The Edward Said Memorial Lecture by Professor Noam Chomsky

The Department of English and Comparative literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture on Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World by Professor Noam Chomsky, Linguist and Public Intellectual in Fall 2022.

[@johngrundowski3632]

His hard won wisdom carries great weight , yet his humility is paramount . Thank you for producing such education for humanity ☮️

[@joeymurdazalotmore6355]

This man has watched his life time mankind kill a planet and hes always dead on balls accurate, u don't get replacements for these types. By far among oldest best intellectual speaking truth to power, he's a lil slower but he's still razor sharp n right there mentally

[@anna-rexia]

He also was for mandating mRNA vaccines. So that’s a no for me.

[@Chowringhee]

Even with the tech problems (which Prof. Chomsky handles with humour and aplomb), this historic lecture is Chomsky at his very best!

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

Yes, he does. The Nobel Prize would be an insult…… he deserves more. Thank you for your comment. Miss Jenny.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@jennyhirschowitz1999 Chomsky got the Kyoto Prize

[@juliusadkinsx]

Happy Birthday Noam!

[@alicjagorecka2282]

Great point about the need for the entire world to work together in order to prevent the climate catastrophe. Thank you! P.S. Happy birthday to a great teacher, and the most amazing human being I have known. It has been a privilege.

[@OldCleisthenes]

Chomsky is a giga chad. Man is a gift to humanity.

[@ashleigh3021]

Noam Chomsky, diehard capitalist that worked very hard to massively increase the net income of pharmaceutical conglomerates.

[@micnorton9487]

@@ashleigh3021 ..not really,, he is basically a capitalist because he lives in a capitalist country, I don't know how he's supposed to change things single-handedly because a lot of people who give him a hard time just call him controlled opposition.. well no s*** Sherlock LOL,, it's only now that he's beyond the reach of their sanctions that he can say right out loud, it is the corporate system and mainly the corporate system of the United States that is destroying the planet.. whether nuclear war or global warming, it won't make much difference in the end to the people dying which would be everybody,, as Ted kaczynski said in his manifesto or whatever it was we may already be beyond the ledge and already falling,, the only question is how long till the final impact... But I'd like to think that there are enough people with positive inclinations and outlooks who can take over from the mad men who have been controlling things for the last 300 years,, but they can't get to positions of prominence without the mass of people supporting it...

[@wallypally]

@@ashleigh3021 what u on about dummy?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@ashleigh3021 do you have any evidence for your otherwise false accusation?

[@popeyedoyle6360]

Ashleigh2031 yea.... right......

[@siriusvenus8708]

I saw Said at the Miami International Book Festival years ago. He was undergoing chemo and claimed that it was not going well. He passed not long after (in relative time). Orientalism, I read but I think Chomsky can clarify it's poignant components. I have thought of Said a few times since, sadly because I think his mentality should not be forgotten and fortunately it hasn't--thanks once more for the enlightenment of Professor Noam Chomsky---(hip hip, hooray!)

[@GlassesAndCoffeeMugs]

Chomsky continues to be based at 94 years old. How lucky we are that he has remained sharp as a tack in his old age.

[@michaelclark2357]

Thank you for the seminal work, Manufacturing Consent brilliant work at 73 I observed I was born into this set of circumstances when I was about 6 or 7 and all the economic inflation and recessions over the last 43 years up until I was 21 we used gold and silver as well as bill which could be turned into silver or gold $50.00 gold coin would always have a few in my pocket in the 60s till 1971 when Nixon took off a gold standard and then the thievery began to start I have to tutor college students will not teach at the University still have some $$ but what is going on now is real masters of mankind what a parody of incompetence we will not have to worry all those reactors will ionize the planet like sunshine

[@medicuswashington9870]

The fact of China is bringing CHANGE and HOPE. The balance of world power has changed. Empower the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. I am grateful to Professor Noam Chomsky for his sharing and commitment.

[@michaelcapponi2]

the final comments about israel... i've watched and read a lot of noam chomsky talks but he's still teachign me a lot. i'm sure lots of these points (say, about the pre-42 US zionism that was detached from wanting a jewish state - amazing to learn btw!) are already covered in other talks/literature of his, but he's also elucidating how these matters are moving on a day to day basis. i hope i can find someone who's as instructive and forthright about their analysis of complex issues such as this, because whether it's this coming year or five years hence (possibly more), i will eventually lose this instructive force in my life. well at least the new explanations won't be forthcoming, but at least i'll have old talks and literature to pour over.

[@sushipsychose]

Thank you for this insightful event!

[@kennethmarshall306]

He still gets to the heart of the matter better than anyone

[@jiggersotoole7823]

Does he point out that climate change is caused by people driving to the shops?

[@julianaciornei9913]

WE love CHOMSKY forever! 🙏❤️

[@drew1771]

Intro ends at about 4:05 in.

[@pauld47386]

Thanks

[@mnjraman]

How about someone (living in Prof. Noam Chomsky's neighborhood & close to him like family or a friend) arrange to give him a comfortable hair cut, a trim of his beard (every two weeks) -- with his full permission (for the remainder of his life). Perhaps include a gentle massage for his neck, shoulders, arms and legs. On the day of his haircut etc, also give him a good warm shampooing, bath; if he prefers a warm water soak in his tub, give him. He is one of the few greatest souls that I have come to know (unfortunately not personally) in my life. He cares for mankind and his students should volunteer personally to attend to him. We (in India) call that as Guru-bhakti, which does immense good to the student in particular and the Universe in general! I hope he is surrounded by caring people who would make him comfortable AND CHEERFUL all through his remaining years on this Mother Earth! I offer my sincere salutations to the Professor and his Benevolent Attendants, Nurses, Family (particularly his wife), Friends, Colleagues, AND Community Members in which he lives. If the Professor's wife is alive and living with him, please do what it takes to make her life easier, happier & cheerful. Thanks!

[@Sidiciousify]

He's doing it intentionally. Its the end, who cares?

[@matthewsaints350]

@@Sidiciousify what do you mean its the end?

[@mirambroz5015]

This friend of Epstein forced on us the vaccination. Ah yes, even Mengele was Dr and highly appreciated in his time not only in Germany but in USA too. Chomsky is pure hypocrite minorizing transgenderism of the left, Planed Parenthood rooted in pedofile Alfred Kinsey or tyranny from the left in Canada, Australia, New Zeland... Shame on him. Nothing strange that his friend was Epstein. Jesus, Budha or Krishna never wrote nothing but theirs virtues and teachings remained fresh till today full of love.

[@Vinny141]

wow noam chomsky! thanks for making this available. When was this recorded?

[@bwaii]

thousands of years ago(:

[@sushipsychose]

In the fall, just before the US midterms. Maybe November 2nd?

[@jreyn2]

@@sushipsychose I agree that it must have been Nov 2, 22. He mentions an important Israeli political development "yesterday," almost certainly referencing the legislative elections of Nov 1.

[@cpt.dr.hawkeye1740]

Chomsky has turned into Gandalf at this point

[@tomsearle1]

Does anyone know of a good quality audio stream of this brilliant lecture?

[@tomsearle1]

Or a transcript.

[@graham6132]

"You shall not pass!"

[@rokelly5957]

.. Out your front door said Chomsky to the unjabbed... 💩

[@fatfrreddy1414]

has he retracted his condemnation of the people who declined the "Chab"...?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

maybe you need to provide some evidence for your otherwise false accusation. Interwebs is all based on gossip!

[@wadiefaridhaddad7429]

❤

[@rafaelludicanti2]

Professor, I have read articles written with the aim of forging an academic view that the United States actually contributed to the strengthening of democracy in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, written with truly alarming intellectual dishonesty. I know you know what that means. From your student and disciple, Rafa.

[@marlenefumagalli7252]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@alfrednewman2234]

Maria Warner is the 2022 Said Memorial Lecture, not Chomsky/What year is this?

[@barnyardbrio7597]

The paradox exists because there is very little intelligent life on Earth.

[@micnorton9487]

Intelligent life exists but it's not being engaged,, when you have people like Trump intentionally dumbing down billions of people the result is never going to be pretty,, and organizations like NATO keeping literally trillions of dollars worth of production flowing into war and other stupidity while very little is being done for intelligent pursuits, it's bound to happen this way... There needs to be a revolution not just in the United States but worldwide, and paradoxically enough the ones that will fall quickest would be countries like China that are already half communist... But that depends on other so called democracies revolutionizing first,, the sad thing is we don't have far to go to get from Doom to Hope, it's just the top echelon of people that we call the oligarchs that are pushing Mass Capital initiative into stupid directions...

[@anonymousanonymous7304]

People trust sociopathic corporations.

[@thomasnicodemou5160]

There is a lot of intelligent life on earth. But we have been entangled in an endless web of power interests, the truth is twisted, the news is filtered, and us the bewildered herd have submitted to this unnatural arrangement in human society. Lobbyists in their thousands are roaming the institutions of power- in the USA and almost everywhere. They represent the corporate interests not the ordinary people’s interests as ordinary people have no money to pay for lobbying. What do you expect to come out of this arrangement? We’re an intelligent species no doubt, but we’re really a social species and this characteristic has not been fully understood or manifested.

[@philipsagalla7909]

@@thomasnicodemou5160 yea. All sorts of a syndicate, or somewhat like it in different level of all sorts of interests

[@thiccboi5011]

Bro really said imma be a wise mystical tree huh

[@ReviveR6]

This is probably disrespectful, but it’s funny lol

[@michaelclark2357]

Prof. M.J. Clark Physicist Medical Clinical Chemist Lab. Pathologist Very accurate analysis water expands when heated so the oceans will rise class war since the 1980s my last employment as an Optical Engineer has been outsourced since NAFTA was implemented looked investor protection so as a scientist looked at Tesla's patents wanted to send wireless rf energy to stations around the world J.P, Morgan replied to Nikola Tesla if you cannot put a meter on it never mind no more money.

[@ashleigh3021]

Meds now

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@ashleigh3021 @ashleigh3021 Noam Chomsky, diehard capitalist that worked very hard to massively increase the net income of pharmaceutical conglomerates. " yeah like your comment was any better. haha.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

you comment makes complete sense - comparing JP Morgan's rejection of Tesla to NAFTA outsourcing workers as "efficiency" for increased elite profits.

[@youseffarawila8125]

Sound quality is very poor. Any syllable uttered by Chomsky must be treasured. Is this Intentional? To obscure minutes 16:00 to 18:00 perhaps?

[@rezagolshan2206]

Deception full of hot air

[@AdenwalaM]

The audio is not good. Can someone please post the transcript of this important lecture? Thank you.

[@mozartsbumbumsrus7750]

Although I have a solution to the problem of sapiens, I believe strongly that it is THE solution, no one cares to listen, so I will keep it to myself.

[@cheekhoonchan1627]

Professor Chomsky opted not to mention Leo Szilard's response to Enrico Fermi's question (paradox): The super-intelligent alien beings are already among us... they call themselves Hungarians

[@ally11488]

Think they all agreed the only alien among them was Neumann.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Szilard worked to support the World Institute of Julius Stulman - a kind of secret world government based on science in control.

[@cheekhoonchan1627]

Szilard, having conceptualised the nuclear chain reaction, eventually explored migrating to New Zealand as a refuge from nuclear war (before our current understanding of nuclear winter)

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@cheekhoonchan1627 It's amazing people don't realize just how freaked out he was about nuclear power! People really need to know about Leo Szilard more. thanks for sharing. I just discovered letters he wrote to promote the creation of this "World Institute" - it was basically a world government hope for arms control via science integration and hopefully "positive" use of applied radiation.

[@cheekhoonchan1627]

@@ally11488...not forgetting Edward "Dr Strangelove" Teller

[@ahmedabdelsabor7087]

The AUC can't afford a decent internet connection?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Could be on Chomsky's side - he just did another interview that had the same problem on a different channel. He relies on reading the responses to him - since his hearing is going. So the voice to text program must cause transmission issues.

[@mikebutkus3081]

I hear that!

[@abu.hanifah1442]

هداك الله الى الإسلام. أسلم تسلم.

[@joeknockane8831]

Professor Chmosky looks a lot like Chomsky!

[@alfrednewman2234]

CORRECTION: Cairo has a Said lecture, apologies.

[@liedersanger1]

So delete!

[@sandro9uerra]

Dr. Chomsky wanted to put me in a concentration camp for not taking the injections, I don't find him very inspirational. But whats truly disturbing, is that so many people think he's such a nice old man and putting people in concentration camps isn't such a bad idea.

[@olivierbolton8683]

We are all responsible for the destruction of Gods Creation... The only book the only book the lonely book of nature...

[@leebarry5686]

Humans don't obey the revelation of God but define on their own limited,misled and purely desire-controlled norm of thinking and behaving, which is lure and coerce them to self-destruction.

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

Not to mention they created a perfect all powerful fantasy god to escape all the anxieties life has to offer.

[@atwarwithdust]

Technical difficulties.

[@stewartbrands]

CO2 is good for the atmosphere because plants need and like it. It is only a problem if there is not enough plantlife so people should manage and increase the zones of plantlife. The world was warmer than now for millions of years. If there are enough plants they will manage the hydrological cycles and temperature. The CO2 that was once abundant for plants is now in calcium carbonacious rocks and petrol. CO2 is not a problem with enough plantlife. Look how big the dinosaurs were. People are a tropical ape species. The defoliation of forests is causing warming,not CO2.

[@anonymousanonymous7304]

What about biological weaponry? Obviously they are working on it.

[@pilesthedonkey]

So NO look fusion is what your not saying.

[@charliewade4875]

Gandalf in real life

[@anna-rexia]

This is the guy who wants people who don’t want to take the new mRNA vaccines to be segregated from society. Mengele would have loved him.

[@epluribusburnum3082]

Chomsky is getting chommed. Looks like a cross between Ron Jeremy and Dr Zaius

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

I have no idea who the two people are that you're comparing Chomsky to. Also I get the impression you've never even read a Chomsky book! Hilarious.

[@francie2915]

@EPluribus etc….So you think you will never be old? What a fool.But you will never have a mind.

[@epluribusburnum3082]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885Chomsky talks the big lib talk but is a fraud when it comes to doing it. Just like Bernie Sanders

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@epluribusburnum3082 how many times have you been arrested doing civil disobedience? Chomsky points out his talks caused death threats.

[@epluribusburnum3082]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 He has been arrested and what you say is true. But he is a predictable hollow intellectual. He hates Israel while living on stolen indigenous soil of the Massachusetts. When FREE PaLESStine launches 4000 rockets into innocents where is Chomsky???

[@user-vt9tq7pr5x]

I am an Egyptian and I am very uneasy about the role the AUC and other western NGOs play in shaping our culture and promoting democracy and instability in my country. Please focus only on education not politics and culture. Culture should be shaped by religious institutions and by rural and beduin traditions not colleges. Colleges are for learning sciences and technology only.

[@popeyedoyle6360]

Religion has done quite a bit to destroy funding of science and technology and so has culture, would you agree?

[@youseffarawila8125]

I cannot believe you are Egyptian or serious in this strange comment. WOW!

[@user-vt9tq7pr5x]

@@youseffarawila8125 For your information, ever since the cold war ended the United States has been on a crusade to spread liberalism and democracy around the world. The US relys on its soft power as well as it's military. NGOs like freedom house, the national endowment for democracy, open societies foundation and others play an important role in cultivating a liberal class with leadership skills to try to acquire power in their countries. The ancient Romans used similar methods in subduing their conquered subjects. You need to listen to professor John Mearcheimer.

[@user-vt9tq7pr5x]

@@youseffarawila8125 Look for example at how Hungary is being punished by the EU because it decided that it was a Christian country not a liberal country.

[@LucianTSkeptic]

My 1200 baud dial-up AOL connection was better.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

because you didn't have to use voice to text programming? I used to type as fast as people talk for my DEAF operator relay job. haha. we all wore braces for carpal tunnel.

[@LucPatry]

where are in ref for this videdeo a supporter of prof Chomsky and also pls do not include me ❤☭

[@MrPudd420]

So sad to see the state Chomsky has devolved too. I can only blame the anti vaxxers.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Compared to your lack of reading Chomsky books? How generous of you.

[@francie2915]

@ Peter Howard Oh foolish among you who plan to never grow old!

[@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

Welcome that damn liar?

[@spennie3607]

He lost ALL credibility with his vax remarks

[@jenspedersen4509]

Go away Chumsky!

[@hgkwbsx7]

I agree. Let’s go back to Jordan Peterson explaining why zebras are black and white.

[@jenspedersen4509]

@@hgkwbsx7 He's a socialist and basically endorses Orwellean 1984 tyrany rather than controlled laissez faire capitalism

[@jenspedersen4509]

@@hgkwbsx7 But that's just what-about-ism, Alex. Makes no sense either.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@jenspedersen4509 endorses Orwellean? Lesser known, according to Chomsky, is Orwell’s stress on “thought-control” in supposedly free societies such as England. Here a subtle system of censorship operates which means that unpopular ideas are rarely heard. Going to Orwell’s precise words: The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. … The British press is extremely centralized, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was “not done” to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals. Orwell may have been writing on censorship in the 1940s and the suppression of anti-Stalin views - but his views are equally relevant to an understanding of the media today.

[@jenspedersen4509]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 1984, I said. That's Russia, China, North Korea, in terms of totalitarian societies. 1984 was not about England.

[@jacpratt8608]

"they (the rich) wont help them(the poor) , even to save themselves" Forget vile maxims. Wealthy have passed the use date; the show's over. Can't even read the sign saying it. R They Us?

[@ashleigh3021]

Why are you entitled to the private property of other people? Why are leftists incapable of personal responsibility?

[@boscinet]

Nurse, nurse! come quickly, Noam is sounding off again, seems he hasn't had his medi-care today.

[@mvdrebel]

Poor professor Chomsky. He should stick to what he knows, language studies. The part on global warming holohoax was unbearable.

[@briancarroll3541]

this is cruel! how many times are they going to reanimate this corpse in order to YT'ers to parasitize it?!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

So you've never read his books? Especially "World Orders: Old and New" - a classic! If you haven't read it yet then obviously this talk is beyond your capabilities.

[@briancarroll3541]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 i wuz readin chomsky while you were still making a mess in your diaper, champ-assuming you're not still doing that now! do you have any clue as to how long this man has been spouting this same ultra-lib. propaganda? likewise, you're prolly not aware that chomsky's true contribution was as a linguist back in the sixties. not sure how that qualifies him as a poli-sci. expert or historian, but generally as a philosopher he was destroyed in a debate around that time versus Foucault, pedophilic sodomite that he was!!! finally, the methodology behind your deduction of my 'capabilities' is sub-intellectual; one's aptitude being determined by reading any particular text is a 'classic' example of propaganda's historic success. i feel you may be guilty of projecting in the assessment concluding your counter-comment.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@briancarroll3541 If you're wearing diapers again - be proud of it man! haha. As for the rest of your message - I'll leave you with an email that Noam send me 20 years ago. From: Noam Chomsky Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 To: Drew W Hempel (by way of Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: Minnesota Dear Drew Hempel, God save us from our friends -- not for the first time. I'm a little surprised that Brokaw would credit a source like that. Surely he wouldn't in the case of anyone who falls within approved doctrinal bounds. You're quite right about activists not being willing to read. I get a good measure of it when publishers send sales records or in the signing frenzies after I give talks. In both cases it's overwhelmingly the small pamphlets with interviews, etc.; easy reads, and short. But it's not just activists. Same with academic scholars. It's very rare for them to go beyond the limits of the guild, a practice far more pronounced in the social sciences, history, etc., than in the sciences, something I've observed from a lot of first-hand experience in the last 1/2-century. It's too bad about Guerin-Rocker, and in fact all of the rich literature on anarchism. Contemporary anarchists -- at least those who use the name -- seem to divide, mostly, between people who don't want to read and those who are immersed in often arcane scholarship. There are exceptions, of course, but the tendencies are noticeable. It was quite different in the days when workers education was a normal part of everyday life for great numbers of people, and labor-based media were common fare. No plans for reissue of At War with Asia or For Reasons of State, much to my regret. In fact, they were scarcely looked at in the first place. Wrong story. Even left academics don't want to hear such things, and it went -- and goes -- beyond the interests of most activists. How far the anti-war movement was from understanding anything that was going on was revealed pretty dramatically by the reception of McNamara's awful memoirs -- actually welcomed by leading figures as a vindication of their stand. Few could comprehend what an incredible display of apologetics it was. Wrote a few things about it, which I noticed could not be understood even by left academics, for the most part. The Party Line is much more influential than many think. Thanks for sending along the excerpt from what you've been writing. Interesting, and well done I think -- but then, I would. I've read some of what Zerzan has written, under various names. Occasionally, out of curiosity, I've written brief letters asking if he could supply some of the sources for particular quotes, which I know he has invented (though I didn't say so). I'm constantly promised that they'll be coming. They won't, of course. This is just a silly game, in my opinion, defaming the good name of anarchism -- not for the first time; there's a rich history of that. Noam

[@briancarroll3541]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 wow! look how wrong you can be (i mean myself, of course). as for the diapers, not planning on letting it come to that, how bout you? prolly a moot point considering how little time average YT commenters have left. as for N.C., his problem for me is one of time catching up with a lack of reconciliation of philosophy. he has stated that he 'tries never to have faith', and presents all the materialist inclinations one would expect from someone with his platform. the problem then becomes the distinctly humanist justification he relies on for his criticism. this can be provided by none other than a theology, no matter how unacknowledged or even denounced within judea-christian hypocrisy, forming a metaphysical basis for an eternally impotent, intellectually stagnant and hence, archetypically academic position from which to provide criticism and comment (over half a century's worth in this case, and imo, far beyond enough!). all this without ever having to be involved in any of the messy work of actual revolution, i.e., words in place of deeds, which i believe is very much the point. 'twas ever thus. Chomsky is a linguistic genius from a great and ancient tradition. Woe to any subordinate gullible enough to accept his narratives (letters included) as one-dimensional.

[@thomasnicodemou5160]

You are so cruel. Just listen to his message and don’t be concerned about his old age. We’re blessed to have him and so many people like me live their lives every day being helped and enriched by Chomsky’s teachings and principles. Old age is not a shame. Please show respect if you’re not capable of anything else.

[@zelenssoDeSedaRosa]

Is Noam Chomsky being turned into Jesus Christ?🤔

[@logiclane9550]

Happy Birthday Noam!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

his birthday is the day before my dad. Noam has lived a lot longer than my dad. I tried to get my dad to read NOam Chomsky but dad refused. oops.