Noam Chomsky: "The Emerging World Order: its roots, our legacy"

On September 17, 2012, Noam Chomsky held a public lecture with the title "The Emerging World Order: its roots, our legacy" at Politeama Rossetti in Trieste.

[@salasvalor01]

This setting looks like Noam Chomsky is a fashion designer.

[@Kenneth_the_Philosopher]

He is wearing black velco strapped shoes! How chic!

[@EHDROCK]

Wow. Just looking at him gives me goose bumps. Brilliance at its finest. And he is an American!!!!!

[@bertjesklotepino]

Yeah................. Original American indeed. "Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[24] His father was William "Zev" Chomsky, an Ashkenazi Jew originally from Ukraine who had fled to the United States in 1913. " That you even dare call him an American. And what is brilliant? Mentioning something which was already written in the newspapers in 1940? Wauw, brilliant.

[@tobsvonmittelstraum2300]

I like being waken up by a slow patient voice. That's why I think his voice is a good one for waking up the world

[@ariadne.thread]

The most frightening thing of all is that even Chomsky, with all of his truly exceptional knowledge and eloquence, his one hundred books and countless public talks, is powerless. He will go down in history as one who analyzed and predicted with crystal clarity but could change nothing.

[@dalisabe62]

Very sad indeed. Who rules the world is the most aggressive not the brightest or most righteous.

[@waltertheartist2746]

Noam is more important to our survival than Noah, and he's real, so amazing.

[@etell221]

Noam Chomsky will go down in history as one of the greatest thinkers of all time.

[@mwilliamson4198]

Fascinating, wide-ranging lecture. Very informative. Thanks for posting

[@musick2138]

Thanks for the valuable upload and Namasté Chomsky !

[@corcaighrebel]

The Q&A with Chomsky is often the highlight of such talks.

[@OpalSociety]

I loved the way that every commentary is a wall text with your "I dunno" in the middle.

[@whenindoubtdo]

Your comment is a work of art. I will copy it and remember it always.

[@gh1zu]

Thank you for uploading it! antony,Taiwan

[@steviebkhall]

Thanks for posting .

[@bighistoria]

a great summary of his on going critique of us foreign policy and the dominance of the corporations in us and the world

[@littleflags]

Love the graphic at the beginning.

[@JD12ish]

This just happened so close to me and I didn't know?! DAMN IT! Thanks for the upload though.

[@Gufberg]

Noam chomsky lecture in HD? YES BABY! Now all i need is a one-on-one debate between Chomsky and Zizek and i can be happy :D

[@arlinegeorge6967]

As humans we have individuals like Noam time n time again bringing awareness to people with power. Hopefully great leaders like Dalai Lama will have a greater impact on humanity. Teaching humans at Tashi Namgyal Academy school jointly. Hope is there to dream. Might is right, ganging up and compelling individuals will be proved wrong by the leader Dalai Lama. His wisdom has already proven great in Sikkim my prayers to humans. Love and peace to all

[@t3mpl3guardian]

That is the most chilling implication in the whole matter. We have lost a group of free thinking people in this nation. They are still lost in the year 2001. It seems, even during current events, they try to find answers to questions in an event that happened almost 12 years ago like some sort of mental time loop.

[@579RA102010]

That ending had a profound impact... Glad I listened.

[@tokotokotoko3]

Interesting, would like to see the linguistics part also. Also any QnA.

[@pronoob1983]

Wow, he just sits there, legs crossed, and calmly tells it like it is. amazing, Bravo!

[@csleeo21]

A great summary of his on-going critique of the US in foreign policies and the dominance of the corporations in US and the world.

[@jimmyjames1487]

Very well constructed to understand, even from a "conformers" understanding. Good work

[@ckeeler13]

Thank you so much for the upload. Just curious, is there a Q&A?

[@windokeluanda]

Great Noam Chomski! Power with it! Keep on inspiring us!

[@nikkicanada69]

he sounds SO excited!

[@user-le4bt9gx6w]

Listening to a wise man's speach from Greece

[@PetadeAztlan]

There will never be another Noam Chomsky ~a humble master.

[@duganrushes]

He already has even though here in America for obvious reasons mainstream mediaites won't book him. I studied him in college during the Sixties. Since then, his reputation as one of the most brilliant minds to ever have walked this planet has spread globally.

[@theH0UNDSofD00M]

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online."

[@camabelu1]

Very well said. I'm older (54) and I agree completely.

[@190ecky]

gosh man that's a power statement Mr. Powell stated, one that military in all countries should be aware of.

[@SimpleServe]

Yes sir. I agree with your wisdom.

[@francescmarco]

i love the first line of the transcript: "legacy gentlemen... long chopsticks"

[@cook0032]

good stuff. we are all lucky that chomsky does a lot of the research for us.

[@chloe290983]

Good to see someone pointing that out. Regarding the monetary system and RBE as proposed by TVP. TZM do well at highlighting the shortfalls of the monetary system aswell. If it weren't for Addendum and Moving Forward many of us would be oblivious to these shortfalls.

[@camabelu1]

Good on you! He's an intelligent guy and, even though he can sometimes be on the dry side and hard to stay focused on sometimes, he's well worth listening to.

[@Ero763]

Amen to that(not in a religious way) I find myself doing the same thing except sometimes he keeps me up because his lectures are too interesting!!

[@jarvistargus7274]

that is a fantastic idea

[@camabelu1]

The temporal part is finite, but I think you inadvertently got it right the first time.

[@sonjakroll2519]

Thank you very much, Mr Chomsky. It is a sort of consolation if terrible truths are stated by such sane, friendly minds as yours.

[@draoi99]

That may be, but his message is more important now than ever before.

[@cmbodayle]

Does anyone know where the Sagan debate he is referring to can be found?

[@GregoryGaynor]

As he gets older, it's sad to think that someday in the relatively near future we will turn on the news to hear that he had died, never knowing if people took his words to heart and put the planet on a better path.

[@raphaelholzinger]

As a human it makes me proud that Chomsky is a fellow human being.

[@camabelu1]

Oh, very well said!

[@MrBel23]

Looking from outside in at the act of war - it really goes back to understanding the inner human brain and the drivers of thought here within all of us; in order to lever this, as it has been going on far too long and is wide spread in leader animal misunderstood settings of behaviors. The difference is made by taking a stand which takes a heart alike Martin Luther King, as well as individuals in the world understanding the dynamics of the brain which in-act such childish leadership wants.

[@williamusher]

Probably will do if I watch anymore of this

[@meletdufromage]

i heard rutgers was kind of a big wild place so i was kind of curious about what kind of people you could meet there. im curious is it really frat city like they say or do you find kids who want to have these conversations occasionally? i was always dissappointed in drews lack of a party scene. we had fuckin hippies who couldnt even find acid, it was depressing.

[@xxmdogxx1ify1]

I've only heard a dozen lectures of his but I'm convinced he is a near genius. We need many more intellectuals of his caliber

[@meloearth]

Me too, I confess that I played this whole thing but my mind was somewhere else. Strangely, I am sleepy now.

[@sardanapolis]

Remember, pride always comes before a fall!

[@Sampsonoff]

I want to give this guy a big ol hug.

[@Canuck516]

Great man! We are lucky to have him!

[@M4rifleguy]

He might or might not have gems to pass on to the people. But I can only listen to him for about 10 minutes before his voice bores me to death. It's the verbal equivalent of counting sheep.

[@stoprainingonme]

Interestingly Chomsky has described his upbringing as working class intellectual - that is most of his family were not formally educated but they educated themselves. Also he has described MIT has being better at foestering independent thought than other universities. So Chomsky seems to have benefited from particular cultural circumstances that have encouraged his own critical thought.

[@LeDlejt]

who is the historian he refers to at around <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2930">48:50</a>? - It sounds like Martin Gilland to me, but I can't find any books or youtube clips under this name.

[@camabelu1]

Nicely said. While I don't take everything Chomsky says at face value and without reflection, I appreciate his ability for critical thinking and he has, without a doubt, offered value to our (generalization coming..) dumbed down population.

[@meletdufromage]

laying out where society had to go, as if the extremely complex decisions facing our society could ever be made by one man. But the second, and more important reason, is that in his view its more important to make poeple aware of what we dont need than potentially alienate them with his views. Alot of people, actually probably the majority in this country agree with some percentage of what he says, and he wants to keep the focus on people uniting and getting rid of what doesnt work so that

[@ccaammiinniiito2]

What a commanding genetic beginnings! Both his parents were Hebrew scholars!! Can you imagine that? What a dynamic cultural upbringing just by osmosis only, long before graduate and post graduate studies. And imagine his peers. They'd have to be of similar cultural level to even think of maintaining any friendship!

[@wishcraft4u2]

Don't forget the importance of actually, you know, organizing politically and economically and actually informing yourself and others about the strategical situation... That seems quite a bit more significant than what products you decide to consume within your life time. I would even be tempted to say that what you suggest is to an extent exactly what the powers that be expect you to do...

[@kathiebishop1]

I am afraid of a world without Noam Chomsky. Although there are many great intellectual, Chris Hedges and others, nobody else does what Noam does--carefully and dispassionately laying out the reality of international and domestic politics and elite agendas.

[@DB5V838]

My opinion is that people should be held accountable for being manipulated. The trait of allowing themselves to be manipulated is a sign of a week spiritual soul. Which means these people have been week for thousands of years. The motif of: if you don't control your mind someone else will control it for you applies. If people hurt other people because they've allowed themselves to be manipulated, the hurt people deserve to be compensated and the perpetrators of the crime punished.

[@camabelu1]

I did forget to comment on one thing you threw out there. I didn't say I'm older than you and therefore wiser. I said, effectively, that there is only one way to gain wisdom (and it isn't a given that a person will) and that's through time spent learning. There is no way around it. For the record, I've bothered to collect some because, like you, I have a good head on my shoulders and like to use it.

[@tobsvonmittelstraum2300]

Tell me while holding a straight face that the past is more important than the future.

[@shanesome1988]

I will have to look into Richard Wolff. And as for Ron Paul, he may be a politician but he has a very thorough understanding of world history and economics. He is not like other politicians in this right, He will and has run circles around any other politician when it comes to intellectualism.

[@vetherook]

dude had me at "intelligence is a lethal mutation" I've got to finish this video sometime soon

[@BalkanibalX]

Glad you asked, Slavoj Žižek for example

[@PopulusVultDecipi]

The hammer quote is originally from Abraham Maslow.

[@nystagmus]

thank u

[@ksautterd]

Absolutly correct.

[@Sylvianisme]

Knowledge is not out there for everyone to access, in fact there is such a mass of information that it takes a huge amount of time to process it properly and usually most people who have to work, care for their families, their homes, etc simply have no time for that. That's what you call "idiots". Time actually is only one factor of lack of political culture. I'm sure it could be analyzed as one big system of exclusion. That's why Chomsky is so popular, because he works for the people.

[@zerosum318]

Love Chomsky's chair here.

[@tobsvonmittelstraum2300]

Because people like certainty, which we cannot have. We especially want to be certain about our own beliefs, so we test them against others - even though the debate is highly irrelevant. As long as debates are constructive and the goal is agreement, then I am all for discussion. But when the motive is to prove that 'I am right' by showing that 'you are wrong', I don't condone it. Sadly that's what people like to do today; not rarely offline but almost always in the anonymous social networks

[@Pirusiandres]

Whether you agree or disagree with Chomky's standpoint, you've got to admit he has done homework every single day of his life.

[@madelineta4721]

exactly how I feel every time I see him speak (:

[@hughmannable]

turn up the volume

[@brt9577]

He is, and History will show you exactly that he is a big one at that.

[@camabelu1]

I am in complete agreement. It is sad seeing how old Chomsky is getting, btw. The ol' brain is still clearly working but it makes one realize how fast life goes by.

[@raytvmy]

Noam Chomsky really reminds me of the Carl Fredricksen in Up(the cartoon).

[@geppegep]

its pretty hard, because the world isnt "one" its comprised of billions of individuals that have billions of families, millions of communities, millions of corporations etc.

[@itsthekush]

So true. As we all know, ad hominem assertions are the clearest sign of intelligent discourse. Therefore I must me dumbed down.

[@PatrickLink]

About 15 minutes in Chomsky mentions the new Israeli submarines, it's really one of the most underreported stories of the last ten years.

[@glenbroemer]

i understand that you might subconsciously absorb a few of his observations, perhaps even understanding them in the process. though do you think you'll be able to absorb his capabilities, the essence of his brilliance?

[@MrStx101]

I wish Noam Chomsky could live forever.

[@musick2138]

(another one for my favorite-quotes-collection:) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3342">55:42</a> " In the past 30 years the 'masters of mankind' --as [Adam] Smith [1723-1790] called them-- have abandoned any sentimental concern for the wellfare of their own societies, concentrating instead on short-term gain and huge bonusses... "

[@AmericanPatriot53]

Each individual is freed once he comes he reconciles internal conflicts and allows himself to seek truth on this we can agree. Globally as long as we remain a world divided by nations, religions, resources, cultures, languages and races conflict is unavoidable. The concept however of one world ruled by a single global entity does not bode well for the average American. The US/Canada currently represents 60% of global grain exports. The US is poised to surpass Saudi as the largest oil producer.

[@AmericanPatriot53]

Which crimes against humanity are you referring too? BTW I am always up for an intellectual discussion.

[@markalantonio]

Thumbs Up for the velcro shoe straps!

[@eyeseethroughyou]

I live in Canada, where our culture is very much the same. Therefore I have every right and responsibility to critique it. And I agree, however I sense your reactions appear to be emotive and defensive. My intentions aren't to demean Americans/Canadians, but rather I am expressing my opinions on the state of Western culture (America being the center of it). It may be cynical, but not meant to insult people as a whole.

[@iod3k]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="34">00:34</a>:00 over-all theme of this talk?

[@RichieW]

A truly great man.

[@knpstrr]

Whoa who else thought it was Chomsky sitting there before Chomsky came out?!

[@camabelu1]

Hi. Sorry for the confusion. Yep, I hit "reply" on the wrong name. No matter. I agree that it may well not be the CIA but explaining the various possibilities is for another venue. I also agree that we are limited in what we see, even after restrictions are lifted from top secret documents. Those black lines are an exercise in frustration. BTW, I'd be interested in your theory re Oswald, Russia, his wife, etc. and you are clearly well versed in the subject.

[@salasvalor01]

Isn't it amazing that a sample of our time's greatest to offer, intellectually, and also from academia, is so uninfluenced by popular consensus or taboos- no, he is the archetypal freethinker. My favorite element of Chomsky is his "fuck the appeal to pathos; I'll use only logos- and let that be my ethos."

[@MRTOWELRACK]

Just because the government funds oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia and such, it doesn't mean that most Americans think the some way. It's irrational to generalize.

[@MrAllenCrown]

I think he was on to something concerning Intelligence, that biologist. How many of those extinct species you mentioned, died out without a mutated version surviving. Humanity as a species going extinct? Great, what mutation of human species will have the adaptability to outlive the crisis? (Am I part of it XD)

[@mindfreeify]

with your supported we win

[@StephenPhilipMeans]

This is a powerful video simply because Chomsky doesn't villanize the less than one percent elite. But in my opinion the designers, especially the bankers, should eat my shoe leather. I never heart that one before. It means give them the boot!