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Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
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Transcript by Linda Kristiansen (drive.google.com/file/d/1makb...)
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Chomsky's views on consciousness and free will (and marijuana)
6:04 Views on "God" (do you believe in it? how do you define it?)
8:02 Chomsky's views on Moral Relativism vs Objectivism
9:55 Views on mythology, and religious upbringing
13:30 Personal story on Chomsky's childhood (religion is based on the assumption that "God is an idiot")
17:53 True Christianity is pacifism and the US squelched Liberation Theology
22:12 The most important activism is the liberation of the poor
24:02 Where does Neoliberalism come from and what's it maintained by?
30:40 Having a job is placing yourself under the control of an autocrat, worse than Stalin
36:48 What can be done to make education more democratic?
39:32 The Neoliberal "crisis"
42:20 Do schools run counter to our evolutionary "learning instinct"?
49:00 What's wrong with Illich's "de-schooling"?
52:15 Why not allow multiple competing school systems?
54:52 The problems with Charter Schools
57:36 Is there such a thing as too much openness / diversity / equality? (thoughts on Black Lives Matter)
1:00:28 Chomsky was afraid of being imprisoned. Why didn't it happen?
1:01:38 The war crimes of Trump
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