“I knew I would never be rewarded for virtue”....powerful that touched me bc I can relate. Love this guy more and more every time I hear him speak

@socratesagain7822

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. Tons of wisdom in that Hedges' quote. Breaking out of the "just world hypothesis" which frames every single Hollywood movie and TV series (not to mention organized religion) becomes very difficult after a lifetime immersed in this mental universe. But it is not impossible to escape. The fact that Chomsky, Malcolm, Jamal, Hedges, Wright, DuBois, Parenti, _et al_, have succeeded demonstrates people can--much like the character in the Flammarion engraving. Be well.

@deborahwalker7406

6 ай бұрын

yeah he's great unless you're a raped 10 year old in need of an abortion in a red state.

44:30 I teared up a bit. I'm black and live in South Africa, but I feel bad for those people in little town America, Chris Hedges summed up their despair in those words.

@p1b1harper

2 жыл бұрын

Do you feel bad for whites in SA?

@DJosAmmel

2 жыл бұрын

Colonial Virgina (before the U.S. existed) codified whiteness for the 1st time in human history. It punished poor / indentured whites for helping rebelling Black slaves. Race exists to keep us divided so that we never unite against ruling elite.

Every time I listen to this man, I get very emotional! A true American hero, Chris Hedges.

@PK-re3lu

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. Why are there not more like him!?

@peterm1240

Жыл бұрын

@@PK-re3lu Why should there be?

Chris Hedges is so awesome. Such integrity and courage, as well as intelligence and compassion. What a real hero and patriot.

@grannygotcha9809

2 жыл бұрын

Close to the only one.. Ralph Nadar ?

@JeepCherokeeful

2 жыл бұрын

Integrity? Not at all;( Compassion? I’ve rarely heard someone so filled with hate! He only sounds “intelligent”

@greengirl-kr1vf

2 жыл бұрын

@@JeepCherokeeful ABSOLUTE integrity

@joeymurdazalotmore6355

2 жыл бұрын

@@grannygotcha9809 noam chomsky is good. But modern day there is only one Chris hedges. Cannot b replaced.

@bobtaylor170

2 жыл бұрын

It is revolting in its blasphemy that Hedges calls same sex marriage a Sacrament. Does he not understand that he will be required to give an account for such twisting of truth?

Thank you so much for calling out people who call themselves journalists. They are entertainers. Period.

@stephenhardy312

3 жыл бұрын

Well said. Stephen, Macclesfield, UK

@jacquelinemarie1078

3 жыл бұрын

Even their contracts have to state ENTERTAINMENT because they are not news.

@jamespeck276

3 жыл бұрын

But who in the hell finds what they doing entertaining? I find them boring, obnoxious and a total waste of time. If you think they are entertaining, then I am sorry, you have been brainwashed. It happens.

@toothbrush5190

3 жыл бұрын

Not period. Most are CIA operatives!

@AaronB99999

2 жыл бұрын

There aren’t enough journalists left in this country to fill a VW bug. Just narrative minders and stenographers to power.

I've listened to many, many, Chris Hedges talks, and this is the one that pulls everything together.

@MS-in3sl

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Hedges is slowly but surely taking it to the next step.

@DIVISIONINCISION

5 жыл бұрын

@@MS-in3sl He's trying to compensate for the antagonist of an interviewer.

Thank God (and his parents) for Chris Hedges. A good compassionate man and a true intellectual.

As he was passionately talking about his students in Jail, those hard bitter biographies, full of injustice, couldn't help it, tears run down my face. That this kind of stories happen in the land of the free.....

That Chris, Noam and those like them are not seen more in on-screen policy discussions, such as those on panels on cable news programs, prove that the media is not liberal, but corporate.

@kwakkers68

5 жыл бұрын

The media: corporate, or liberal: As with any ideological/political labels - the key is to maintain focus on the model in question, or proposed, rather than assessing any given entity on rhetoric, or 'claimed' affiliation. An example of the need for this rigidity: both DC and Moscow claimed the USSR was 'Socialist', albeit for very different reasons. Generally, the term 'liberal' isn't helpful. Do we mean socially liberal, economically liberal...? This may well be one area where it is better to adopt European frames of reference, as many of the pertinent thinkers were European, and maintaining an anchor in original thought is perhaps the best way of overcoming the muddying of ideological waters seen in the USA - which incidentally, had not been coincidental (consider the Neo-Liberal onslaught against Higher Education, the commercialisation of Education, the content included in courses etc. All of which is designed to not only provide profit, blighting generations with chronic debt along the way (one means of control), but to provide ways of controlling thought - narrative, over empirical, accepted envelopes, over free range etc.

@claudiasutton8240

5 жыл бұрын

Chris is far to educated to hang out with the Corporate media. He comes from morality and truth. The B.S. and lies are fear based keeing the Sheeple from uniting, and outing these fraud politicians. Wake up U.S.

@user-qc8vj3vp9v

5 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY Jeff Biss - the media is part of the corporatist system. Unfortunately I don't see it changing any time soon, if ever. SAD.

@solid1378

5 жыл бұрын

That has been a long conclusion. Want real news not controlled by Corporate Overlords, check out Professor Wolff, Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, In The Now, Democracy Now, TYT, The Intercept, Now This News, The Real News Network, DW, etc.

@sherryburrows882

5 жыл бұрын

@@solid1378 Good ones, some I've never heard of but will check out. I also check on Al Jazeera English, Guardian UK, Reuters, and local papers in places like India, Australia, and Canadian cities. I don't know how honest they are about their local news, but they are much better about ours then our "news."

When the people are scared of the leaders, that, is tyranny, when the leaders are scared of the people, that is liberty. B Franklin.

@legalfictionnaturalfact3969

4 жыл бұрын

An upright leader has no reason to be afraid of the people. It's almost like he was talking about rulers. And a healthy Society has no rulers.

@johntao6822

4 жыл бұрын

@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 so, by your judgment, Ben Franklin. is full of sh*t, huh? Not by mine

@faithalessandri1879

3 жыл бұрын

Love that

@prgille

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Runner Benjamin Franklin was driven by the necessity of his times, just as we must be "guided" by the necessities of our times, holding on to that which is good and utterly rejecting that which is not in our individual and community-collective interests.

@jacquelinemarie1078

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for that quote, hope many read it.

For years I believed we are in this societys end/end of an Empire. Then, I discovered Chris Hedges & he confirmed what I've been feeling. Good man & good insight.

@jamberry8026

Жыл бұрын

Uh huh... Same here

I remember when President Jimmy Carter was mocked after his speech on America's malaise.

@NikoHL

3 жыл бұрын

Don't know that speech.. Is there a link? Will check it out..

Chris Hedges brought me to tears. So powerful.

@alexgeronimo8331

4 жыл бұрын

con men like Chris will alway do that to the weak ):

@CyberspacedLoner

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexgeronimo8331 Trump is the con man

@jetblack8250

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexgeronimo8331 If that makes him weak then you are an insect.

@chioma3100

3 жыл бұрын

Years ago he brought me awareness with the sacrifice zones and more recently to activism. We must rest when we are dead; no time now.

@christinaamendola4851

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexgeronimo8331 2 YRS LATER WHERE ARE YOU ONE THIS???

As far as I am concerned, we have two corporate/elite political parties that make platitudes to the different biases.

@richardscathouse

5 жыл бұрын

Only one party! With two fake wings.

@ArizonaWillful

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but do NOT equate them. As a gay man, I know intimately that there is a HUGE difference between the intolerant right wing bigoted GOP and the semi-liberal Democrats. They may be similar on economic issues/supporting the elite, but they could not be more different on social issues that face minority groups in the USA.

@rickbishop5987

5 жыл бұрын

You are, of course correct. I am however disgusted with the mock democracy and the constraints on who or what we can vote for. I would call them pretend liberals.

@JaIch9999

5 жыл бұрын

@@ArizonaWillful They are playing good cop bad cop.....

@workinprogress1822

5 жыл бұрын

Yes... but "Don't forget to vote!"

1:18:04 "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it" - Mark Twain

@CulinarySpy

3 жыл бұрын

Fake quote of course. Twain actually said “In this country we have one great privilege which they don’t have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That’s the finest asset we’ve got - the ballot box.”

@Mrgruntastic

3 жыл бұрын

The actual quote is by the American anarchist, Emma Goldman. “If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal”

@insiderich7372

3 жыл бұрын

@@CulinarySpy He never realized (perhaps because it did not apply to his time) that when your options on the ballot box are pretty much the same (Biden vs Trump at this particular moment), the ballot box can do nothing to save 'the people'.

@jacquelinemarie1078

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite quote and i put it on one of my tee shirt in hopes that it will awaken some.

@constancewalsh3646

3 жыл бұрын

Wow.

The clarity with which Chris Hedges exposes and explains the situation, is simply amazing and inspiring ! Bravo and thanks !!

Mesmerizing.... Chris Hedges brilliant beyond words.

@STScott-qo4pw

3 жыл бұрын

very very impressive mind. excellent speaker.

How sad to see such a tiny audience for such a great speaker...

@robertahubert9155

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Why is he not speaking at a University to the thinkers and future of this country?

@ttrons2

4 жыл бұрын

I think it is because people do not want to think about this because they feel it is hopeless.

@vladimir0700

4 жыл бұрын

@Tom Martin. No, it’s because we live in a totally dumbed down amerika

@eisvogel8099

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe the most know the truth but don't want to hear it.

@billwolfe6638

4 жыл бұрын

It is remarkable evidence of how deep in denial are Democrats and liberal intellectuals. Cambridge, a liberal and heavily Democratic town, is arguably the intellectual capitol of the US. Hedges attended Harvard Divinity School. Yet the NPR affiliate can only convince 30 people to show up for one of the intellectual giants in the US? Pathetic.

Of course Pinker's book is Bill Gate's favorite: it helps ease his guilty conscience.

Very captivating 84 minutes, with stories of great risks and courage, to show the world what needs to be seen. Thank you

Chris , you are Legend !! Every decent human on planet earth should be very proud of you !

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

Melvyn Gingell ahh the moral superiority of the far left ...

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

James Registe idiot I rail against the left and right - both are simple minded fools (like you, goat lover) who view every complex issue in black and white.

@mkkrupp2462

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s called dichotomous thinking. And it’s ruining public discourse all around the world.

@ardenritchie5722

4 жыл бұрын

Hedges is not a legend. Andrew Carnegie was a legend. Do not be so obtuse and read some history. Chris Hedges is a cynic.

@johntao6822

4 жыл бұрын

@@ardenritchie5722 Carnegie was a heartless exploiter. Hedges is a legend with heart. You're the cynic

Time is now more precious than ever, I intend to spend it wisely.

@reprogrammingmind

3 жыл бұрын

No such thing as wise spending. Invest it wisely.

If I haven’t already read the book, I will read every book you mention. It makes me cry, it fills my heart, it is humanity. Thank you Chris Hedges.

My goal... read all the books Chris refers to. Rather than being depressed listening to Mr Hedge’s, I’m comforted because I see humanity. The humanity in literature, the humanity in the men he teaches. If we don’t find that glimmer of humanity we cannot go on. I’m reminded of it here.

"The message sent by the state is clear: It does not fear criminals. It fears rebels." Read the book.

@mountaindweller777

3 жыл бұрын

This is heartbreaking.

@paddydunne774

3 жыл бұрын

Forgive me. I’m being a bit thick. Do you mean this one. I love that quote. I’m reeling from the essence of what your man is saying🍀

@timothygoosby6942

3 жыл бұрын

They are the rebels as well as criminals

@anniesue4456

3 жыл бұрын

... unfortunately it is starting to look that way

Continue speaking truth to power Chris Hedges, it's the right thing to do. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@edwardb7811

3 жыл бұрын

A man of great erudition.

@jacquelinemarie1078

3 жыл бұрын

For all of us.

94% of the incarcerated people never had a trial Let that sink in

@STScott-qo4pw

3 жыл бұрын

what? wtf? please explain. rsvp in YT. Thanks...

@reprogrammingmind

3 жыл бұрын

K, now what?

@justicewalking

3 жыл бұрын

@@STScott-qo4pw because they all took the plea deal. Very few cases actually go to trial and often the accused will be convinced into taking the plea deal, even when they are absolutely innocent, by their very low level legal aide that is appointed to them because they can't afford a lawyer. Many people will plead guilty to something they didn't do and spend 5 years in prison because the high risk of losing a trial and getting 25 years.

What a moving story of that prisoner who found freedom in resistance and lack of material comfort! I guess faith is the absolute alternative to the misery and bondage of materialism! It is interesting that Chris points out that not only thorough resistance one could find real freedom, but one could experience euphoria and real happiness! It is very motivating and encouraging. Thanks!

It's incredible how many new talks/interviews are coming out almost daily. He's really getting around! Great job, glad to see so many organizations and channels supporting his new book.

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

szymborska yeah - he's quite the (hypocritical) capitalist selling all those books ...

@scottlawder1269

5 жыл бұрын

what is he supposed to do, give them away? I don't see him trying to corner the market and force other competitors out to become a monopoly. Nor do I see him exploiting prison workers for profit or trying to get rid of pre-existing conditions for sick people.

@anti-skub2164

5 жыл бұрын

@@dannymandebo9507 such a foolish and tired argument

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

J H once again a far left tool who tells me I am wrong but not HOW I am wrong. When was it better? Answer!!!!

@anti-skub2164

5 жыл бұрын

@@dannymandebo9507 What a demanding child you are. You could do with nap, so I'll tell you a story. In a magical world beyond our own, there is a garden of talking flowers. Bob, a tulip, notices one day that the sun is not as bright and everyone is getting hungry. "Maybe it's the shadow of the giant statue" he thinks, remembering that King Dandelion recently built a massive statue of himself to loom over the garden. Bon went out to and started to tell everyone this statue was making them starve. However, the flowers accosted Bob for standing tall and blocking their sunlight. They decried him for doing the same thing, albeit on a much smaller scale, as the statue. Bob was confused. He tried many other ways to spread the message, he held free talks, he posted videos of his talks online. But still, other flowers noticed that he too cast a very small shadow - he had too, everyone did, living on Earth after all. "We all cast shadows sometimes," Bob said "but clearly this giant statue casts one and gives us little in return. My issue is not shadows, but rationally discussing when and how we should allow them to be cast" But still, assholes in the garden called Bob a hypocrite. And eventually they all died from lack or sunlight, cursing Bob the whole time.

Hedges is good. This may be his best in many months. Felt his message so deeply @ 50:11 - for all of us "witnesses" today. Thank you Chris. Thank you very much.

@lindacianchetti3599

5 жыл бұрын

Art Studio Starbucks???!!! Lord. The irony.

@LawFirm1970

2 жыл бұрын

Hedges is excellent

I am not a religious man but Chris Hedges erudition, his ability to speak on injustice, his witness on behalf of the oppressed, his empathy, his towering intellect and his prophetic literature penned from a deep understanding of the human condition is staggering. From war is a force that gives us meaning, through the Christian fascists and the Christian Right to Our class Trauma and Transformation in the American Prison system his portents have All come true. A truly remarkable man to which few can hold a candle to. Rock on Chris. I wish we heard more of your voice here in the UK!

1:14:00... such a powerful moment... deep inspiration, I gained a lot of respect for Chris Hedges

This is one of the most refreshing, unique, and important conversations/videos I've seen in a long time. Chris Hedges is one of (if not my absolute) favorite free-thinkers today. This topic he's talking about (corporate created culture of despair) is a topic HUGELY under-discussed.

@sicnarf423

4 жыл бұрын

Why do you have a 'favorite' thinker?

Considering his work of 20 years, it is amazing Chris Hedges is alive to tell a story. I don't share all of his views, but, I am gaining insight from watching his videos. Just an amazing human being

@STScott-qo4pw

3 жыл бұрын

i wonder he's alive, too, but it's more someone in the US hasn't bumped him off yet.

@shipaskof8371

2 жыл бұрын

One could add AA and other deceptions in the 12 step industry to the list along with magic jesus

@tabo01

2 жыл бұрын

The rules know lethargy is a goal.

Have just ordered "Footnotes in Palestine" also "Voltaire's Bastards' both recommended by Hedges. Hedges & Chomsky are my go-to authors to explain this morally bankrupt world.

Hedges is truly amazing. I never tire of him. Truly good, brilliant, honest, and a gift to all of us who are free thinkers seeking deep and thoughtful insight by someone who is driven by his inner self and a willingness to share with those who are willing to hear and see. When I listen to Hedges I feel fearless in knowing and wanting to make the corporations and politicians fear me and those like me. We are growing. And I intend to make sure they see.

"I knew I would never be rewarded for virtue."

We're going through a new Dark age; yet Chris Hedges remains a true Renaissance man.

@urgencepc4563

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the renaissance where "the small number makes the large number work" ... a bit like... business as usual?

Credit to WGBH and Christopher Lydon for bringing us this excellent interview. Been a viewer since they showed Monty Python's Flying Circus unedited and a listener since Robert J. Lurtsema played bird songs every morning on Morning Pro Musica. One of the great institutions of Boston.

Chris Hedges is the most eloquent and powerful truth-teller around. He is unique.A great journalist, a great social critic, a great moralist.

Despair is the only rational response thank you Chris Hedges. False hope is no solution.

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Kelly yes, waste your short life away in despair. How absurd...

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Singh-Dosanjh agreed!!! He is a tool.

@dannymandebo9507

5 жыл бұрын

James Registe your goat is calling you - back to the mud hut. Egypt ... Bahahaha!!

@ally11488

5 жыл бұрын

James Registe - Hitchens paved the way for the commodification internet 'intellectuals' trade on. Peterson, Shapiro, Harris, all financially benefit from credulity based on libertarian ideology.

@donnagaffney6467

5 жыл бұрын

you are wrong

I truly ask myself what will happen to us and our children...

@jacquelinemarie1078

3 жыл бұрын

I think we are getting the idea.

@helenbaxter5270

3 жыл бұрын

I know. I never dreamed that we would be in a pandemic and see our world the way it is now.

@amyshoemaker5770

3 жыл бұрын

Le chat.....Vanish!!!!

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

3 жыл бұрын

That depends on where you choose to spend your future.

"While we still have time"? According to Chris Hedges, I thought it was clear that we are out of time. Everything is shutting down. What can we possibly have time for now?

Of the great talks and books I've encountered by Chris so far, this jumps to the top as the one I'm now passing onto friends first saying 'Watch this - watch all of it'. Tears, resolve.

Hedges is telling the truth. Everything about the Corporate incarceration complex is true. I've seen it myself. After being released in 2012. Institution 6 months before release .They State or Corp who knows by now. We're removing all arts musical instruments 95 percent of the library which left 600. Plus inmates with about 200. Shitty paperback books per unit. Which were paid for for years. Can't imagine what it's like now. 28 32 bucks month I was paid to work in the kitchen. So you want work out in the weight room.? 5.00 please. Payable to the state. Your 28 is now 23. So on so forth. It's an insane money sucking system. That has nothing to do with justice. Safety or reforming offenders.

@ursulaplatt5000

5 жыл бұрын

He just seems to enjoy the hell of it all too much. He's a bit of a fantacist.

@ursulaplatt5000

5 жыл бұрын

The prison system is where you put unskilled, undesirable pop. Chinese workers not fat Americans without geds

@kingtrance6826

4 жыл бұрын

@ Ursula Rue B Go away Russian Troll.

@krunkle5136

3 жыл бұрын

@Kathryn Foster-martin it's as if public executions were a thing again people will come out of the woodwork to cheer. Criminals aren't human anymore, including the ones that go back to society.

@supercool1238

3 жыл бұрын

Slave camps

Chris Hedges is one of the few people who give me goosebumps while I listen,if more Christians were like him I would consider becoming one myself,even though I’m an atheist.

Is that a Starbucks cup of coffee? The power of corporations indeed!

"Praying to my Presbyterian God that no one would Google me" 😂 omg that's wild!

I listened to the podcast yesterday, then found the video this morning and watched. Very interesting and informative and serious in the best possible ways. Chris Hedges is an amazing man with an incredible heart and mind; few people, in my opinion, can match his comprehensive analysis of these terrible times in which we're living. Thanks to all involved. (Note to Chris Lydon: Alas, Bovi's, in East Providence, is no more. The jazz is gone, the old building has been razed.)

@CrrzyFox

5 жыл бұрын

Which podcast fellow human. Would love to subscribe to the podcast

@johnpaul5474

5 жыл бұрын

+CrzyFox It was the podcast version of the video; same conversation, no video. Lydon has a regular podcast, always very interesting, with highly intelligent guests. I don't have access to it right now. GOOGLE "Christopher Lydon" and see what you find.

@johnpaul5474

5 жыл бұрын

+CrzyFox It's called "Open Source." Excellent guests, excellent host, the best.🎃

Chris, I have only found you recently. I have been sleep. wasted life. The path ahead is clearer, my thoughts firmer, I feel empowered and the mosaic seems to take on a meaningful and purposeful shape. I salute you.

Voices like his give me hope to go on. Thank you, Chris Hedges.

"It's my voice you hear but it's my fathers words..."... Mr Hedges you are a blessing to us

Stephen Pinker is a joke and a pseudo-intellectual. Glad he gets called out here.

@joqqy8497

5 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@pakalupapito1528

5 жыл бұрын

hey could tell me where in this video they speak about Pinker? i cant find that part! thank you.

@mikecar52

4 жыл бұрын

@@pakalupapito1528 Why not watch it and listen , you will soon know.

@MrPiccolop

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, along with Guys like Jordan Peterson which god knows why all these guys latch onto like theres no tomorrow....

@martinirving3824

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikecar52 , Yeah, Steve Pinker is drawn to good news the way Chris Hedges is drawn to bad news. Guess who gets far more media exposure. I'm interested in nutrition science. This has also effectively been corporatized over the course of the 20th century and is not trustworthy. There is a political push for vegetarian and veganism in the interests of health and "sustainability" that is not based on fact or science. (even Hedges has bought into this disinformation and propaganda). Anyone who promotes a plant-based diet enjoys far more media exposure. Michael Pollan, who wrote In Defense of Food has said, "Eat real food. Mostly Plants. Not too much." He is hailed as an authority of some type in mainstream sources. Gary Taubes, who wrote Good Calories, Bad Calories has also concluded, eat real food. But he would advocate an animal-based diet for most people. Taubes doesn't enjoy the same media profile (is often dismissed as a mere journalist, which is all Pollan is), even though he is more qualified than Pollan to talk on the subject of science as it would relate to nutrition.

This man has informed me for more then a decade and has introduced me (skilled worker and a parent) to many authors from humanity's past and present that help me contextualize my own beliefs. Thank you Chris Hedges much love from Canada ! You've given me tools to make political decisions .

Use grants to buy land and form off-grid communities. Perhaps use hydrogen fuel cells, salt-silicone batteries perhaps. Include Natropaths, herbalists, energy workers, plumbers, mechanics, teachers, farmers, leaders, sewers, musicians...

@BeckyAnnHill

3 жыл бұрын

Where does one go to find a community to start learning how to build this? This sounds amazing.

@sylviewalker7560

3 жыл бұрын

Cohousing community are forming all over the country and world.

Yes, we are lonely Chris Hedges, because no one knows what we are talking bout.

@jacquelinemarie1078

3 жыл бұрын

Not enough, anyway.

This guy is so good- I hope he isn’t “disappeared”....

@mE-zx7pt

2 жыл бұрын

He has been disappeared from most of the mainstream news media.

America:The farewell Tour? Sounds about right.

Got done reading this book about a month ago and it was pretty good. Think I am gonna re-read it again pretty soon.

I absolutely LOVE Chris Hedges with all my heart = a real life intellectual and Saint of our Time 🙏

Hedges Rocks ! A person with resilience and truth. an inspiration...

SOCIAL REVOLUTION not Technology innovation. The truth!

@aldeigagnon8840

5 жыл бұрын

the real free entreprise

@thebrocialist8300

5 жыл бұрын

All tech innovations are oriented toward the hegemonic system of capitalist consumption and exploitation. They offer no solutions beyond (possibly) producing tools for sabotage.

@christinaamendola4851

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebrocialist8300 ? IT CAN BE USED FOR GOOD, LET'S FIND IT!

One of the titans of thought. Hope you stay with us for many more years to come.

Thank you Chris, you are a force, a light, an oak tree growing strong, surrounded by chicken liver corporate goons.

whoever the hell is interviewing chris is bananas

@christinaamendola4851

3 жыл бұрын

WELL NOT HALF AS CRAZY AS THE ONE IN THE WH!

Mr. Hedges, finally the truth has a voice and a face. "God", Sir, made you out of the right stuff. Ye ye

Absolutely incredible truth when Mr Hedges speaks of his father. Truly inspirational. What a remarkable and strong man. A hero to us all.

I feel very touched hearing Chris's story about his father & how he sacrified his career for upholding the truth. That is what I call SELF INTEGRITY AND FAITH. Many people will sell themselves for money and safety. NOT THIS MAN 👍👍👍

"I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products." Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

@georgerasmutin699

4 жыл бұрын

From book?

@carlwessels2671

3 жыл бұрын

@JRGJRG But he was telling the truth.

How ironic that those who deserve prison the most-trump and many others in government-will never spend a single day there

@eave01

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno...I could see him getting time

@hazelatkinson4882

3 жыл бұрын

True

@rosssmith6775

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately most of the population get all their information from the mainstream media and that's it unfortunately that media is owned buy a small very powerful and nefarious group of people and you obviously have no idea

@eave01

3 жыл бұрын

@@rosssmith6775 oh...but I do. Sadly all of our country has been hijacked by billion dollar companies and both the right media and left media are are completely owned.

@BiggestRedditor

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha lol. What did he do illegal again? I forgot. Refresh my memory.

Every time I watch Chris Hedges speak, I am always one moving reference from his father away from crying.

What an amazing conversation. Thank you.

Thank you

You're amazing Chris. Thank you.

Chris is brilliant and such an incredible communicator. He really gets the big picture.

I love this man always touching many in truth. Wish we had leaders in his mind set

Chris Hedges gets it. The left wing. The right wing. Different sides of the same vulture. The elite all crush individuals. I love the dismissal of Pinker. He's just another phony old hippie with a bad haircut.

@pimwiersinga8822

3 жыл бұрын

I like Pinker's haircut (and boots); but it does not matter one bit. I adhere somewhat to his -- very broad -- notions of progress, but his idea that all lives were brutish, nasty & short before the invention of the stock-market strikes me as nonsensical. You need explanations beyond mere stats; as well as a sense of the tragic.

@Kid_Ikaris

3 жыл бұрын

@@High_Valley beautifully put. These types put down the hopeful the way the miserable put down the joyful.

@monicaangelini3324

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I found embarrassing and very close minded his dismissal. Didn't expect that, thought for a self-righteous-christian Mr. Hedges lacked humility. And this is my issue with him, I like his arguments, his historical and political perspective but the righteousness and morality is off putting...nonetheless I keep watching and reading him.

@Kid_Ikaris

3 жыл бұрын

@@monicaangelini3324 hmm I wonder about that too. He certainly seems dower, I wonder if he has a softer side at home. I find myself drawn to more pessimistic thinkers simply because many other public intellectuals just don't seem to acknowledge how bad some of the crisises we find ourselves in are. I'm thinking of the climate crisis and the monetary/economic crisis in particular.

@mamamarianovits9029

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kid_Ikaris The manufactured climate crisis... sure.

What a breath of fresh air! I'm moved to tearing up.

Thank you Chris for the truth. God Bless You!!!

Usually, I gloss over Hedges' talks and interviews because I know what to expect. This is not to disparage Hedges, whom I admire tremendously, just stating a thought. However, here he really does pull together the scope and depth of his insight and understanding, and, as others have commented, "takes things to the next level." This is a very refreshing and strangely inspirational talk for November 5, 2020.

Sincere and profound thanks to you Chris, for me a moment cathartic in a positive sense, affirmative but I've chosen to leave the "American" scene, I've always felt I'd live to see the fall, as one who was a proud American for one moment, it was 63, I was eight doing duck and cover. President Kennedy, when they killed him, it was the beginning of the end. Those who rule now are devouring the planet like the bones after the roast, I feel. We've got to save the planet, especially find a new way to treat our only hope , Water ! Everybody please read Masuru Emoto's Book !

Excellent talk. It is such a pleasure to hear real intellectuals speak on important issues. As a kid I remember watching debates between Gore Vidal and Bill Buckley, fascinating. Exposure to truth is uplifting and a warm light in a dismal world.

I love and give thanks to Hedges. I agree with him on almost everything and he teaches me many many things. And even I, as a very positive Rastafarian, agree with his view on a collective positivity. Being positive is, in the midst of understanding the terror that is our lives, knowing that it will probably destroy us and everyone we love, choosing to be happy and treat others with kindness anyway. At the same time knowing, understanding, and willing to display a righteous vengeance against those who are killing us. Knowing that, we smile as we are being tortured because the very act of that torture proves us right in everything we say and, some day, the world will see it and, just maybe, but probably not, learn from it. One Love ✌🏼 Rastafari❤💛💚

Speeches like this should be required "listening" and "watching" to all high school students-and, really, to all of us period. Kudo's to Chris Hedges for this and so much else

“It is much safer to celebrate civil liberties than to defend them, and it is much safer to defend them as a formal right than use them in a politically effective way. Even those who would most willingly subvert these liberties, usually do so in their very name. It is easier still to defend someone else’s right to have used them years ago than to have something yourself to say NOW and to say it now forcibly. The defense of civil liberties-even of their practice a decade ago-has become the major concern of many liberal and once leftward scholars. All of which is a safe way of diverting intellectual effort from the sphere of political reflection and demand.” - C. Wright Mills

@paystar3436

5 жыл бұрын

Hope sir will not prevail. Action may have a chance. Your action is needed.What is your solution ? Your history share is the future without your help.

@sanjios

2 жыл бұрын

This is how US military is "liberating" Middle East and "liberated" many countries around the world, bombing them to middle edges. Supporting dictatorships all around the world, and still does.

I thought Viktor Klemperer was in Dresden, been awhile since I read his diaries. Nice to hear Hedges mentioning them here - a real must-read: "I Will Bear Witness".

@ernstraedecker6174

4 жыл бұрын

Victor Klemperer lived indeed in Dresden. I've read his diaries 1918-1932 (Weimar period), 1933-1945 (Dritte Reich) , and 1945-1960 (DDR).

One of the greatest lessons I have learned that if you are not completely honest about what the problem is, you can not ever solve that problem. I think that this is what Chris is trying to explain but is accused of being too negative or pessimistic instead of brave enough to not sugarcoat the truth.

A scholarly, sincere and cogent talk, as is characteristic of Christopher Hedges. Well said, well done!

He has a lot of interesting points, a bit pessimistic but that's how many journalists view the world seeing as good news doesn't attract as much attention as the bad. His point of view from the perspective of a teacher in today's prison system is really eye opening. A lot of us forget that we have a prison system designed to make profit slaves as opposed to rehabilitation.

@GalacticNovaOverlord

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say Hedges is optimistic. The more you learn about history and the systems of the world and how much we keep screwing ourselves, the worse everything seems. The more people know this, the greater our chances are if we organize together to stop this.

This nothingness, this unnatural death of democracy is larger than party. It is a sickness of the soul of the culture. It's not "culture" in the classical definition of the word... Egyptian culture, roman culture... hell, even the culture of San Bushmen or the Inuit culture is closer to a true culture. As Hedges so perfectly states the culture of the west is based on commercialism, the money, the negotiation. Everything is for sale, land that isn't yours, air and even souls. How many do unspeakable things that go against their nature in order to live in this culture? 14:57 and hedges says it far better.

Geez, this interviewer is so shortsighted and, to a degree, in denial. He just doesn't get it. Chris is a national treasure, truly.

We are eating our own tail.

INTELLIGENCE COURAGE TRUTH. YOUR A BEAUTIFUL PERSON CHRIS HEDGES.

Love you, Mr Hedges. Thanks, man.

Chris Hedges is saying: "There are challenges. They are here... And we can change when we do the following. In reality, he's offering creative solutions to the world challenges"

Chris is my hero. Thank you for educating me-!

Chris hedges is a very special person!............

what i really like about Chris Hedges is that he talks more sense than most economists!

@DIVISIONINCISION

5 жыл бұрын

...except Milton Friedman!

So Im watching for about the 4th time since this came out during this covid lockdown and cannot fully wrap my head around how accurate this is

very cogent perspective on our times. hes really on to it.