Noam Chomsky - The Psychology of Power

[@teo5146]

I have watched quite a few Chomsky lectures and this is one of those rare times when there is some humor added to it

[@onlinecc]

Far from it : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnjPhat-aah2e9E

[@TheCriticsAreRaving]

In my experience, there's usually at least a bit of sarcasm in each of his lectures. In interviews he's very dry, though.

[@teo5146]

TheCriticsAreRaving Sarcasm is a very fine line for academics to thread though, as I am sure you know. But I do agree with you

[@fabiengerard8142]

@@TheCriticsAreRaving 👌🏻👌🏽👌

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

*2 of 2. This is how you always should vote worldwide-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

*1 of 2. This is how you always should vote worldwide-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Tim Walz, Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Even _Noam Chomsky_ made the horrendous continuous-mistake of telling people to vote for Democrats.* You have to fully oppose Chomsky telling you that, _and also all these media “journalists” for the Ds or Rs of the duopoly._

[@GarfieldArbuckle-ks3xf]

No you should definitely support the democrats over Nazis

[@segundojoel10]

1:25 the way we form biases, confirmational biases...we start looking for what we assume to be true already... But that's part of universal intuition

[@adamleckius]

"you can't really generalize, but I think the general thing is..."

[@josh4144]

hahhahha

[@ItinerantIntrovert]

"Belief formation is often contingent on the outcomes that you want"

[@AymanB]

I agree that it's probably extremely difficult for cognitive dissonance to occur in an individual, which would mean that adults doing rotten things create a mental sphere of justification that makes their actions/beliefs tolerable to themselves... That said, I think that sociopathic behaviour (which departs from that) is probably not uncommon among the elites who have the blood of millions on their hands... Perhaps there do exist and have existed, people in power, who are consciously quite pleased with their achievement, and only parrot "noble" justifications for PR purposes, not for their own sanity... Albright comes to mind. Who the hell knows... We're all just guessing.

[@marvinwilliams7938]

The deaths could be justified as well

[@DCdabest]

One of those things where; when you set up a society where double-think is a necessary part of weilding power; you get people into those roles for whom double-think is not that hard an activity. They prove to be monstrously effective at that job because all they have to focus on is the brutality and not the rationalisation.

[@aluisious]

Don't underestimate foolishness and stupidity either.

[@4242]

​@@DCdabestThis was an idea that I was struggling with particularly while reading manufacturing consent, I couldn't just buy that the entire media was a conspiracy because those are hard to maintain... so this to me makes more sense ig? What you describe sounds like there's a kind of natural selection and a feedback loop, let me know if I'm wrong, I don't read a lot, I just started

[@MachYew]

Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald had an awesome interview last week where they discussed this sort of thing in depth

[@kaderathebeekeeper22m3]

Matthew Corr link?

[@MachYew]

Wish I had a link, it was a livestream/podcast but apparently they're going to break it into segments v soon and post it on YT.

[@MyXAHOB]

thank you for posting this highlight

[@davidmayhew4818]

I think Obama was a reticent politician because he had a family to protect. If you had two options, and ine might enable your family and the other be not so good, you pick the first. But if you are a single president you might be more bold. Take more risk. ?

[@yougetonthathorseyougottar6126]

Great observation.

[@peternielsen8601]

Impressive guy.

[@sepehrsadeghi5271]

I have no answer to this. About the power i can raise many questions. Some people think communists in Soviet union weren't real communists. History tends to disagree. The hope of hopeless is to hate the sin but love the sinner who ever he or she might be. On the other hand there is nothing else we can do.

[@dewok2706]

GOOD MORNING SIR!

[@surrealistidealist]

The psychology of power for one era becomes the philosophy of power for the next era.

[@monuseons]

This is EXACTLY the mentality and reasoning of a meat eater. Take note Noam

[@kigormley]

monuseons FFS

[@mator2339]

Same goes for vegans who eat plants who are living organisms.

[@ChildrensRightsFirst947]

@@mator2339 Plants aren't conscious, though.

[@richaveritt7297]

First