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The End of Organized Humanity - Noam Chomsky
In this presentation, Chomsky notes especially the role of the oil lobby in creating conditions for the destruction of humanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs
Joe Rogan Experience #2237 - Mike Benz
Near the end of this presentation Mike Benz describes the connections between the oil lobby and the emerging censorship regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJhQpvlkLA
1 week ago · 👍 m0xee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJhQpvlkLA
Absolutely. Kropotkin's Memoirs worth a read too. His message is important historically, it was advanced for the time but now you can see how is outdated. Bookchin's The Limits of the City is still fresh. Chomsky with his resources and image could have done more in these several years but now I think Chomsky's contribution to freedom is less important for our time than Richard Stallman's for example. I found his hypocrisy more tolerable and at least we have a tool like GPL. · 1 week ago
And Kropotkin supported western entry into World War I AKA the War to end War, which was, like, the world's dumbest war. Unless one was a eugenicist (we need a war to purge the gene pool of excess poors, as the ruling class was saying in the early 20th century) or a death merchant. And yet that doesn't give me a reason not to read The Conquest of Bread or Mutual Aid (the latter's still on my reading list). I can still respect the man. · 1 week ago
Well if your anecdote is somewhat related to the previous comment @lucifer_jehovah_smith you can read Kropotkin or Bookchin and compare their thoughts to Chomsky. It's about investing efficiently your time if you're interested in the field. Bookchin in particular has words for compromise and hypocrisy. · 1 week ago
Two things are in vogue right now, and in some ways they always have been. 1. Hate the messenger? Ok then, ignore the message. 2. Hate the message? Fine, kill the messenger. At least metaphorically. I've been as guilty of both as anyone. One instance that comes to mind is when I was telling somebody to ignore something because it came from an author affiliated with the Hoover Institute. I didn't have any strong arguments early in the morning for whatever point they were making, so I resorted to the old standby of "Ignore the message because I hate the messenger." · 1 week ago
Noam Chomsky despises NATO but he lives the most of his life under his umbrella. He's an anarchist but he got regular payments by the state as a university professor. Get the irony? No wonder his verbose ruminations leads to nothing. Beware of hypocritical. · 1 week ago
The people who are trying to "control the narrative", so to speak, are the sort who think that you can change the world by changing language. · 1 week ago
"The industrial goal of censorship is to control the narrative" Yes, Orwell had a word for it. Here's George: ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’. · 1 week ago
The industrial goal of censorship is to control the narrative and flood the zone with misinformation and deception. We've seen this before. Everyone in the 1920's KNEW lead was dangerous. But tetraethyl lead (TEL) was found to be a super anti-knocking agent that was cheap. Ethanol (spirits) was also effective but in not cheap quantities. This fact was covered up as the industry insisted there were no alternatives. The media was complicit, preferring to quote industry scientists over doctors, university researchers, and public health experts. By the 1980s, it was taken as fact that no alternative existed, even as the harm evidence was irrefutable. · 1 week ago
"whose complete lack of transparency is the anti-thesis of democracy." We're seeing that lack of transparency show up in surprising places nowadays, like free software communities. See, for example, the way in which the removal of Russian kernel maintainers was handled by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman. · 1 week ago
Why then post a link to a Mike Benz interview? Because he's not wrong. When you throw out the Code of Conduct, you can listen to other sides of the debate, and see what is true for you, what is false. And the issues Benz raises are some of the most important for our generation.
We are no longer living in democracies. We are living in managed democracies, managed by intelligence agencies whose complete lack of transparency is the anti-thesis of democracy. And the world these agencies are creating is more dangerous. And they do not serve the people, but private interests (the oil lobby) who use imperial assets to sustain their energy monopoly against all reason. · 1 week ago
Note about Benz: I repudiate his praise of Elon Musk ('Deus ex Muskina') and his proximity to Donald Trump. Far from opposing American imperialism, he wants to defend it. His complaint against censorship is that the US State Department is spending taxpayer money to attack "American champions" like Google and Apple. Benz's recipie for freedom is to throw us back into the workhouse of social media.
This is why consciousness of the information war is so crucial. We cannot trust others to solve the problems that the mafias create to institutionalize their power. Mike Benz is just a soldier of one of the mafias. Never forget that. · 1 week ago