Noam Chomsky - Genesis to End Times - Q&A

A Chomsky lecture, followed by ZMI student questions. In this 5 hous session he talks about the foundations of the USA empire, to the Middle East today, US foreign policy, climate war and climate change, financialisation carbon trading, social and technical problems, Israel-Palestine, climate change, local currencies, fractional reserves, debt, Ron Paul, geo-engineering, mass-transit, Los Angeles, factory occupations, Parecon, Arundhati Roy on Moaist rebels and tribals and much more.
Date: June 11, 2010

[@TheLockon00]

Three hour Chomsky Q+A that I've never seen before? Looks like I'm staying up late tonight!

[@iamdk007]

The first answer was just perfect. I'm gonna add to it anyway. The way he said it was as though he was saying, chill, be cool about it, why are you building all this up and what are you building it up to. Start applying all these words and concepts instead of spending all your time formulating them. How do you know unless you apply them and learn from them? And words change. Same old problems we'v had, have and always will, there's no final solution, you have to handle the problems in the moment

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

thanks for uploading.

[@copym3]

@Orthodoxcrusader you are very much welcome! it makes me really happy to hear that you can use it and it keeps me going! thaks a lot for your support, if you want anything speazial uploaded or you know somebody who is interessting but gets nit very much attention i am happy to help there... wish you all the best archit3kt

[@thecapitalist1502]

Interesting talk, except that Paul Volcker wasn't treasury secretary he was Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Professor Chomsky in his talk talks about neo liberalism and capitalism in one breath and at the same acknowledging cronyism isnt the same as capitalism without actually saying it. interesting.

[@hevneren1545]

"In 1963, he became deputy under secretary for monetary affairs. He returned to Chase Manhattan Bank as vice president and director of planning in 1965. Appointed by the Nixon Administration, Volcker served under secretary of the Treasury for international monetary affairs from 1969 to 1974." "Served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987"

[@s0673451]

copym, where do you get all these great videos?

[@EDVAC01]

for some reason, it won't let me paste in the link, but just search this: Occupy Quincy Teach In: Part 1 of 3

[@cciemail]

can someone please give me the link to the video the lady mentions at the end? seriously, please. I just youtubed "Steve Meacham" and I got some weird video of a guy in his underwear (obviously the wrong guy!).

[@GoLetItInGoBagItUp]

@mikallr People hate to be ruled. Most researchers nowadays thinks people are not made to be ruled. Many hunter & gatherers don't even have a word for boss in their own language.

[@ISMEY]

hate is a strong word......more that he considers Ron Paul's policy's off the wall.....essentially crazy.

[@copym3]

@s0673451 mostly from my harddrive =) where i collected nearly on terra byte of great talks and documentary over the years! this particular video is from vimeo.com ! wish you all the best Archit3kt

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

Comments can't be edited; they can be /deleted/--as i said--and reposted. Again, if you're going to be insulting, at least make sense. You accuse me of supposedly misinterpreting your words as directed at me, yet you clearly were talking to me, i.e. "you." then you whine about sarcasm when i point this out. odd. you can whine about "intellectual maturity," or you can back up your inflammatory rhetoric and name-calling with some actual substance....

[@ElectricChaplain]

@sfasf sfafsa: homeowners they screwed, is humanitarian? The wealthiest nation on the Earth, yet one of the least among developed countries in quality of life and income equality, is humanitarian? What are you on?

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

ditto

[@HanzSygnal]

@tstruss912 true. and judging from your comments, you straight gangster to my brother. LET FREEDOM RING.

[@mmcdonald043]

The main problem I see with this video is that at the end, people still depend on one person (Chomsky) to tell them what to do instead of taking the initiative and figuring it out for themselves. People won't be free because they always, always return themselves to subjugation. Revolutions are just transitions between one ruler and the next.

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

[my capitalization]

[@GoLetItInGoBagItUp]

@mmcdonald043 Wrong. People hate to be ruled. Most research thinks people are not made to be ruled. Many hunter & gatherers don't even have a word for boss in their own language.

[@sgt7]

I don't know of anybody who claims that they like to be ruled. So I agree with you. However many people believe that authority (or "ruler-ship") is still a good thing sometimes. I don't like having the police telling me what to do. But I am happy that they're there to protect me from criminals. I don't like laws telling me to slow down on the road but I know that they're good because some people will drive at crazy speeds that could result in the death of some innocent person. Some, like myself, obey laws and law makers not because we like the laws but because we know that they will create a better environment for everyone.

[@flyingpants]

@tstruss912 gangster indeed.

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

Someone's angry. Do you legitimately believe that using inflammatory rhetoric and name-calling proves your point? Quite the opposite. "We are in a period of corporatization of power, consolidation of power, centralization. That's supposed to be good if you're a progressive, like a Marxist-Leninist. Out of that same background came three major things: fascism, Bolshevism, and corporate tyranny. They all grew out of the same more or less Hegelian roots. It's fairly recent."

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

If you're going to be insulting, at least have it make sense. You said: "YOU think his version is somehow from Hegel, or Hitler, someone else maybe?"--then you said "The fact that you translated my words as accusations against you, shows you need work on your reading comprehension". If I'm not the "you", then who exactly were you talking to? He isn't a "Marxist in disguise"--there is a difference between libertarian socialism / anarcho-syndicalism / social anarchism and Marxism...

[@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

Again, you've clearly never read his harsh critique of Marxism; he has described Marx as a "highly authoritarian activist"--not a "crazy person" as you claim--because of Marx's desire for a State composed of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" (which is ultimately replaced by a Stateless society). you're accusing me of thinking that Chomsky's belief system is somehow based on /Hitler/? where do you get this nonsense? do you have any evidence, or /anything/, to back up your wild claims?