my dog noam is still kickin. big ups g

"If you're a United Parcel Worker/Truck Driver and stop for a couple minutes when you're not supposed to, you get a notice that says 'sorry, can't do that' and you're basically a servant to a master for most of your working life. There was a time not long ago where that was considered an intolerable attack on fundamental rights and human dignity." I work in delivery and this kind of shit goes on all the time with little understanding or respect to the circumstances you are in when out on the road. Personally I blame Amazon for bringing about the statistical bean-counting obsession with being exactly on time, but it could predate them.

Great to hear from ya Noam

Chomsky was unique. I purchased the Chomsky Reader in the 80s. In the forward he confessed that if he knew of an atrocity perpetuated by a movement fighting evil, he would not report it. I still own that book, but closed it right there and never read him again,

I'm going to miss him when he's gone. Thank you, Noam.

I love seeing the home decor of the Chompks! ♥️ May you live another 100 years.

PRECARIAT great word. Noam ✊🏼respect.

Chomsky is always so cheerful and optimistic, said no one ever.

My exact reaction was i shit you not " yo noam chompy is alive"

Shocked to hear Noam had some dealings with Jeffrey Epstein.

Dude talks like he has a long life ahead of him.

I would not say: are designed to such and such an end. But: will end up in such and such a way.

Privileged to be listening to the finest socio-economic-political historical analysis of the back and forth of the class warfare which has become global today and is threatening human civilization and human survival. All other analyses and commentaries seem so prosaic, uninformative, irrelevant and dishonest. Listening to Chomsky is an education and an empowerment.

We must build tools that improve our collective, democratic decision making. If decision making can be done better by people doing actual work than administrative crooks, then days of oppression will be over.

FIRST: BORN-AGAIN Then: everything else

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Mes parents m'ont obligés à m'agenouiller pendant toute mon enfance de 4 à 6 ans pour me donner 30 coups de fouets à TOUS LES JOURS. Quand je demandais à mon père pourquoi il me fouettait, il me repondait: «Parce que je faisais mon smatte». Quand je lui demandais c'était quoi un «smatte», il me répondait: «fait pas ton smatte avec moé», puis les coups de fouets avec la strappe augmentaient en termes de quantité et d'intensité. À 13 ans, en 2003, je te laisse deviner quelle sorte de porn je regardais sur Internet. Je me sentais comme un Alien. Je n'ai jamais eu d'ami(e)s ni au primaire, ni au secondaire. Aujourd'hui à 33 ans, je souffre d'anxiété généralisée, anxiété sociale, dépression majeure & agoraphobie. Ma famille homophobe ne me parle plus depuis des années et les docteurs refusent de me diagnostiquer quoi que ce soit. J'ai dù me battre durant des mois afin d'obtenir un diagnostique de dépression aiguë par un médecin fallacieux, alors que je suis en dépression majeure depuis plus de 2 ans. Alors si des gays décident de défilé déguisé en Puppy Sl@ve au défilé de la Fierté, je les appuis à 100%. En tant que su!c!daire depuis plus de 20 ans sans diagnostique qui pallie sa souffrance par auto-médication depuis plus d'une décennie, je vous avoue que je me sens délaissé à tous les jours. Je suis complètement isolé et je ne parle plus à personne. Il faut laisser les gens s'exprimer, sinon ils s'isolent et souffrent en silence dans leur sous-sol avec pleins de jouets BDSM dans leur tirroir/coffres/garde-robe, et ne parlent plus à personnes, tout ça parce que leur parents ont fait le choix de les punir de leur homosexualité avec de la torture.

Everyone should understand the early US liberal logic. And should study Jefferson’s proposals. Yes you can call out Jefferson for his racism and sexism but his economic logic was anti-capitalist. Meaning, Jefferson believed in universal or near universal small land ownership with zero tax. So that small land owners had their own means of production. A yeoman farmer could produce enough to survive perhaps a little more, but they were independent of a landlord which Jefferson say as a corrosive institution that was anti-democracy. And just a point of fact Jefferson wanted to tax land monopolies out of existence. Tax plutocracy out of existence. And wanted freedom from monopolies written in the Bill of Rights. There is a reason why he wasn’t invited to the constitutional convention. Economically Jefferson did not have many alternative solutions for industrial development. He actually advised for no industrial development if it meant the rise of an elite corporate class. For the most part the US went with Hamilton’s ideas which was subsidizing an elite class to start industries. Jefferson did support Owen’s New Harmony experiment as an alternative which eventually failed, but did have some successes which should be studied. But long story short there was a popular attitude of personal sovereignty which should not be sacrificed. Lincoln’s logic which was written was, that a person may have to rent themselves out temporarily to raise enough money to buy a piece of land and thereby have their own means of production. But the population did start organizing with the ideas of collective ownership which was a threat to the industrial elite. Now this concept of individual sovereignty which is often preached by the right, is a complete illusion. Even the basic idea of owning a basic home is out of reach much less a real lucrative “means of production”. So this idea is completely obscured. They can only sell the illusion of sovereignty and the illusion of the individual. I have tried to run a business as an antique dealer. It worked as a subsistence back up plan. But I can easily see greater success and stability working with a qualified set of skilled people cooperatively working together towards a much more lucrative outcome. I don’t think any cooperative can work, you do need qualified skilled people willing to work cooperatively and put in that extra effort. And you need to find a real market. But it is in my opinion the only way to gain mass individual sovereignty and individual integrity. So what would that look like. I think people ought to ask what is a possible successful small business, get like minded responsible friends and work together to establish a cooperative enterprise. And support other cooperative enterprises on principle as a way out of this monopoly situation which is destroying lives and personal integrity.

It's ironic that there is a limit on the language we can use to describe what an incredibly important human Mr. Chomsky is. Goddess bless him for his commitment to telling the truth and aiming to raise humans to be better.

Looks like Moses

That was a 15-minute history lesson followed by 2 minutes of actually trying to answer the question, which seems a lot like not having a real answer. Why not simply say, "Something that looks like what's going on in Brazil right now," and then pointing people to the resources by which they could find out about the Brazilian model? It is because it wouldn't take much to be turned off by the Brazilian model, so first you have to prime the pump by talking for 15 minutes about how bad the current system is?

Noam once needed advice on manufacturing the consent of miners.

Historically, would Noam ever have lived this long or been allowed to have a voice in the society he argues for? Labor does need more of a say, especially when automation and e-commerce are poised to change the fundamental assumptions of labor based systems. The Travel Agents Local 404 and the Cashiers Local 420 jus don't have numbers dey used to.

Co-ops sound nice, as Noam describes. The kind of cooperative companies I think Noam has in mind are 'worker' co-ops. Wikipedia lists some: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives None of those or any other are around where I live, as far as I know. I don't have the impression that worker co-ops are gaining popularity 🤔

With all due respect, Noam goes back so far back in history, and it also limited to the USA... Who will really listen to this given the short interest span of nowadays public audience. I am sorry because the discourse is very pertinent, as I listen to it. I feel like a Cuban listening to Castro in the 1960's, without the macho oumpth!

I love how Chomsky now looks like the homeless guy who sits outside of city hall and talks to a lawn mower

More theory from Noam.

I chose the precarious existence because after 12 years of school slavery thunderdome, I wanted nothing to do with the human race again. People are surprised when I tell them I've lived my whole life without a job... considering the amoutn of wealth I've accrued and live comfortablly. It was brutally hard, you learn to live like a dandelion betweent he cracks.

Noam Chomsky has never had a clue what he is talking about. He has always complained about America and Capitalism, while the whole world is getting healthier and wealthier all the time. Noam Chomsky has always been a whiner, and the only people he talks to are whiners.

Hahahahahaha

NC will soon be "moving beyond" everything he complains about. Bu bye norm!

a steady job is an abomination. do away with wage slavery, once and for all.

Noam is a 2 dimentional dinosaur who is best suited to only stick to math and language and mind his lane

This guy is a total chump. Work is 40 hours a week out of 168. That's 128 hours you don't work. You sleep another 45 hours that leaves 83 waking hours for yourself.