroy common people’s livelihoods. The 1619 project a complete rewrite of history. Female Candidate for VP praising a person who sexually assaulted a woman claiming she was proud of him because he was shot after resisting arrest. And Hedges has demonized the ChristiN right because they are against the whole sale slaughter of babies. Why not be ones words for people who advocated the death of babies up to Nine months and after bring born or even partial birth. Sure become a vegan and purchase all the corporate processed foods and imported foods. Purchasing local and grass fed or local farm raised meat does not destroy the world. Learn your science animals are essential to maintain life on this planet. Lots of vegans eat corporate process foods. Up until recently Hedges worked for the wealthy elite. Yes and most people who end up on death row are poor. It’s is a shame that the black gang and drug dealers are not there also . “The system”. Did not create those people. Plenty of people from poor neighborhoods do not choose to murder, rape , steal, and deal drugs. The victim propaganda he peddles is discussing. He is doing just fine in this supposed evil corporate world. So clearly it is not as bad as he claims. Marx was a racist. Malcom x was no hero and was murdered by his own fellow black separatist Nation of Islam people.

[@Casabeconcarne]

Excellent. Thanks for your kindness and effort.

[@margaretpocock2249]

how do you eradicate "the manipulation of despair"; which of your books describes the depravity of pornography ?

[@bernie4268]

That was in America the farewell tour.

[@steppenwolf3252]

With the willingness and resolve of all humans

[@anderslarsen4912]

"Power concedes nothing without a demand"......

[@bdm1000]

Pine Ridge, SD has THE lowest life expectancy for men at 48 years of age (and I presume women) as Haiti's is 61.3 for men and 65.7 for women.

[@pullmanjr]

Mussolini coined the word fascism in 1917 as "reactionary corporatism"

[@Scyllax]

No. He plagiarized it from Michael Polanyi from his reorganization plan for The Fiat Motor Company in the 1920’s.

[@Apodeipnon]

He did write the doctrine of fascism which is interesting if you want to understand how mussolini thought of it

[@Scyllax]

@@Apodeipnon He didn’t. He stole it.

[@CyberspacedLoner]

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth, a polluted and contaminated desolate wasteland

[@mattyg337ify]

Best introduction of all time!!

[@gaylewells3078]

The tide is turning and quickly on both sides. Their mistake was to not take any air out of this tire as their greed wouldn't allow it. Now all is on the line. I can only have hope in the good of the people of this country it will bring a reckoning that will bring sanity to the center.

[@pullmanjr]

Kropotkin wrote about prisons in Russia, France and Turkey.

[@Stadtpark90]

starts at 5:43

[@carlb.4097]

Spend it or loose it yesss. True benevolence ❤️ funding eachother not for profit. Prisons and illness as a product is pure criminal 🤕🤪 I was raised Unitarian

[@miropribanic5581]

for those interested: 1:13:32: Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies. orig. 1977, engl. 1987.

[@ktm7117]

If only so called Christian leaders can be like Chris Hedges the world would have being better place, this lovely man Eventhough he is a wise man and strong believer yet he can maneuver and knows the problems of having loyalty to religion or a country but just pure human being.

[@felixdevilliers1]

A question was once asked on the net about who you considered as a hero - I think they meant in the political world. I wrote that I didn't have one but that If I had to name a hero, it would be Chris Hedges. I have a heroine in the past; Rosa Luxemburg. I would have folloewed her unto death; her integrity was incorruptible. I'm glad Hedges mentioned her.

[@felixdevilliers1]

The man who inrtroduced Mr, Hedges said he had investigated pornographìy and found that it belonged to the evils of the capitlalist world.Correct? I think I understand what he means. I have no objection to pornoigraohy in itself, but I don't watch that which is available on the net.. I find it unerotic. It is genitally fixated and mechanical, nothing but pumping. It is commeciailised sex. In a way, it has a kind of impotence about it.

[@NikoHL]

Speaking truth to Power. If only our Client Media did the same.

[@ethericboy]

Things are going to shit because soon somethings gotta give; wether its the collapse of the ecosystems,economy and/or war within the next 9 years life as we know it will end and chaos will follow

[@YouTubeCareerist]

5:50 skip intro - not that it was bad ❤️

[@dasssjam7413]

Thank u Mr Chris Hedges, i am disciplinaire principale and honest man, struggle made mi seen the theater of lies i have lost my brothers and sisters for to be honest what they dont like to hear the truth, now i am 59 years old and had a stroke and paralize my right side of my body, but i live positief with my lady angel and two childeren boy and girl and i am happy with the little what whe have, in this mad world with no fear, fight for the good things in live, live honest and die honest,, i love all humankind,my love regards, Mr Chris Hedges is speciaal,!! real human!!!

[@TS-00]

As main stream CIA psy op viral television programming entraps billions of innocent sheep 🐑 with global deception.

[@bicyclist2]

Amen!

[@revup5198]

The tele got nothin on Facebook and Twitter. 👁️

[@diabolicaldebbie]

Chris Hedges should be a guest on banned.video and infowars.com

[@haydenwayne3710]

Spot on!

[@meghan42]

War suck,s. We can all agree.

[@steppenwolf3252]

So let's quit doing it and funding it then. We can all agree.

[@fabiocardoso7194]

Chris Hedges is a national treasure!

[@TS-00]

Pen ✒️ is Mightier than Sword ⚔️🗡️⚔️. 🔏. 👁️☯️👁️

[@bicyclist2]

Agreed. I tell people that all the time.

[@robertcartwright8165]

Isn't the full quote something like "Under the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword"? The present rulers are far from entirely great.

[@quantumthinker3248]

Mr Hedges, thanks

[@robertrichard6107]

HOMELAND over all us!

[@spiceinsights]

I believe he speaking to now where it is already too late

[@kathleenhillock9366]

I am probably the same age as your grandmother, but will say this. It is not too late. Both Dems and Reps represent parasitic Corporate elites in D.C. Voting will change nothing. The time has come for a very uncomfortable costly revolution. It has already started, but will not climax until later this year. Be ready.

[@spiceinsights]

Kathleen Hillock I believe you. I guess by too late I mean too late to save the system we have

[@vc6984]

@@kathleenhillock9366 Get ready for what. Are you expecting some leader from the fog to appear. Hedges was running for political office to live off tax payers. He did not start that corporate proof community he spoke of. When you say get ready YOU better have a plan.

[@steppenwolf3252]

Never too late

[@vidamace6230]

Why people don’t do this is unthinkable

[@steppenwolf3252]

It takes time, energy and work...and Corporations are built to divide and conquer us

[@arianedowell4184]

Thank you for all you do....

[@serecip770]

"In the end, I don't fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because I don't like fascism."

[@njosborne6152]

Everything has changed. This Administration can and will deport whoever they wish. AND We have now become shuttered to the world With another temple of humanity crumbling We shall now, at the behest of Our highly corrupt, Majical Supreme Court We, are whisked away to the Good ‘ol Days of pre-enlightenment. The Imperial presidency has begun to flower❗️

[@tomallen5837]

ugh. In Q&A, he's saying that he doesn't think anyone left or right would be in any way tolerant of the corporate looting that occurred in '08... Here we are... We've been looted again

[@steppenwolf3252]

Corporations would be tolerant of it and it's up to everyone to stand up and say NO!

[@andreacvecic]

55:08?

[@raphaellavelasquez8144]

I want to clone Chris Hedges and have him investigate NAMI.

[@bicyclist2]

NAMI? Please explain.

[@steppenwolf3252]

Spread the word and that will accomplish your goal

[@lindataylor6831]

Very interesting. Thank you for this video.

[@lone263]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results!

[@leburnmaddox3532]

Absolute Truth Be Told.

[@CrucialSpeaks]

Yes we need some farms!

[@kathryngannon485]

Bill Gates is buying them all.

[@benjaminhughes2226]

I wonder if I'm the only viewer that also is a Daily Wire subscriber... but I never got smarter by listening to anyone I agree with. one similarity I get from this that I've often heard as well by Tim Pool.... we Americans think we're somehow immune to political collapse. Normalcy Bias is the anesthesia that'll keep us under until we wake up in the middle of open heart surgery.

[@lepidoptera9337]

Is America immune to political collapse? No. Does it mean that we should actively want one?

[@gregleroy1]

👍🏼✊🏼✌🏼

[@Inpreesme]

the video starts at five minutes and 30 seconds, you can thank me later

[@steppenwolf3252]

There's plenty of video before that so why should you be thanked exactly, Kevin?

[@mikeporro3311]

If u are a Conservative and think he is picking on u stick around he will get to the left as well. No one running afoul escapes the wrath of this compassionate man.

[@sabar2453]

I cried at the story at 57.00

[@L.Dex.A]

Me too.

[@bzert281]

Our closest analog to Jeremiah today

[@garrettchristensen8074]

Chris Hedges triggers the right people 👍

[@haydenwayne3710]

Thank God, another adult in the room!

[@homelessgamerxx9982]

Chris I'm ready , dallas tx, let me know

[@lauraw.7008]

49:05 too bad we couldn’t force the banks to just break even.

[@traviswadezinn]

Excellent talk, thank you

[@UmarAlFarooq]

Amazing talk

[@the-livingkrystal-marinyma5117]

When I listen to You I am so encouraged to stand up as well i have a method that can and will free many people of jail. and foster care and police brutality and you have brought tears to my eyes

[@annefox3353]

Chris hedged

[@TS-00]

Vision must exist as common sense justice. Rape 💉, murder and oppression, particularly for 💰 of any other soul, begs immediate imprisonment. To be tried within the ICC. Guilty until proven innocent. Free Julian Assange

[@eileenmc4746]

my god, he could have given this lecture this past week. june 2020 as george floyd protests continue . we needed him to run for congress but can't have his on contact show as well.

[@serecip770]

Important lessons for all rebels

[@mhkpt]

When TV is full of hacks, shills, and liars, screaming the most ridiculous bullshit at the top of their lungs, and a voice like Chris Hedges is ignored. Fucking tragic.

[@stephenbailey9969]

Mr. Hedges has a real moral viewpoint, and that is to be applauded. But his analysis of class in American society is of the most banal and vulgar kind. It is based more on attitude than on a real consideration of the historically contingent circumstances on which America is based. You can't slap European realities wholesale onto American political development, nor European programs onto American systems of governance. You can't slap European Green environmentalism on top of a class analysis and think all the pieces are going to meld. The needs of the average working person don't necessarily mix with the concerns of bourgeois intellectuals. In the end, his prescriptions involve a mass adoption of radical ideology, rather than the incremental evolution of society in all of its sectors into a greater consciousness of our commonality, into a greater recognition that democracy is the best methodology around which to structure society. Lefties in the US are sadly drawn to the revolutionary romanticism of the early Marx, to the simplistic division of all politics into good and evil, heroes and demons. That's why they burn out so quickly and sell themselves to the marketplace, soothing their hurts with material pursuits. Even Michael Harrington ended up with a more consensus building, incremental approach to progressive reform. Change through the evolutionary process of small pressures, through the public choosing change rather than that forced from above. Democracy arrives when people learn how to do it.

[@vc6984]

I have scene that many of the so called progressives are not really willing to do the work for “change”. Their idea of change is “ I want”. I do not know how to get it and I do not want to sacrifice for it either. So someone else do it for me or I throw a tantrum.

[@steppenwolf3252]

With your help we will arise

[@deconry]

The problem with democracy is humanity and its manifold issues.....greed, corruption, narcissism, and delusional ideologies.

[@CrucialSpeaks]

Learn what we are REALLY dealing with. HINT! IT IS NOT DIFFERENCE IN SKIN COLOR - IT IS NOT PARTY STUFF - IT IS PROBABLY NOTHING YOU WOULD EVER THINK! -STUDY BEFORE YOU VOTE! YOU WILL BE SURPRISED HOW "YOU" WILL FIT INTO THIS!

[@steppenwolf3252]

Money

[@mariaelenajarrin246]

Amen but what’s the plan Sam??

[@petesweet8504]

Resistance, Resistance, Resistance on everything Fascist!

[@steppenwolf3252]

That's up to us all, Maria

[@debralegorreta1375]

This time around there ain't no FDR to save the rich...

[@steppenwolf3252]

Then we need to demand one

[@tracemiller9628]

Dead on truth, without a doubt!!!!

[@gh778jk]

This lecture starts on a bum note, where in the introduction, religious faith is depicted as a virtue, not the delusion it, in reality is. Calling Sam Harris 'hapless' is just a a very dumb and silly comment. I have seen this man debate both Harris and the greatly missed and lamented Hitchens, and every time Mr Hedges got his read-end handed to him in a rather swift and pleasant manner . That all said, I agree with a lot, if not most of his points. It is just a pity that with a painful regularity, it is made out that atheists aren't coming to the same conclusions as Mr Hedges (or a Cornell West for that matter) without the illusionary help from an imagined friend.(this remark is based on his entire oeuvre of writing and several talks/lectures I watched, not just this one) It would make him a great speaker and author, if he would understand that what motivates someone to see reality as it is in society, is a of no importance at all. As it stands, I know a lot more secularists that have spoken to this and wrote to this, coming to similar conclusions. I am also not shy in admitting that the stance he takes, given his nationality and circumstances, is a brave and dangerous one. But It may be more productive to build bridges with all those who have similar views and insights, rather than kick the shins of people that would stand shoulder to shoulder with him .... Paddy

[@steppenwolf3252]

Speaking the truth is not kicking anyone in the shins--except those who are a blight on us. We can hold different views and still have one shared goal of improving all people's lives

[@gh778jk]

@@steppenwolf3252 It is..., since a great many of the issues he , justifiably, exposes are a direct result of the actions, mindset and stance of those he will not denounce, whatever they do. Meanwhile Hedges will keep rationalists as "the enemy" in his sights. This, while they are exactly the ones that have been warning about this for ages. I am glad he has finally 'seen some flickerings of light' , but it is a shame that he keeps insisting that he has his own "set of facts" even though they aren't factual. This is a known problem of the faithful, even when they see the detriment their stance brings forth.... they will try 'to save you...even if it kills you' Hedges expresses his disappointment that American Christians (as a general term) aren't more reasonable and will not see the error of some of their ways. He refuses, however , to recognise that it is exactly the mercantile Protestantism, taken to its extremest forms in the US, which is the exact cause of the situation he laments. And preaching 'unity' is all well and good, but this will not happen as long as the faithful refuse to understand that an open and free civilisation demands that privately held are just that...private. The very moment a step is taken to translate any part of theology to binding Law, you're already plummeting towards a theocracy. Which, at this stage, the US , de facto, is. Either the faithful truly understand that freedom of religion first and foremost means freedom from religion or the American experiment is indeed lost.... Thomas Jefferson saw this coming, but wasn't forthright or even brutal enough in his prescribments. He should be compulsory reading for everyone who holds the US nationality or anybody who claims to be a friend of the US. Paddy

[@deconry]

What an incredible and profound comment. Thank you for your insights. As an atheist who was once a deacon, I always wondered about Hedges beliefs coming out of seminary. Regardless, Chris is an gigantic intellect and fearless expository genius on so many levels.

[@gh778jk]

@@deconry I completely agree with your assessment of his cognitive and academic capacities. His oratory skills remind me of the fire and brimstone preachings of Luther and Calvin... but on real life subjects. That is something that I can only appreciate. Now if he would only get one more small insight.... he can not live in two worlds and stay honest. It's one or the other. And for his sake I truly hope he does. We all know that sitting on a very spiky fence, no matter how noble your intentions are, will be, sooner or later, an excruciatingly painful experience.. Paddy

[@Dream-bebe]

Chris Hedges: God bless you!! You tell the truth. You give me a fighting spirit.

[@pkpapers]

What about China?

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

Really not a problem.

[@steppenwolf3252]

What about it?

[@sylviahammond6979]

I 💘 you my brother .

[@juancananey8348]

HEDGES FOR PRESIDENT!!

[@steppenwolf3252]

All Americans for President. No one man should tell us all what to do or how to live