THE PROFESSOR WHO CHANGED THE WORLD : A GUIDE TO NOAM CHOMSKY

[@ahanafislam6786]

“By the age of 10 noam had already written an article on the spread of fascism and by the age of 12 he openly identified as an anarchist politician”. WTF…. I ate dirt when I was 12

[@seaweed6668]

Damn im in 20 recently just going to college as freshman year i feel this is so hard to feel behind everyone else who has achievement and success in life meanwhile me struggling to going to school and search for money

[@Jupa]

He should publicly apologise for being a genocidal denier before that old piece of garbage starts to decompose. otherwise, his legacy as a philosopher would be overlooked.

[@londontrack6099]

@@seaweed6668 Chomsky probably also felt like he was behind. Human nature is to always pursue more. It’s the reason why we have to learn and teach ourselves to appreciate what we have and be present and show gratitude. It isn’t in our human nature to do so. People either use this human nature by doing more and achieving or they learn to simply show gratitude for what they have. Different sides of a single coin. My advice? Be better. Use that human instinct to want more (thus making you feel behind) to your advantage and keep doing if you do “think” you’re behind, almost as if you have to “catch up”. Warning: you will still feel behind after you’ve done those things. But that’s where learning gratitude and being present helps. Balance is key when used correctly. End scenario? You’ll realise you were further ahead than anyone else around you. Tip: people from social media Do Not Count. It will be that much more satisfying to feel as though you’re “behind”, work hard to “catch up”, and then have something to look back on and think “damn, I did that”. You got it my bro. The goal is to be old and have your grandkids be in awe at the stories and achievements you hold, not what the next 20 year old has achieved on Instagram.

[@shauryachandola350]

@@Jupa exactly the comment i was looking for. Everybody seems to deny a very important event in his career as a public intellectual smh

[@intellectually_lazy]

i ate dirt when i was 4, but only because johnny told me to. when i was 12 i said f v ck you mom and stole my first gnr tape

[@Boggleforever]

Noam Chomsky with jazz guitar in the background, Sisyphus knows his audience

[@jimmylin1392]

I was thinking the same... Glad this comment has 138 likes

[@189Blake]

And stick figures, don't forget the stick figures.

[@nic1925]

I ran into Professor Chomsky at a little sushi restaurant in February before the pandemic. He is up there in age so I didn’t think heard me that well, but it was pretty cool to shake his hand.

[@shantanusrivastava9744]

Woww

[@cosasinsolitas5712]

I thought you where about to say: and then he told me "let me enjoy my raw fish you braindead fascist" or something like that. Idk why, but cool you met him.

[@gimmeyourankles]

Bruh this is amazing...

[@Manticorn]

Something funny about learning that the man likes sushi

[@thermite8281]

I want to eat sushi with chomsky

[@189Blake]

Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories are of such relevance that they even contributed to other fields, such as Computer Science and the development of programming languages and the first compilers. Nowadays his theories are still used in the development of Speech Recognition Systems and Natural Language Processing. I just thought that even though a little off topic, it's worth mentioning.

[@TF-bi8ru]

Guy is a legend in linguistics. So uncommon that you get someone with that much prevalence in two mostly unrelated fields. Pretty sure most Syntax textbooks I've had start by dedicating it to Chomsky.

[@dr3812]

@Gödel Escherbach could you recommend any books on this subject?

[@S3aCa1mRa1n]

He’s pro free speech too.

[@mikek6298]

Most linguists I talk to think his linguistics is bunk. Sure it's helped in the creation of programming languages, but it has otherwise been mostly disregard. It's honestly a weirdly hierarchical take for an anarchist

[@govindnair3064]

@@mikek6298 Doesn't Stephen Pinker still adhere to it?

[@destierro6566]

I like your funny words magic man.

[@PsychLing0]

Fax, my fellow friend human

[@toootdooot710]

@@PsychLing0 what’s with the ride of misreading words

[@ThePiotrekpecet]

More like: I like your magic funny words man

[@bigsmoke1887]

More like: I magic your like words funny man

[@fluffymassacre2918]

I like his magic word funny man

[@vandelayindustries5814]

worth noting, Chomsky has dedicated the last decade and a half to talking about the existential threats to humanity- the threat of nuclear war, environmental crisis and attacks on democracy. For 40 years he's known for spending 5 hours each night responding to people that email him sincere questions. Today, at 92 he says he's busier than ever. Reminds me of marathon runners and boxers. They don't slow down, they get faster and work harder until the end.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

five hours each night? Where did you hear that or see that? He gave me a long email response in 2001. I've posted it online before because I consider Chomsky a "public intellectual." He considers his emails private though - is what he has said in response to people quoting him out of context, etc. He also said he trashes hundreds of emails a day that slander him from both the left and the right.

[@spacejunk2186]

Thats rich of him talking about thrats to democracy, lmao.

[@vandelayindustries5814]

@@spacejunk2186 o yea?

[@bartdoo5757]

I didn't know email was used a lot in 1961.

[@vandelayindustries5814]

@@bartdoo5757 there u go

[@thelouster5815]

You’re less than a decade away from sounding like Chomsky.

[@TheMetroidSocrates]

He already sounds like middle-aged Chomsky. Look up him debating William F. Buckley in 1969.

[@toootdooot710]

@@TheMetroidSocrates oh my

[@GaganSingh-nx2yv]

@@TheMetroidSocrates I don't know if debate is the correct word. Schooled Buckley seems to be more appropriate.

[@ishaan9265]

@@GaganSingh-nx2yv Buckley was not very intelligent to begin with. He built his career on the fact that he was a very "charismatic" persona. Regardless Chomsky put him in his place- I remember he said he would be glad to have him back on the show and Chomsky confirmed that they never attempted to interview him again

[@glitchgod3868]

@@TheMetroidSocrates Chomsky is so old that he was already old in 1969

[@plsarguewithme2665]

no one: the captions: *GNOME CHOMSKY*

[@ShawarmaFarmer]

God forgive those bastards

[@fergalbeatty3021]

@@ShawarmaFarmer Lovin' Chomsky like an alcoholic

[@aunaprendo9957]

no one: me: *uses the tag "gnome chompskeet" to troll people in online videogames*

[@Bluelight29]

Great album

[@toootdooot710]

@@Bluelight29 influence all around

[@GaganSingh-nx2yv]

The intellectual who speaks in lowercase.

[@toootdooot710]

Get the rich men

[@karnika2404]

omigosh the best comment

[@alalohwhydee]

i'm deaf so reading in uppercase or lowercase sounds the same to me

[@thorstenmohlmann732]

Best comment

[@noneimportant5951]

Paaji noam chomsky ka kisne bata diya aapko?😂

[@chicana99]

(Chomsky's dad) William has such an admirable reason for educating people: so they "may become well integrated, free and independent in their thinking, concerned about improving and enhancing the world, and eager to participate in making life more meaningful and worthwhile for all". He sounds like the sort of person that would encourage others to engage in the world again, encourage people to resist in spite of corporatocracy and simulated paranoia. Thank you for sharing, Sisyphus!

[@teamakesgames]

He has the raspiest voice ever. Listen to some of his recent Interviews

[@saathvikanand8817]

My dumbass read this as "rapiest voice ever"

[@toootdooot710]

@@saathvikanand8817 my goodness you

[@lukaspasten]

@@saathvikanand8817 me too I was about to be like “what!!??” I’m dumb

[@troubadour0663]

Yeah. He's in his 90s and has been fighting right-wing grifters/goons like Buckley for over 50 years so it's natural to have a raspy voice.

[@keylupveintisiete7552]

@@saathvikanand8817 The guy with the Jordan Peterson logo 🤣🤣🤣 I'm not surprised

[@Vinsce_lives]

He is a rare case of virtuous parents doing a positive number on their son and community

[@braiangabriel638]

@KZbin banned me twice why?

[@Laurarat]

@KZbin banned me twice so that makes him a charlatan? Even if you believe his ideas are limited, they are still massive compared to the normal perception people have and I am glad so many people have heard his ideas

[@SparkyonPC]

@KZbin banned me twice elaborate

[@kagura7107]

@KZbin banned me twice how are his ideas of human nature and economics laughably limited?

[@sama847]

@KZbin banned me twice *Bold outrageous claim* How *More nonsense that doesn’t prove bold outrageous claim*

[@krystalhodges2656]

The animations have evolved, they blink now

[@lacanian1500]

the budget for this channel has increased, apparently

[@PASTRAMIKick]

reminds me of the time he basically said that Zizek talks a lot but says little, which can be true sometimes.

[@authorbhattacharjee4957]

Kinda true

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@ES-sb3ei Zizek had overwhelming crowds of students with school guards holding people back - at Harvard - in the early 90s. I got a postcard response from Zizek in 1996 - "It looks very interesting. I will read it all and get back to you." Zizek then published his 1997 book that tried to debunk my critique of him, "The Plague of Fantasies" - it's been all down hill since then. haha. I compare Zizek and Chomsky in my 2000 Master's Thesis that was a rewrite of my 1996 monograph that I had sent to Zizek.

[@standowner6979]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 source or it didn't happen.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@standowner6979 For instance, while grand theorist Slavoj Zizek has done a brilliant job clarifying dialectic thinking and crucially applying it to cultural analysis, he devoted a large part of a recent book to attacking rhythmic vibrations of energy. It is not that Zizek's theory is incorrect but only that he refuses to systematically take into account dialectic analysis beyond that of Hegel and Lacan-or beyond the limits of language as represented by the Freudian "primordially repressed."243 (see below for further description of primordially repressed) Zizek writes, "Hegel's point is not a new version of the yin/yang balance, but its exact opposite: 'truth' resides in the excess of exaggeration as such."244 What is missing from Zizek's understanding of Taoist qi gong is that the disease is considered the teacher for the cure, just as Zizek states, "the wound is healed by the spear that smote it." In other words, the dialectical process, accurately modeled by music theory and Taoist qi gong as will be shown, uses resonance-the exaggerated 'comma of Pythagoras' ( to achieve a new synthesis or a new form. Zizek does recognize the meaning of music as "the pre-ontological texture of relations" when he refers to Plato's "chora" (i.e. chorus) from the Pythagorean dialogue Timaeus ( calling it "a kind of matrix-receptacle of all determinate forms, governed by its own contingent rules."245 Zizek also impressively traces the history of the ego or the modern Subject as corresponded with the development of opera. The end of the cultural dominance of opera coincides with the beginning of the modern paradigm and the hysterical subject as the object of psychoanalysis.246 In a chapter on music Zizek writes: What is music at its most elementary? An act of supplication: a call to a figure of the big Other (beloved Lady, King, God...) to respond, not as the symbolic big Other, but in the real of his or her being (breaking his own rules by showing mercy; conferring her contingent love on us...). Music is thus an attempt to provoke the 'answer of the Real': to give rise in the Other to the 'miracle' of which Lacan speaks apropos of love, the miracle of the Other stretching his or her hand out to me. The historical changes in the status of 'big Other' (grosso modo, in what Hegel referred to as 'objective Spirit') thus directly concern music - perhaps, musical modernity designates the moment when music renounces the endeavour to provoke the answer of the Other.247 One of the main cultural criticisms emphasized by Zizek is that the dialectical process of Hegel has been misunderstood as a new ideological Absolute Subject thus, as Berendt also points out, causing materialistic Marxism to be a distorted example of dialectical thought. Currently Zizek has pinpointed new age thinking as also being representative of a misguided Absolute Subject through the goal of a new balanced order of harmonious nature or "New Age Consciousness: the balanced circuit of Nature."248 But to correct Zizek, contrary to a reified Absolute Subject or big Other of nature, prominent analysis of qi gong ironically distinguishes dialectics from the common misunderstanding of Hegel ( the same error that Zizek has focused on clarifying:

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@standowner6979 The term synthesis in this context does not refer to polar opposites merging into a higher unity so as to be separately indistinguishable. (This form of synthesis was one of the goals of the dialectical process identified by the philosopher G.W. Hegel in his development of the Absolute). The method may be simply described as positing something as a thesis, then realizing that it can only be truly defined by taking other aspects or its opposite into account (antithesis), and finally arriving at the explicit recognition that the thesis and antithesis are related on a higher level of objective truth: synthesis). To understand ongoing process, which Chinese philosophy favors in the spirit of synthesis, we might consider the psychological concept of integration.249 The true open systems ongoing process is modeled by sound-current nondualism in a manner that very specifically and simply clarifies the correct dialectical analysis that has been the focus of Zizek's investigation. As Zizek states, in dialectics first there is a thesis then an antithesis and as each is taken to their extreme logical conclusions both points negate each other by their mutual absurdity (called the dialectical reversal after the unity of opposites). Then that negation is affirmed as a new ground that both points now hold in common. This last formal step is naming or recognizing the first negation and called double negation or determinate reflection. The point, not recognized in the dominant linear interpretation of dialectics, is that it is "the very lack [void] they have in common" which enables a new synthesis. Zizek writes, "Being reveals itself as Nothing at the very moment we try to grasp it in its pureness," and in reference to Hegel, "the subject is precisely that which is not substance." Zizek then states that the dialectic process is the same "nodal" problem again and again.250 Taking Zizek quite literally is more appropriate than he may ever realize for it is exactly the nodes of sound-current nondualism, by modeling different orders of information, that so precisely describe the dialectical process. To give some background information, the ratios of the fourth and the fifth are inverse opposites of the octave overtone ( both ratios cause a pull to resolve at the fundamental (and octave). When the ratios are explored at depth, the relation of their overtones is in dissonance. As Rothstein describes, "These two consonant tones (fifth and fundamental) have strongly dissonant overtones...[and] are the poles of tonal musical drama."251 It is this paradox of the poles that defines the description of thesis and antithesis in the dialectics of music theory. Erno Lendvai states, By taking a V-I cadence the essential notes in the five chord bear an equal tritonic relationship according to their overtones. These essential notes are what cause the strong feeling to I. By inverting these notes the same tritone relationship is formed...The tritones' overtones act as subdominants [fourths] and as dominants [fifths] at the same time. These two positions neutralize and again, the tritone's relationship to the tonic [fundamental] is found, the two are acoustically interchangeable.252 Jeans provides the following on the topic: "In the case of wider intervals such as C and F# [the tritone] there are no beats to be heard, either pleasant or unpleasant, but Helmholtz asserted that C and F# sound badly together because certain of their harmonics (e.g. g' and f'#) make unpleasant beats."253 The dialectical process is demonstrated through sound-current nondualism by the splitting of nothing (the zero beats root of the fundamental) into two parts: the fundamental and the octave, that freely resonate into the next multiple of the fifth, forming complimentary opposites to the fundamental. The fifth splits the octave and fundamental in half but also pulls to or, resolves to, the octave and fundamental. As described by Lendvai and Rothstein, the free vibration of the fifth and its overtone become extreme opposites to the fundamental, via the overtone forming tritonic relations to the tonic. The tritone has traditionally been known as "the unutterable" or "diabulus in musica" and for Pythagoras it was the secret transcendental ratio from which the Pythagorean theorem was derived.254 Lendvai points out that the tritone overtones act as both the fourth and the fifth, the yin and yang, thereby unifying and neutralizing and modeling the dialectical reversal. In the scale the tritone (F#) is in between the subdominant or fourth (F) and the dominant or fifth (G). As Jeans states, the tritone has no beats (zero) with the fundamental-thus forming the first negation. The analysis of the transcendental dyad at the tritone was the source for the concept of the void in Pythagorean doctrine.255 The tritone overtones then act as the original consonant fifth to the fundamental, as described by Lendvai, thus completing the double negation or determinate reflection for the new synthesis. This final synthesis is on-going, represented by the multidimensional resonance of the spiral of fifths (not the incorrect circle of fifths taught in the West) that is basic to sound-current nondualism( or again, the same beautiful "nodal problem" again and again.256 While Zizek, like Bateson, does not stray beyond the linear symbolic limit of the primordially repressed, he does describe that limit as being magical pre-verbal sound. The primordially repressed are myths that "have no 'original' in the language of intersubjective communication.'" He gives a very significant example, ...at the very moment when the reign of (symbolic) Law was being instituted (in what Moses was able to discern as the articulated Commandments), the crowd waiting below Mount Sinai apprehended only the continuous, non-articulated sound of the shofar [a trumpet-type horn]: the voice of the shofar is an irreducible supplement of the (written) Law. Zizek defines the shofar as "a kind of 'vanishing mediator' between the mythical direct vocal expression of the pre-symbolic life-substance and articulated speech...this strange sound...is strictly analogous to the unconscious act of establishing the difference between the unconscious vortex of drives and the field of Logos in Schelling."257

[@FaySwine]

“Chomsky doesn’t believe that such a revolution as possible without the general public being educated”, me too, me too. You can’t force trust otherwise it’s not trust, and believe me you want confidence to be born out of curiosity.

[@indoorsandout3022]

I used math to learn Japanese... The mere fact that this is a possibility, that grammar has an order of operations, that different languages have different orders, etc... is a huge breakthrough. I'm applying the method to Old Icelandic, we'll have to see how it pans out. But I got the idea during a fit of mania after reading about the innate ability of people to acquire language.

[@masterstealth11]

I also saw Japanese as mathematical when I was learning it

[@porridgeramen7220]

how did you use math to learn Japanese?

[@tarikarifhodzic3334]

Could you explain how, that sounds cool. Please go into as much detail as you want

[@asmaa_6042]

I'd love more details on this! I love both math and Japanese

[@ilydevonte4764]

please explain ?

[@neilb9768]

For the last 3 days, I have found myself obsessing over the work of Noam Chomsky. I read theough his wikipedia and watched a bunch of videos and podcasts, including the foucault one. It is very wierd that you uploaded this video now.

[@hortlockthelivingdead4676]

same here

[@gwynbleidd5171]

Check out his book Understanding Power. It's basically bite-sized interviews of him talking about lots of stuff. The most eye-opening book I've ever read.

[@al-ameenkudehinbu8067]

I have gone through the same thing Neil he's been in my mind all of this weekend and last week

[@Olonne85]

Also check out about his genocide denial stands about Bosnia and Cambodia.

[@THEmax80z]

@@Olonne85 did you come here from the kraut video too?

[@Xenophakes]

now that you've mentioned manufacturing consent you should do Walter Lippman.

[@MrSince1991]

You're in Montreal!! Wooow me too! Dude I wonder if we ever crossed paths.

[@ashfazal6638]

I was able to attend a zoom call with Chomsky today! Brilliant guy even at the age of 92.

[@TheLegend-mu6zg]

May I ask what the zoom call was about?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Noam Chomsky does youtube interviews all the time - he just went viral for speaking in favor of vaccine mandates. The interwebs freaked out. haha

[@DarkAngelEU]

I never thought of Chomsky as someone interesting, and now I know why, because everything he represents is so well-integrated into our society. Thanks for clearing that up, I respect him alot more now :)

[@hrishantaswani8055]

Your monotone is the only monotone I can enjoy

[@nickscurvy8635]

Chomsky CLAIMS to oppose unjustified hierarchies yet he advocates hierarchies in grammars. Quite curious

[@schlaubischlumpf211]

There is perhaps, and only perhaps a difference between the structure of our language and the structure of our social community. Unless this was meant as a joke, in which case I apologize for not getting it.

[@upublic]

@@schlaubischlumpf211 this channel is still small enough that the comment section isn't yet tainted with the sort of people who would formulate posts like that unironically :)

[@twoiko]

@@schlaubischlumpf211 I believe it's an attempt at making the turning point meme without the photo, I thought it quite funny myself.

[@heraldojacques8386]

Keyword in what you said: "unjustified"

[@dudeman5303]

Oh my god I saw the first part of your comment and I thought you were actually about to shit on him, I was gonna get mad cuz Noam is the GOAT. I have mad respect for him

[@ZealousWins]

Everyone remembers Noam Chomsky, but no one remembers Gnome Chomsky 😞

[@Gus-n9u]

Ok, but Gnome Chomsky has the greatest potential of any D&D character I’ve heard of in recent memory.

[@jessicalindo7977]

I hold the belief, deeply in me, that by talking to people and taking in more experiences, we can grow as people and change minds while doing it, as well as having our own changed. Public discourse is as important as introspective thought, and without a balance of them,, it becomes too easy to lead yourself down a radical path to either side of the spectrum

[@ethanstump]

I have had the opposite experience with discourse. You could say that I started on the extreme right, and now am on the radical left. This whole notion that the "extreme" is more absurd than the absurdity observed in trying to moderate both good ideas and bad. TLDR: sometimes empiricism justifies extremism.

[@timeWaster76]

Once he got his name in light he decided to play master of the universe. ANd he is an anarchist

[@somewiseguy7245]

I don't know why, but from the thumbnail, I thought it was Sartre XD

[@ergodeus]

Baudrillard for me ahah

[@toootdooot710]

@@ergodeus staring into the stars

[@InfinitiSin]

What does Noam Chomsky say while eating his favourite food. *Noam Noam Noam* (Ok, kill meh)

[@UpDownAndUnder]

you could say, he *choms*

[@isaacclifford348]

I've been waiting for this video. Chomsky is legendary.

[@isabellac8004]

I go the u of a where he is now a professor and im taking one of his classes right now! its amazing and such a cool experience. Loved this video!

[@freesolja1]

I didn't realize the man was still teaching! wow he's old.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@freesolja1 Roger Penrose is still teaching and got the Nobel prize last year - i think they are the same age. Penrose and Chomsky. Oh Penrose is 90.

[@robinvik1]

The most cited scientist of our time

[@nopenope8720]

What I don’t understand is why he lives in a country he keeps on criticising the country he lives in Going against the constitution (which government gave him) that gives him the rights to speak out against the government And also is simplistic to a dictator who forces people to fight a war ware they have to fight for a government which most did not want I’m am vary confused On what the hell this guy is doing Is he playing a joke or is he for real?

[@robinvik1]

​@@nopenope8720 Yes, you do seem really confused. Maybe I can clear some things up for you. Why does he want to improve the country he lives in? I think should be self-explanatory. The only reason you don't seem to get it because you view criticizing our country as some sort of betrayal, when it is the exact opposite. It is also the most powerful and influential country on earth, which means that improving it is in the interest of every human being on earth whether they live in it or not. You also seem to believe that if the government gives you the right to criticize is, then you shouldn't criticize it? The entire point of having the that right, is to use it. If we didn't use our rights, that what on earth would be the point of having them. Am sure that after having read this, you still have a lot of question and are still really confused about a lot of this, but instead on typing that all out and replying immediately, I suggest you give it a couple of days and really think about this and what your thoughts about this really are. That would be more productive.

[@waterbloom1213]

Academic, not scientist; they are not the same. And he is mostly the most cited not due to the value of his authority but because he goes and writes books on many different subjects.

[@donjindra]

Chomsky is not a scientist.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@donjindra Dr. Chomsky is well recognized and respected for his revolutionary and epoch-making linguistical account titled, “The Generative Grammar Theory.” In this work, he established a highly developed system for elucidating the structure and workings of the human mind. This consequently gave birth to a new discipline known as cognitive science, a study built on an interdisciplinary collaboration of psychology, information science, linguistics, neurophysiology, and philosophy. Dr. Chomsky’s theory provides the underlying structural foundation for cognitive science.

[@christopherfisher6995]

Personally I find his denial of the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide because of his sympathy for the Serbian military regime hard to look past. He's said a lot of good things but that one idea that he's continuously doubled down on too hard to swallow. I feel many people don't know this.

[@stratospheric37]

oooooo

[@-kryu0-464]

also his known ties to the Khemr rougue and support of pol pot

[@stratospheric37]

@@-kryu0-464 get outta here clown face

[@bon12121]

Yes. Yes indeed. But I wonder a couple of things. Nassim Taleb has a book Fooled by Randomness. In which we can take mistaken interpretations from observations. At the same time i think it's incorrect to disregard someones philosophy based on incorrect positions they hold (it's debate-able whether it undermines their position as a whole... I often think, I disagree with Nietzsche on quite a few things, but he criticise Descarte in a way that I thought was justified. Similarly with Plato.)

[@HUNDmiau]

He didnt deny the massacres nor did he support Pol Pot. He denied that the Srebrenica Massacre constituted a genocide. And the video itself goes into the whole Po Pot thing.

[@cowboiky]

Your absurdly simple animations and deep dives into such public figures makes for great content.

[@mitchellbrown2233]

Man, the irony of opening with thinkers staying true to their values at the expense of financial gain and then the cut to your sponsor was way too jarring. I get it, you gotta make money when you can but that was a bit too on the nose. I had to laugh, pause the video and write this comment.

[@joshuabyrne2220]

I don’t see the irony. I don’t believe his mini advert in anyway contradicted his values or the quality of the video. It was even advertising a language learning app, which is actually pretty cool and probably very much in line with his values. Perhaps I’d agree if he was advertising something preposterous like the newest GFUEL or something like that.

[@goosenik2219]

@@joshuabyrne2220 totally agree, there's a difference between selling out your beliefs and believing something while selling something unrelated

[@dudeman5303]

@@goosenik2219 (sorry this is a LONG rant) yeah it's kinda like when conservatives and liberals get mad at lefties because they support renewable energy but also have a car, they're always just like "weird, you say you support phasing out fossil fuels and investing in development of solar and wind energy, but you rode in a plane recently, you took a trip from DC over to California, if you cared about the environment why didn't you walk or ride a bicycle from DC to LA? Very strange...? 🤔" They say that stuff and pretend it makes sense, and it's like dude... We live in a society that doesn't function the way we want it to, we have to push society to change. One less individual riding a car isn't going to stop climate change, it is a systemic issue not a personal one. The current topic you guys are all on reminds me of this one, because ultimately we want to change this society we live in, but we have to survive in it until that change comes. I would like for food and shelter to all be de-commodified later on, but it's not like I would expect a farmer right now to do all that farming and then hand out the food for free without not ask for money in return, because they have to get by too. It sucks, but in the meantime we must do it this way, that's how it is. We must all think of ways to improve society and then push our ideals and make them more popular, in the meantime most of these things are still in the ideas phase in our society, and in order to get any change we need numbers, but in the meantime we must get by even if that means we have to take part in a certain amount of things we disagree with. On its surface level I get why people take it as a sort of hypocrisy, but when you really think about it, it is a lot more complicated than that and isn't really a matter of if that person lives up to the vision they want society to reflect.

[@francoislecomte4340]

@@dudeman5303 Could you explain why you said that we must all think of ways to improve society ? I don’t agree that there is a general imperative or maybe even an incentive at the scale of the individual for improving society. If an individual tries to implement a local change, it will not improve the global situation from which he suffers, in addition to being a cost (effort). If the individual instead choses to advocate for such a change, the cost of any meaningfull influence on society seems enormous : Chomsky devoted his life to his cause but never attained its realization. So, in the end, it looks like the individual is better off doing nothing to change society and focusing on his egoistic well being, only because the goal is more achievable...

[@hobosquidsquidhobo507]

Pay him his monthly salary and his vids will be ad-free, until then shut the fuck up and work your 9-5

[@CrazyByDefault]

Surface: D O G Deep: 2 THE MOON I see what you did there.

[@priscilajaneth4695]

I am not a native English speaker, would you be so kind to explain it to me? 😅

[@raphizz338]

@@priscilajaneth4695 Doge is a cryptocurrency meme

[@MightyDwarf1000]

Doge is a currency that you want to buy if you want to be cool like we are

[@CigaretteCrayon]

There are some more technical and fundamental reasons to be buying crypto right now ahead of March 16th.

[@raphizz338]

@@CigaretteCrayon what happens on march 16th ?

[@PoorlyMadeArt]

I can't wait for you to do a Kierkegaard video. It seems there's very little contemporary media covering him and his philosophy which is a little odd considering his importance to so many fields of thought

[@magoodog11]

Please do Thomas Hobbes. I know it’s not exactly your thing but you explain things so perfectly

[@serotonin.scavenger]

I once found out that this guy is still alive. It's like learning that Hawking didn't actually die. Man's an absolute legend in education, yet they say that he entertains emails sent his way.

[@ujmm]

I sent him an e-mail today. He responded :)

[@intellectually_lazy]

hawking's dead but you can still meet him if you go to his party. of course, you'll need a time machine

[@readerboi6154]

I feel lucky and privileged to have lived while a man like this was alive.

[@jokehu7115]

Who also was an genocide denier

[@readerboi6154]

true

[@voxpopuli7910]

@@jokehu7115 wot

[@UngovernableU]

@@jokehu7115 And ?

[@kkounal974]

@@jokehu7115 Sadly true but other than that Chomsky is a legend and we own him greatly.

[@Lemon-yh6xg]

you glossed over one of the most important outcomes of Chomsky's debate with Foucault: Chomsky gave a pointed rejection of postmodernist ideals and a staunch defense of western philosophical concepts such as truth and justice.

[@vsmk8747]

That drawing in the thumbnail is an amazing likeness to young Chomsky

[@TF-bi8ru]

Chomsky deserves respect solely for his contributions to linguistic theory. It's honestly mental how important he's been to more than one academic disciplines. 2023 Edit : Oopsies

[@hayteren]

He ONLY deserves respect for linguistics. It’s truly amazing how one can be such an expert and inventive on one subject and totally be wrong and infantile in another subject.

[@hp2893]

@@hayteren sure go back to watching sargon buddy

[@baskervill2680]

@@hp2893 I mean im lib-left in germany but what chomsky sometimes says is ridiculous. Like Trump being worse than Hitler cause he doesnt do much against climate change. Thats just bullsht. If you argue like that everybody here is worse than Hitler

[@toootdooot710]

@@baskervill2680 it’s eventually gonna happen

[@alexanderthedude5474]

guys guys i know theres a lot of tension in the comment section but if you think about it i think we should respect @@hayteren . the man took the time to read all of chomsky’s 70+ books not about linguistics and determine that none of them have any value. impressive at least

[@JollyCandy-ki3er]

My favorite philosophy youtuber

[@alexj7440]

Philosophy tube is really good as well

[@PentaSquares]

I've heard everyone talk about this guy named Chomsky, yet I've never really known who they were

[@lucas3918]

Manufacturing Consent can be easily accessed as a free PDF online. It's one of the works that arguably immortalized his ideas in political discourse

[@freesolja1]

2:44 that's a photo of modernist poet W B Yeats, not Chomsky's dad.

[@somnathdash4428]

This is what I was searching.

[@egormatveev1050]

I also live in Montreal! That’s so cool!

[@aasic3952]

Amazing video I was waiting for the bit at the end I wish you had discussed that more though.

[@maonyksmohc9574]

his biography is beyond impressive

[@maxheadrom3088]

The Linguistic Theory created by Chomsky is considered by many a revolution comparable to the one that made the word 'revolution' means what it means today - Copernicus and his book "The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies". His theory enabled all we use on the internet and computer softwares to exist because it gave the tools for creating high level programing languages and the compilers they require.

[@ftorididk4198]

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

[@CigaretteCrayon]

Voltaire and not the other one.

[@captainchorus9915]

Noam the Chonky

[@lukemays706]

Came here from Krauts video. Major whiplash seeing you never mentioned the major asterisks which is his view on the Bosnian Genocide.

[@jimmylin1392]

Nice background music choice

[@SpongeXtermiat0r94]

Sisyphus, you’re getting big enough now that it’s time for a mic upgrade....

[@slavaleks9027]

The animation on this video was top notch! I see you have improved your editing skills a lot!

[@theoli8407]

i’d love a video on christopher hitchens :)

[@deanprocter4330]

The video we have all been waiting for!

[@gspm23]

''There is something about the french language that just seems to unlock a whole other side to the city.'' Man, it's not only about french language in a part of the city but also the whole Québec Culture! We have such an enriched history, it's sad that's it slowly getting erase and ignored, our ancestor deserved better. J'ai pour ma part toujours espoir que le peuple Québécois se lève avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. Français, English, noire, blanc, jaune ou rouge ; Nous formons la nation Québécoise qui a choisi d'affronter l'hiver, de parler en Français, d'accueillir tous ceux et celles qui voudront partager notre culture. Soyons fiers et gardons en tête le plus important ; Nous Vaincrons!

[@namaenamae1]

Est-ce que cette sentiment est populaire parmi les Québécois ? Moé j'suis americain et je sais rien de la francophonie canadienne

[@simplypodly]

Derrida said quite the same, I Iearnt when reading his biography. As a native English speaker it opens my mind to the possibility of different parameters of thought amidst a different language

[@gspm23]

@@namaenamae1 En ces temps ou la liberté d'expression disparait à vue d'oeil et ou la population se polarise de plus en plus, il est difficile d'admettre que les Québécois sont un peuple unis. Malheureusement, l'Américanisme a fortement déteint sur notre culture, comme bien d'autres pays d'ailleurs, ce qui aura créé un sentiment de détachement face à nos racines, chez une certaine partie de la population. Le peuple québécois reste un peuple fort et fier qui peut se venter d'avoir des artistes engagés et pertinents comme Félix Leclerc, Plume Latraverse, les Colocs, Les Cowboys Fringants, en passant par la poésie d'Émile Nelligan et son fameux ; ''Ah ! comme la neige a neigé ! Ma vitre est un jardin de givre. Ah ! comme la neige a neigé ! Qu’est-ce que le spasme de vivre À la douleur que j’ai, que j’ai.'' Qui nous rappel la force de caractère nécessaire pour passer au travers de la dure épreuve que l'hiver nous apporte, sans parler de la scène sous-évalué du Hip-Hop québécois avec les Sans Pression, Connaisseur Ticaso, Manu Militari et bien d'autres, pour ensuite visiter les fantastiques sculptures d'Armand Vaillancourt comme son oeuvre 'Québec Libre' présente à San Francisco depuis 50 ans, ou encore par la philophie d'Alain Deneault et de son oeuvre sur l'économie de la haine, de la nature, de la foie et de l'esthétique. Notre culture est forte et ne demande qu'à être découvrir ; à vous de jouer mon ami :)!

[@revenzo3]

YESSSS been waiting for this

[@jamesr6257]

Noam chomsky is the greatest modern intellectual

[@jamesr6257]

@KZbin banned me twice his stuff on anarchism, war, nativism are all very solid, debate is not the only way of proving your worth as a philosopher, writing is where he really excels

[@vaclavmiller8032]

@KZbin banned me twice Which true intellectuals ought he to have debated? To my knowledge, he's debated more right-wing figures than just about any other public intellectual.

[@diamondisgood4u]

@KZbin banned me twice what value do you get out of debating someone when your view is education is what is important so... idk maybe try to educate the “college half wits“? It’s like you can’t put 2 and 2 together dude

[@dangquocviet6116]

@KZbin banned me twice lmao

[@vaclavmiller8032]

@KZbin banned me twice You are clearly not familiar with his work.

[@the_mirabela]

I am living in Switzerland now and j’étudie français plus maintenant 😅 Great video 🎉❤

[@ulastumen706]

Noam Chomsky sounds like my type of guy

[@andydonovan957]

Sisyphus is a Vampire Weekend fan!! A man of great culture.

[@WaterDoesGaming]

A Syphilis 22 video on my last day of exams for the semester. A great break. Also, "this is the best video you'll ever watch" honestly just may be.

[@frannmich2953]

YESSS NOAM CHOMSKY VIDEO LET'S GO

[@THEmax80z]

I urge anyone who stumbles across this video to consider his genocide denile before continuing to praise him.

[@owenschmidt8595]

Consistently my favorite KZbin notification to get

[@willow8415]

Foucault debating in French proves Chomsky’s point about making things overly complicated and confusing, isolating the average person.

[@ckv954]

Your style is a lot more stable now, rather than wiggly. I like(d) both ^^

[@caosXIII]

Chomsky Is so wholesome

[@caosXIII]

@KZbin banned me twice buddy are u ok

[@caosXIII]

@KZbin banned me twice ... Ok then

[@dangquocviet6116]

@KZbin banned me twice calm down Joker

[@Legitimatelylegend1]

@@caosXIII if you don’t reply you starve them of what they crave

[@wa4645]

@@Legitimatelylegend1 you're right. He's all over the comments shitting on anyone who says anything good about Chomsky. He feels very strongly about him for some reason, it's like he killed his parents or something.

[@Abrahamos]

Thank you so much for this. This video deserves more views and likes.

[@sandshark2]

The “the working class should unite, and any worker who disagrees is brainwashed” argument is also common, and I will never understand it

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

The argument is that if you do not fight foryour own enlightened self interest, then some powerful ideology has turned you from your own reason and ethics.

[@sandshark2]

@@fuckfannyfiddlefart but is it really fighting for your own self interest, when you join up with people who have no interest in your specific needs, but instead their own narrative? Its like everyone in a society who hates conformism, joins together to become an anti-conformist group. Irony is that they themselves conform to their anti-conformist beliefs. Here we see people fighting for self interest by joining a group of other workers who dont work towards your self interests, but their self interests.

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

@@sandshark2 No, it's not like that, read "capital" by Marx and you will understand class interest.

[@sandshark2]

@@fuckfannyfiddlefart denying something without reason or evidence shows you are in denial and truly do not understand the topic of economics and socialism. Instead of citing your bible without explaining how it pertains to this conversation, perhaps give a summary about whatever piece of the book you think rebukes my argument. Until you decide to actually contribute to the discussion, why not read the Wealth of Nations? If you can present a book, I can.

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

@@sandshark2 I've read wealth of nations. The problem is that you know too little too have a sensible argument with, make some effort. You make several assumptions that would be immediately challenged by a greater understanding of capitalist criticism.

[@itierney]

Chomsky’s dad seems to be the Yeats, the Irish poet.

[@Paraselene_Tao]

Haha. A video on chomsky? More like an entire documentary series is necessary 😆

[@khaledalajmi5131]

Much respect and appreciation for your work.

[@BigBadTubaDudeCRA]

It would have been perfect if you said at the sponsor part at the beginning "This video is sponsored by Noam Chomsky"

[@zacgraham7979]

Great video I have been waiting for this one. Hope you do Peter Singer sometime as well as his work has basically started the entire modern animal liberation and vegan movement.

[@ShowginTV]

Such a good video. Keep it up! One can see how such a wrinkly-brained intellectual giant would've been perceived as a danger by a warhawk establishment figure such as the President Trickster Dickster! Goodjob Sisyphus 55.

[@santiagoromero6279]

noticing lil animations and some more polish in your videos mate, good job

[@BrightCandleGaming]

Haven't been this early since the day I was born

[@karlhore9443]

me too

[@fairyfluf]

Early club

[@GeorgeTodica]

thanks for inserting that point at the end. Emerson said “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines". His uncompromising nature will only appeal to people who already think like him, and will do nothing towards aligning more people to his way of thinking. It's like, he knows he's really smart and wise, and expects everyone to be just as wise as him.

[@giatonpeonta8071]

Pinker has said things on Chomsky, but Chomsky was not a friend of Epstein's. I disagree on a lot of things with Chomsky, but Pinker is not the right reference if you want to criticize Chomsky. you need a person with higher moral standards than someone who claims that "things are going well, stop whining" while rubbing shoulders with the dirtiest part of the elites

[@diegocuneo9100]

Pinker is moronic...

[@giatonpeonta8071]

@@diegocuneo9100 i don't agree. i think that he's a very clever guy doing a very dirty job and making a very good living out of it. exactly Chomsky's point whether Pinker believes the BS he sells or not is beside the point

[@robertpirsig5011]

There is a great video online that shows that pinker cherry picked much if his data to support is argument. I'll see if I can find it again. Very well made.

[@giatonpeonta8071]

@@robertpirsig5011 i vaguely remember one, if i find it i'll post it in the thread, if you do first please do. might be shaun or hakim maybe?

[@giatonpeonta8071]

@@robertpirsig5011 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKCVmKqJabujfsU there's this one but i remember another one

[@ijemand5672]

My family and I stopped celebrating Christmas and now celebrate his birthday instead

[@ritwikchatterjee29]

Do one on Deleuze or Baudrillard please

[@zeitgeist5134]

Your videos are so damn lucid. And, by the way, your animation is enchanting and very funny.

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

Oh a fellow quebecois.welcome to the family

[@elementaesthetique]

Montreal represent!

[@thetalkinggospel3980]

ehy sis, i'm italian and I enjoy your videos alot. I was wondering how you do them and how much time does it take you to do one (for example the one "that's why you'll never be happy"). I don't know if you're ever reading this or even answer to it, but i'm grateful anyway. Keep it up!

[@tacitozetticci9308]

rip mi sa che non li legge

[@1deviousmama333]

Love the channel Sisyphus. I was wondering if you could do a video on Ayn Rand?

[@moonblade7564]

Chomsky's case is the best argument for a hypothesis that intellect doesn't corellate with worldview

[@mck1972]

LOL In Chomsky's case, it's far more than, ' Hypothesis '; it's a Case Study! 😀

[@frocco7125]

"NOM NOM NOM NOM" -Nom Nomsky

[@mustardtoast8328]

this is such a good channel

[@noneimportant5951]

Can you do one on Foucault and Derrida plz?

[@lalawmpuiahmar193]

2:45 I love your videos man and i know probably by now you would have noticed your mistake here by putting up W.B. Yeats, the renouned Irish poet instead of Ze'ev William Chomsky photograph.

[@ArielRyanBautista1313]

Is it just me or are the pictures of the philosophers he draws getting more and more distressed and unhinged in their depictions?

[@im70water93]

Your channel is awesome :0

[@bekk5958]

I bet his parents were the ones who came up with "cheemsburbger"

[@hortlockthelivingdead4676]

thank you for this video

[@PeterZeeke]

lol, at praising noams integrity followed by an actual ad

[@authenticallysuperficial9874]

Between the music and the monotone i have listened to this three times and still picked up approximately zero information 😢

[@laiva2175]

5:57 Ironic considering he became a genocide denier who knowingly lied about the bosnian genocide on his articles and television multiple times.