90 years old and still an optimist.

@JacktheRah

4 жыл бұрын

​@Nim Chimpsky/videos Of course. I would never think of him as a careless optimist. I'm just impressed because I'm in my mid 20s and already lost all hope for the future.

@punchcat1234

4 жыл бұрын

JacktheRah don’t stay strong the establishment wants that never give in

@millerk20

4 жыл бұрын

Not really optimistic. More like a necessary pragmatism tempered with a fair amount of pejorism.

@willywanker8950

4 жыл бұрын

@GOG and MAGOG O K B O O M E R relax/study/chill

@philwatterson8179

4 жыл бұрын

@@willywanker8950 ooh look at you an original thinker!

It's painful to see him this old

@versaarchi

4 жыл бұрын

aditya raj same

@amrosamaha6527

4 жыл бұрын

he is still really sharp though

@marieinnes2382

4 жыл бұрын

Will Smith Was this truly a necessary comment, even if just meant to be a joke to raise a laugh? Noam Chomsky deserves so much more respect than this. I hope the feeling you received when making this comment was very fleeting.

@tomj210

4 жыл бұрын

be grateful he has lived this long, and is still able to impart his wisdom upon us

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

getting old sure beats the alternative.

beard chomsky out here seizing the means of reproduction

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

Derek Levesque - possibly the feeling of the diminishment of time ?

@Frisbieinstein

4 жыл бұрын

@@humanbeing5300 He saw Julian Assange's embassy style and said, "Hey, I could do that."

It's amazing how someone can be so brilliant yet given no airtime on US media

@christinearmington

4 жыл бұрын

Doodelay Also Bernie, amirite? ✨😎

@uttaradit2

4 жыл бұрын

thats why

@somenothing7914

4 жыл бұрын

amazing yet not unbelievable

@TheUnholyPosole

4 жыл бұрын

@@christinearmington ...na, Bernie's lame.

@JeanAriaMouy

4 жыл бұрын

He is viewed as a "paranoid" who sees plots everywhere and he is far to left wing for American mainstream media. Even in France (!) a man of his caliber is sometime ranked in that sort of ridiculous lists.

Guys, he is 90 almost 91.

@Mitchery

4 жыл бұрын

He turns 91 this December.

@redlady935

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mitchery 92 now 😢

@pacotaco1246

3 жыл бұрын

Someone figure out how to shorten telomeres already!!

Noam Chomsky once said, what he is doing (politically) is very easy and not intellectual challenging (like his work in linguistics). He said, we only have to look and there are plenty of data available.. all we have to do is LOOK......

@AJ_Evo

4 жыл бұрын

I heard him say that exact thing in a recent interview with Lawrence Krauss. It also resonated with me. It also made me fearful of the dreaded day when we lose Noam Chomsky. Because I don't see anyone around today who comes close to being a similar voice of reason. He says all we have to do is look, but he seems to have been the only person who has consistently seen the way things really are for the past 50 years. And that's terrifying.

@thehellyousay

4 жыл бұрын

Can't see if you don't look, can you?

@asuka_the_void_witch

4 жыл бұрын

he says this because he is extremely intelligent so it's not hard for him to "look". his proverbial vision is much sharper than most people

@charlesweaver9297

2 жыл бұрын

There is just as much data to counter many of the things he talks about. It's not like he figured out something remarkable. He just provides a leftist lens to look through

We really can't afford to lose people like Chomsky

I was a furios neglected teen punk back in -99 when I run into -Chomsky - it was ... well one can never view the world around the same way ever again... - Life changing - 🙏🙏❤️ One of the most prominent intellectuals /thinkers of our times. Ever Grateful for Him🙏❤️

And the award for the best No Shave November look goes to Chomsky.

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

Nim Chimpsky - Chomsky is the last person on earth who needs to grow hair to protest. And your name is insulting to the man.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

It is outragous that a teenager as great as she is is the face of this issue. She's a kid! The adults are supposed to protect kids like her. Noam has the knowledge and wisdom of a million men. One of the strongest among us. Thank you Laureate Professor Chomsky for opening our eyes for 80 years. You've shown us a way forward. The rest of us have to to take action. PS: I say 80 because I know he wrote your first essay on the Spanish Civil War when he was an adolescent in school lol).

@mator2339

4 жыл бұрын

He wrote it also against the nazis when was 10 in 1934. Truly one of the greatest intellectuals of our times.

@Arrbyy

4 жыл бұрын

Noam's thoughts here are maddeningly ambiguous. There's no need for it, but then he's lost the plot. Greta is a being abused. Cory Morningstar and many others have shown by who and why. Noam has no time for independent journos doing real research (and possibly outshining him). He will quote fake alt/progressive media, favorably. But that's it. He's establishment. And, as Stephen Gowans and others point out, he's no longer anti-imperialist. What a shame!

@dereksmallsuk

4 жыл бұрын

@@Arrbyy My arse.

@sirspongadoodle

Жыл бұрын

@@Arrbyy damn.. you are really not smart enough to follow any other views than the news..

@auggiemarsh8682

Жыл бұрын

He's definitely establishment. Greta is an absolute shrill, a puppet. She's been groomed by the elites (those benefiting from the green tech that supposedly will save us all) from the very beginning.

What he said in those last 20 seconds is the only inspirational quote I have actually been inspired by. I just had to write it down.

*Oh captain, my captain.*

I hope a new Noam Chomsky emerges for the new generation.

@nicholas6870

4 жыл бұрын

we have the real one right now and nothing changes anyway

@mailtv910

3 жыл бұрын

Why would we need a new Chomsky? There never was a "New Shakespeare" or a "New Einstein".

@kylebfeye9850

3 жыл бұрын

@@mailtv910 yeah kinda

@Llllltryytcc

3 жыл бұрын

We all should channel our inner Noam, and maybe make a better world like he said. :)

@charlesweaver9297

2 жыл бұрын

Chomsky while competent is overrated. His leftist ideology is unrealistic and has little chance of ever being successful if implemented.

wise indeed. He's bordering on quoting SunTzu, if he took it further: "opportunities multiply as they are siezed"

It will be a sad, sad day when this man passes away. In my humble opinion, it will arguably be the world's greatest loss. If we were to truly follow his thinking, principles, and suggestions, the world would be, I think, as close to perfection as it can be.

@zsmith4853

Жыл бұрын

Well said, agreed.

What a simple perfect statement, Noam makes. You have two choices! What clarity of thought this man has!

@Paretozen

4 жыл бұрын

Except it's not two choices. At worst climate change will displace a lot of people. Cause economic crises. Maybe release a pathogen or two. Cause a few wars. What else is new? I'd say we are long over due as humanity. Then 100 years from now, the world will be entirely different. Who knows what will happen then? Chomsky should know how humanity changes, in all aspects. From technology to social to environmental.

@HoraceTheClown

4 жыл бұрын

@@Paretozen at its worst, climate change will spur the collapse of the biosphere, after which organized human life will no longer be possible

It will be a most grim day when this beautiful intellectual leaves us indeed.

The earth will continue on without us just fine.

@PRBTNB

4 жыл бұрын

No one leaves Hell.

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Whitfield - or will we just whimper away because of thirst..

@PRBTNB

4 жыл бұрын

How will your energy disappear? You forget. You are owned. Your souls are eterrnal. Heaven or hell.

@drew9928

4 жыл бұрын

@@PRBTNB the energy within your cells will be consumed by the earth. We are all made from elements born from stars. We are all one entity called the universe. U could say we are the universe contemplating itself... just my personal opinion.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

@@shiitakestick Melting ice caps, more water but dying of thirst? Interesting theory.

Great content but please amplify the audio at least 2x

The man is a National Treasure even if most of the nation doesn't know it.... yet.

@roberthertz6634

4 жыл бұрын

A NATION of Blount scull s. Evolution may SOLVE that challenge for HUMANS. Maybe NOT

Oh time flies. As a linguistic student I’m so happy that we’re still living under the same sky. 🌌

Couldn't understand a word of what he said! Any chance of sub titles?

Is that portrait in the back of Machado de Assis?

Noam talks about Greta speech at the UN. And how they bob their heads. Would calling these bobbing heads. Bobble Heads be a reach?

She's proof that wisdom does not come with age. It's an action, a pursuit only. And this pursuit can in actuality be lost over the course of time.

How can Chomsky feel effective over his lifetime given innumerable articles, books, speeches, and interviews and the current state of world?

@AJ_Evo

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder that also. People dismiss him for constantly saying the same thing. But if he's repeating the same message, then that just tells me that humanity isn't learning from its own mistakes

@thehellyousay

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, he was supposed to be a messiah and save your stupid lazy ass, was he?

@elguapo9637

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he's just not as smart as some would like him to be.

A truth pioneer. Noam has bought so much enlightenment to our species, i often wonder how much worse off we would be without him.

The last quote about optimistic nihilism is the only quote I will ever remember and keep dear.

Said like a true prophet in the wilderness of this world. He has shouted from the mountaintop all his life. "Never Surrender!" Precious few ever heard. Still: Never surrender.

He doesn’t move much does he ? And his lips don’t move when speaks either ! Impressive indeed.....

Ben Shapiro vs Noam Chomsky never happened because it would have destroyed Shapiro’s career.

@visionofdisorder

4 жыл бұрын

shapiro never argues with anyone who could realistically challenge him

@GTN3

4 жыл бұрын

And Noam knows better than to engage with idiots.

Don't read the comment section

@elguapo9637

4 жыл бұрын

No comment.

Nice picture of Machado de Assis in the background.

Wish I could have understood what he's saying - I'm 76 - is it the audio or my ancient ears?

@darkhorse5232

4 жыл бұрын

The audio wasn't the best here.

where's the rest of us? on KZread watching Noam Chomsky to make ourselves feel good

Funny how the people who do "something" are so critized by those who do "nothing".

@toxendon

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly... she didn't accept a prize, she is arrogant. If she accepted the prize, she would be called a hypocrite. She is damned either way because it's not really about her substance. They are threatened by her and unwilling to realize we all need to change our ways of living. They're like the retired school teacher coming in on Friday to teach an extra class, they dont give a fuck about what's happening cause they will be gone soon anyway

he has mastered the art of stillness

@stevefranklin9176

4 жыл бұрын

William Weinberg whereas you yet the art of silence.

@williamweinberg9509

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevefranklin9176 I can type while staying silent 😂

@tomkent4656

4 жыл бұрын

At his age that isn't difficult!

1:08 Hold my Beer 🍻 "Fart" 🤫 🌬

@td7124

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

Why are we here? What are we going to do? Who’s going to clean it up? Question #3 is upon us.... Alan Watts

@stijndelie1458

4 жыл бұрын

Who started it, where are we going to put it, who's going to clean up, is it serious ?

@chancerobinson5112

4 жыл бұрын

Stijn Delie : paraphrasing 🙏🕉

@stijndelie1458

4 жыл бұрын

@@chancerobinson5112 Comes down to the same thing...

Your Wisdom Is Peerless and Timeless Greatest Noam Chomsky....

rocky 4 in the log cabin.

Damn he is painfully right. I am sure he thought his last sentence was meant to be encouraging. That would be so wrong. Countless people are desperate enough to choose option one. Simply stating that the choice is there won’t do much.

Noam...Greta is a planted opportunist well trained...you must discern before you comment

@1981Dead

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, mom is a singer and dad, an actor/director both with connections in Sweden to the left. Did you see the footage when she and her parents were confronted by a real journalist In Canada? He told them that since climate change was an election issue in Canada, they had to register as foreign interests in the Canadian election and disclose who was funding them. Their reaction was to call for security saying that they were being harassed. Follow the money.

@984francis

4 жыл бұрын

So standing up for the future of life on this planet is not ok with you?

@peterq6598

4 жыл бұрын

@@984francis Bro it's all hype and money-making scam benefitting a certain class of people...Africa a CONTINENT with such great Natural Potential why is it NOT develope for the benefit of the world instead it is being SUPPRESSED...Africa can feed a Clean world with its RESOURCES...I am no Pundit or philosopher but having god's gift of common sense

@peterq6598

4 жыл бұрын

and I have the greatest RESPECT for NOAM

@peterq6598

4 жыл бұрын

@UCpeSo9s9c2a1HfcQbGb1L3A Who??? you ??? with sixShooter shooting BLANKS??? ...wake up to the REAL WORLD!!! ... if given the OPPORTUNITY Africa can Feed the WORLD 7x7...Imagine not like the way John Lennon wrote BUt in reality... Israel & China can turn Desert into Oasis to feed their people...Africa is a NATURAL God-given OASIS suppressed by the Evils of Money Spinners spinning for a Clean World when they are the ones DIRTYING it!!!

Noam- God bless and your words of wisdom have been received. It’s up to us.

At that point if I hear a recording of Chomsky with a good audio I'd genuinely be disappointed.

whoa bearded chomsky

Indeed, where’s the rest of us? Nowhere.

He’s done so much to serve the world 🌎

Sounds like crap. Thank Zeus for subtitles.

@thejew1789

3 жыл бұрын

this is a great comment

I think our civilization as we know it is doomed. It's just a matter of how bad we want it to let it be after that happens.

@susanwilson9241

4 жыл бұрын

@Andy Clifft - This is different because it's on a global scale. Never before has every human civilization collapsed. It is our entire way of life that is at stake here. We could have saved it and possibly even improved it if governments had listened to the climate scientists 30 years ago when they first started warning what was coming.

In the book Shikasta by Doris Lessing, youth armies take over the world in revolt then putting a single old government official on trial for all the crimes against the earth.

@elguapo9637

4 жыл бұрын

In the book The Bible by Another Bunch of Morons, God destroys the old world and makes a new, pure and good one for all the good, pure and virtuous folk. Then he blames Satan for all the bad, dirty and disgusting stuff that happened. Like probably climate change and capitalism. Right?

@breakingbinds

4 жыл бұрын

@@elguapo9637 Doris LEssings books I find amazing, I suppose you haven't read them no. But good point kind of and maybe. Satan might have been the main point of subversion. There might have been foul play by Sat. Just like capitalism. It subverts and preys on weakness specifically crafted to degenerated the consumer. But yes we the people in ahmerka let the poisoning happen. Around the world people are rising up and fighting back for there lives. Those are the people that we look down upon from our high stead.

Greta has done well to understand how our society works at such a young age; she understands that people are ill informed, politicians arent problem-solvers and of the huge power corporations have.

Controlled Chomsky

Thanks for the subtitles! :)

I did give up driving a motor vehicle. Will that help? Peace.

4 The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things! We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue! I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before God.

He is a master and why he said is exactly what we have to do. Look for what we can do to change this situation instead of giving up

@gaspard7052

4 жыл бұрын

Sure. Go vegan. Chomsky isn't vegan. He just contributes to climate change with his unethical diet. So he practices greenwaching and his actions are not consistent with his discourse. Let's be better than that.

@1981Dead

4 жыл бұрын

@@gaspard7052 If things really are that bad from CO2 going vegan won't matter. If there really is a CO2 threshold for irreversible climate change, once we've passed it, game over. The only viable solution is to remove CO2 from our atmosphere using CO2 scrubbers. Translation: Go plant a tree.

@gaspard7052

4 жыл бұрын

​@@1981Dead no. You should have a look a the science. Scientifics at the UN wrote the Vegan diet should be adopted. And also how could you both eat meat (wich is the responsible for 90% of amazone forest destruction) and think that you can compensate this damager by planting a tree. You're delusionnal. Animal agriculture is responsible for forest destruction. I used to be a radical leftist but the more I speak to leftist the more I see they just enjoy harming animals and the environment while braging about their commitment to justice. They don't care. It's appalling.

Opened my horizon

I'm waiting for his opinion on Greta Van Fleet

He did some important work on the theory and structure of language, unfortunately he has really lost me on this one.

You mean teenaged stooges.

In the long run.. when everyone in the world becomes an optimist than what do we have... crab people, children of the corn and Martha Stewart.

Norm Is one of the most brilliant men in the world. If only people would listen! Someday they may wish they had Listened.

@danyalkazmi1400

4 жыл бұрын

He's in like every psychology and linguistics texbook, revolutionary thinker...was certainly listened to and is one of the most cited scholars of all time

@elguapo9637

4 жыл бұрын

They said the same about that Jesus kid.

Where is the rest of us?

All intellectuals, thinkers and cultivated people look better with beard 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

@caimacd

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. It's where the wisdom is stored.

@hyennussquatch4597

4 жыл бұрын

Especially women.

@GoofRebelMusic

4 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna buy one.

@AFilmaciones

4 жыл бұрын

Albert Camus, Sartre and Foucault disagree.

@tarico4436

4 жыл бұрын

Currently, I too am cultivating a pube garden on my face. (Transplants, you know.)

There are talkers and there are doers. Don't confuse the two.

@roberthertz6634

4 жыл бұрын

Which r u

Jesus he’s still kicking

how far gone are these 187 people that disliked the vid eh?

Greta vs. the most dangerous organization in human history.

@elguapo9637

4 жыл бұрын

@Rafael Acosta She speaks English with a Swedish accent. That's good enough for the rubes.

Glad we have a president who calls out the manufacturing of concent in mainstream media

Umm id disagree with Chomsky on the hope aspect with this one.... But Chomsky is a lot more knowledgeable than I and his credibilty far exceeds my own so forget what I think and I will trust Chomsky when he says there is.

Criticizing is easy, as Noam has demonstrated for his entire career. Laying out workable solutions, as Noam never does, is another matter entirely.

@billymacdermott360

Жыл бұрын

your type of snipey little criticism is easy, as you have just demonstrated .......doing what Chomsky has done i.e devoting an entire life to clearly and in detail bringing to light the many hypocrisies, contradictions , crimes, injustices and just basic unworkability of the way we are living is not . Also , he certainly has offered credible alternatives and has written extensively about how and why those alternatives are resisted by those few who benefit short time from our current insanity .......

i think the lead and to be active by young poeple it should be normal that should be what teens work on in there spare time not only just on games on some platform i think people should reise there kids to become more aware because if no one stand were doomed by the corps governments world order all the system will crush us

@elguapo9637

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Indoctrination IS the answer!

His time is almost over, and ours may be as well.

Often we see those who are intellectual black belts, yet simultaneously, completely void of wisdom

I respect this man's work. His theory on "Manufacturing Consent" is so true. Greta is concerned about ecology while Chomsky was concerned with mass media. Both are heroes of our time.

There are many Chomskies in the world.. Its that they are not known widely. They have huge fan base for their ideas.. Its just the supporters should unite to establish a new world order acceptable to all. I suggest everyone to promote the tag #CooperativeSocialism towards a moneyless society, that can bring peace and prosperity for all of humanity.

For a second there i thought he said "Fucking marvellous person", but it was just his idiosyncratic 'ok?'

Is there a pitch shift option on KZread? Love Chomsky but his voice keeps getting lower and it’s getting hard to hear !

So prestigious with the beard

Oh Noam, if only many more of you existed.

As far as i caught it during the first moments , yes. Why the young?

It is sad to see a man as old as him to lose his grasp of reality and be so easily duped by whatever he is told by his handlers to represent reality. But I see it happen, sadly, more and more often. Old people are manipulated and young people are manipulated into believing some crazy nonsense is reality.

I can't hear or understand him well because of the age 😢

How is he still alive? Wouldn't the elites already knock him out?

What will we do when Noam is no longer around to speak truth to power?

@roberthertz6634

4 жыл бұрын

SAME THING we r CURRENTLY doing. NOT MUCH.

One of the greatest intellectuals of all times. He’ll tell you one thing, and one thing only: The truth.

Respect

I like how Noam Chomsky has no real solutions to any of the world's problems without mentioning a political system that exists in theory but not in reality.

The world has been here for four and a half billion years.... No way in hell is it going to be gone in a couple of years from now....... The older he gets the less sense he makes...... In his younger days he was pretty Sharp , my opinion he's drastically falling apart......

@Quaquadaqu

4 жыл бұрын

Chuck Marquart He’s talking about humans dying out, idiot.

He's 90 thinking, "why a 16 year old? Where's the rest?" Damn just think about that. I am annoyed by Greta but if everyone actually cared even a little more about the environment and keeping it clean she wouldn't even exist.

@user-sc5cr8rg9h

9 ай бұрын

sure, big corpos do the most damage to nature, then they lobby their pretty girl to make common folk feel guilty for the single fact of its existence

Planet earth can get by without the help of'' wise '' old men and naive kids.....in fact when humans are not even a distant memory the planet will be doing fine.

@bobjohnbowles

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but we won't.

Noam sayin' ? I don't buy it.

@jeffreygranger6913

4 жыл бұрын

@Raine Riny 7 Seems to me his mind is made up. The climate has been changing ever since we've had climate. It's a DEBATE, NOT an established fact. This 98 percent of the scientists agree argument is not factual. So, Noam, I don't buy it. Stupid is as stupid does. A high IQ or educational pedigree doesn't make a person who possesses them right all the time. Either the argument has merit or it doesn't. In this case, it doesn't.

@jeffreygranger6913

4 жыл бұрын

@Dugie Doogs Why, thank you!!REALLY

Chomsky's finally lost it.... She's not a "marvelous person," she's a whiner backing a chic, pseudo-scientific cause.

@dirthawk

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Martel in what other fields of science do you know better than the consensus? wake the fuck up Einstein

@nevilledsouza9467

4 жыл бұрын

Chomping ski never had it

Chomsky went full David lettermen after retiring from MIT

He is close....

Noam and Greta may someday share the same padded room.

@rogerdiogo6893

4 жыл бұрын

I could take a *free* electric vehicle for xmas too, since Greta is getting one, nothing personal, just equality!

Lmao @ at the Chomsky ball lickers: "I hate seeing Chomsky this old"

Poor old Commie ..... sigh.