Noam Chomsky - Propaganda and the Economy

[@None0fYourBusiness]

He described the world in 2018 perfectly.

[@Rayhuntter]

He described the world.

[@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21]

fuck yes . goddamn genius right there, still today .

[@mazxbv]

it is not surprising in the slightest, it's the same political structure; keep things the way they are. Chomsky has said it time and time again, it's not foresight, it has been happening for a long time.

[@marcdellorusso180]

Yes, he certainly did.

[@rolyars]

2023 even more so

[@pbbrown1963]

That just about sums it up. Thanks, Dr. Chomsky.

[@martinosanmartin9523]

I've seen days on Chomsky's lectures and never have I seen an ad on any of his videos. That tells you something

[@longlakeshore]

"Five hundred" cable channels back then but today it's the tsunami of content on Netflix, Prime, AppleTV and all other streaming services. Pacify the masses.

[@Stijlloosert]

his sources are always hard to get, and interesting like records of important meetings. it is clear to me long time ago. decentralization of power. City states model. And those trillion dollar families and companies, must be identified, recognized, confronted and extinguished. blow it all to history. Children everybody, to make the statement relevant for future screamers... this is more than they deserve. As always we most collaborate, and that needs wisdom, truth, momentum , leadership, courage and little bit of luck.

[@drewjones1346]

fascinating to watch in 2022

[@eggyparrot3844]

He's right. Shit I need to spend less time on youtube

[@picinek]

Noam Chomsky talks on totalitarian culture in a free society on October 1, 1993

[@GazaFloatilla]

Chomsky has some really good hand gestures.

[@ariss3304]

It's because he's not talking to persuade

[@gabeanthony1366]

Genius as always

[@danieltownhead7862]

When was this?

[@Vifnis]

4:45 basically transkids rights

[@omarmahfouz5599]

?

[@charliec6036]

‘National league football’

[@economy4mankind]

From which year is this?

[@prjgrudge]

1989

[@rjung_ch]

@@prjgrudge and it's still true today even worse. He's the man. Period. He'll turn 90 on Friday. And he's still on top of it all.

[@nikolademitri731]

Robert Jung hey, thanks for this. For some reason I thought he was already in his 90s, but now that you mention it, I recall watching a video or perhaps it was reading an article, about his turning 40 before the most tumultuous year of the 60s, 1968, came to a close. It’s crazy, he was born in Philly, at the tale end of a reactionary but prosperous decade, barely a year old when we plunged into the Great Depression, which he lived through as a youngster, becoming a young man and starting university by the end of WW2 and the birth of the nuclear age. He saw Kennedy killed in his early 30s, then experienced the civil rights era and Vietnam protest firsthand from his early 30s to mid 40s, turning 50 just as Jimmy Carter was elected, and the 70s came to a messy and exhausting close. In his early 50s up through his late 60s he saw the decline start to set in with the postmodern, neoliberal era fully blossom under Reagan, HW Bush, and the first white “black president”, turning 70 right before the millennium/century ended. In his early-mid 70s he sees a buffoon propelled to the presidency by reactionary, quite literally militant, evangelicals, 9/11, the birth of the security/police state, and the launching of “never ending” wars, turning 80 just as neoliberal capitalism finally implodes. That same year, he sees the first actual black president elected, and though he saves neoliberal capitalism via corporate welfare, he fails to deliver such welfare or wellbeing to the people, sadly just more of the same.. He lives through all of this, a roller coaster of a life, seeing some of the greatest wins for the American people, but unfortunately seeing far more losses for them, and for the world. Then, in the two years leading up to his 90th birthday, he sees Trump elected, almost definitely the worst president we’ve ever had, and maybe worse: far right authoritarianism, not seen since the fascist rise that took place in his youth, bubbling up all over the world. Only 2 months before this man turns 90, he declares our current day and age to not only be the worst time for humanity in his lifetime, but arguably in all of human history, as we now almost completely ignore ecological collapse, the greatest existential thread we’ve ever faced. I mean, what the fuck, world?! I know I really went at length combing over his life, but I just can’t wrap my fucking mind around what that must feel like, and how sad these realities must make him, despite the hope that does exist on the silver lining.. I can barely express how terrified I am when, as a young leftist who’s desperate to be part of the generation that finally addresses the contradictions of postmodern late capitalism, I hear him say that this is literally the worst, despite everything he’s been through. Chomsky, for many of us, was our first exposure to a lot of key leftist thought and criticism, and so we cherish him, and in a way that I’m sure he’d disapprove of. After all, the “great man of history” take on the past is bullshit, and it’s no different for the present, but I just have such great respect and love for the guy, and as stupid as it may be, I feel some obligation to be successful in our organizing and actions to show him that we’re going to win.. Honestly, I just really want him to live long enough to see the current threats be neutralized, and to see leftists everywhere start winning in such a way that really does give humanity hope for the future, whatever that will look like. Anyway, I digress.. Happy bday to him, and may many more come, until we have the tech to extend his life well past the “revolution”, and make him proud of humanity before he shuffles off this mortal coil.. 🏴✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾🚩

[@charlieq4255]

Long live Chomsky! Psychology, behavior economics, political science and so many other theories and tools are so strong to influence people and manipulate their choices. Populism is the worst fruit from it!

[@911ruinedbrendanfraserscar5]

where is the original lecture its like his most important talk??

[@MrFlinchenstein]

its called totalitarian culture in a free society from oct 1 1993

[@hedgedrisk]

Thank you

[@dmoceo]

does chomsy like cat girls?

[@muhamadhamdy6576]

There will forever be the rich and the poor. That simply cannot be changed. And rich people will also always get richer way faster than poor people, therefore wealth will always fall in the hands of the 1%. And money buys connections, power and influence. So the 1% elite will always end up having the upper hand in everything. No one can change that. Communism tried and failed. So its best to keep people distracted to have more stability.

[@Nevio197]

It's a false assumption that just because something has once failed it can never succeed in the future. Marxism-Leninism failed (maybe it could have succeed under different external circumstances) , but that does not mean we should just sit on our sofa and let the elite goes away with it. And for what regard the stability: the stability of the state is itself unjust if the state measbeaved towards its citizens.

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

Muhamed. In fact we know that these things can be reversed and are reversed in many societies for extended periods of time. Why those times can not be extended over several generations instead of one is what we should investigate and work on.

[@economy4mankind]

There is a third way beyond capitalism and communism, called Economic Balance System