Chris Hedges "Death of the Liberal Class"
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2010
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Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day of this presentation at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on October 17, 2010 is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Produced by The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY, this event was co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
Here at RUclips University, Hedges is one of my main professors.
Absolutely brilliant man. A true truth teller.. Amazing how rare that's become now..
Indeed..
Edward L Bernay - 🏛🎓🤔
"Solution is not in voting, but in making those powerful afraid of us."
Brilliant analysis, commentary and conclusion.
One Of The Greatest Speeches I Have Ever Heard!!!!
Such a powerful speech- this is the first speech in a long long time that has instilled some hope
The venom and disgust with which Hedges spits out the word "rot" at 3:41 is epic.
I heard Chris speak at Barnard tonight and he was astonishing. This guy is not only brilliant, but compassionate as well. What he doesn't do is sugarcoat the truth. What many people in this country don't understand is that unless they organize and act, we are doomed to go the way of those who let their country collapse under the corruption of the unfettered elite. Can you say Weimar?
now a decade later, it's much worse, 30 trillion in national debt, endless war, climate change accelerating, weak president, corrupt Congress etc.
@@michaelsix9684 not to mention the agenda of the globalists for a one world government via organizations like WEF. Smart cities, CBDCs, carbon taxes, digital passports. Universal slavery is their ultimate goal.
Yes you can
He's not talking about the death of the democratic party, he's talking about the liberal class keeping quiet while our ideals went down the drain.
@@jimbodriver1015 How does one differentiate between the two parties?
@@maryrodger5130 The window dressing.
The ideals were academic because (if you are White) being liberal is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and you can and most do opt out when it's more profitable to not be one. The liberal class are educated such that they do not PERSONALLY NEED a liberal world! Smart people can navigate and do well in any system so we do, and humans evolved to be self-interested savages so we are.
Listen here and now, and again.
Honest Chris Hedges, FORTY FIVE MINUTES - to Midnight!
As the working poor are "pounded into the ground", prisons become the only place to contain the suppressed rage they have. Because the social contract has been broken much in the same way treaties were broke with Indians. It is the way this culture strips away the very things it promises to deliver, and take once again the spoils away from yet another conflict.
As a veteran of the imperial military and a former American "libertarian" I would like to thank Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and the many other great independent thinkers for lifting the veil of illusion from my eyes.
Wish I could like this more than once.
On the other hand this is his only thesis I take as being controversial for me. I've read almost every book he's written and get so much out of them. I love to hear him articulate about the humanaties the most. I've also gone on to read many authors he writes and speaks about. I owe so much to Chris Hedges.
The greatest thing about what Chris Hedges is saying is that whether or not you are left or right, he shows where power is and where it SHOULD be. If you want the people to have power and things to be just and right (whatever your opinion is) laws are controlled by people who's only intrest is profit-money, the corporations.
Pure relevance after 12 years, 2012
Brilliant. I'm inspired.
When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
As always, Chris Hedges is wonderful
Came here to hear Hedges speak on the warning he gave us 13 years ago when I read this book and it opened my eyes in many ways. Now it is 2023, and the truth talkers are all silenced. Just like we were told by all the wise men would happen.
I am listening to this in 2024 and every word he utters is as true ss the day he said it.
You are the video engineer we've been waiting for!
Yes 90s in effect
As a secular person, I laud Chris Hedges as a great Christian! He speaks truth to power, and should be listened to in earnest.
Man, it's both incredible to hear someone speak out like this and also scary that there aren't many other people doing it. The media, except for NYT out occasional truths,has been destroyed.
"Patriotism is nothing more than the organized group interests of the privileged class." - Bakunin
and on top of that he is brilliant.
@winterrosscharlton
I am a baby boomrer myself, turning 51 next month. I did not realize at the beginning of my work life that Reagan was beginning to redistribute wealth upward. It is interesting to me to see that, for example, raising the ceiling for social security taxes and medicare taxes beyond $106,000 is not even discussed. That is an arbitrary ceiling. There is no reason not to raise it and also tax capital gains as well...while maybe not at the same rate as "earned income".
An absolutely stunning presentation that must be be heard far and wide, this is mind bending insight presented by Chris Hedges.
Hedge is the only person who I see as telling the complete truth about our modern political and social condition - without compromise. Hats off to you, sir.
Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff. I follow them both.
Truer words were never spoken.
I suggest you download this before RUclips makes it inaccessible. This is DANGEROUS (powerful).
@@SisypheanRoller yeah. It's longer than a tic tok video. Pity.
Not many people, if anyone, have articulate the problem this well. Good job.
Do confuse Karl Marx with so-called Marxism. Marx was a thinker who was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment values of reason and individual liberty. He would have been absolutely horrified by what various dictators have done in his name, including Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc.. Marx was much closer in spirit to John Locke and Adam Smith than he was to Lenin.
We dont need to be part of any group or class. Its not about labeling oneself. Ghandi, a single person led a nation to freedom.
It takes real guts to say what he does @23:38.
One thing that would 'scare the powerful' is viable local and regional currencies.The system is defined and sustained by its money and local challenges to its greed and debt based currency would be a huge proactive step!
Actually I was responding to Killdacrawler's post. I certainly concur with your point of view.
The question, "what makes America the greatest country in the world" certainly can be answered with a simple "It's not".
Chris talks about the corporatization of many facets of our society, which have the affect of killing the tradition liberal class. Have we lost our will to fight against the big corporations, such as military and oil interests especially? What meaning does the voice of one man or woman have in today's plutocracy? I can relate when Hedges talks about flagrant hypocrisy. It is running rampant in the USA it seems.
YEAH CHRIS
27:45
I know he said "our job is not to take power..." but damn I'd like to see him give these brutally honest speeches as a presidential canidate.
I would really like to see this but it keeps freezing at 3:47
In addition to Chris' books, this one is an absolute must: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" - Michelle Alexander
Chris mentions the issue of major racial bias in the prison system. It is one of the key issues of our time.
Like Chomsky Chris is a great analyst of our cultures politics. It starts to seem like utter doom and gloom though, and this certainly won't work to evoke peoples adaptive and creative capacities.We need a vision or many useful visions of what can help. I like the Transition Movement myself.
And here we are today....2022...Some things are so predictable....The Machine is alive and well...And The People, not so much.......Tragic and boring........The banality of Evil......
Those who choose the nominees control the elections. The plutocrats in.partnership with the party leaders choose the nominees. We then determine which of the two corporate owned nominees serve the corporate class as President.
@wareq Good thing you got him labelled then. Next!
@iriisblue dude i asked my high school english teacher this..and she was like u know the adminstrators wont like that hahaha
12:04 is that john malkovich?
Ah, question answered -- Nader.
I'm really curious as to who Chris Hedges voted for in '08. Anybody know?
I would assume he didn't vote for McCain. Might not even have voted for Obama. Pretty sure he voted for Nader. If my some miracle Kuncinch was the nominee he might have voted for him
ah, you got to it first - but i believe you meant "far from the only" ;)
@ghfakar “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov
If you liked this, see Hedges on TVO's The Agenda, Death of the Liberal Class? Oct 22, 2010 on RUclips.
As a former resident of the US and now Canada, Hedges knows what time it is. See Chomsky - Prospects for Democracy 1994
I have no idea if you are still around after 11 years. I found a round table discussion with Hedeges and 3 others from October 25th 2010. I couldn't find the speech. If you have a link I would appreciate it. I did find two speeched that he gave. One on CSpan and one from Powells book store. I am guessing they are smilar to the one he gave on the agenda
@@sanford943 ruclips.net/video/kxhn77PMX9M/видео.html
still kicking and Hedges is still calling hte shots, along with Chomsky!!!!!
@@DjWellDressedMan I thought there was a speech there. I did find this round table tonight Thanks I will watch one of the two speeches I found.
12:17 'Freudian slip' ? ..."deemed to be [what?]"
READ 'THE SHALLOWS' BY NICHOLAS CARR
I'd be liberal, but I'm dead.
Could be, but the Romney 100ft. bridge gives you longer to look forward to the pain.
@nanogod goo dto know i don't got time to watch it.
@kemokidding
You haven't heard his other talks. He called himself an anarchist in one.
Chris Hedges is pretty much spot on . . . I just wish that the Richard Dawkinses, the Sam Harrises and the Chris Hedges of the world could see that they have far more in common than they think. Why argue over the belief in a God when all agree that religious fundamentalism is a danger internally and externally.
Why not go to amazon for the book, Chris? Lots of independent sellers make their living there.
Well...that basically tells it like it is here in the ol' u s of a......
@not2tees At YTU Hedges is the chancellor he took Noam Chomsky's old job.
@malkooth You're joking right? He didn't say Allah. He said I'll ah...and then stopped and went on with what he had to say.
Low regulation on smaller business.
But strong Anti-trust, Fair-play and anti-exploitation laws
I find the argument made here very consistent with my own knowledge and experience. While I'm sure he makes cases elsewhere, as far as this goes, I would bear in mind that name-calling, emotive language and conventional historical memes are not arguments for his tangential positive world view.
-Supporter of unacccountable private tyrannies
But Obama looked so dreamy in that blue shirt, with his sleeves rolled up!
Norman Finkelstein. Ron Paul. Dennis Kucinich.
Goverment should generally be very careful about meddling in how business in run.. Competition is one of the main things that make us better, not just at making money :)
The biggest problem at the moment imo is profit motive in politics, Corporations have no business running goverment just like goverment has no business running factories, Its not a straight line from left to right tho, Some things work worse with a profit motive other things would not be possible without it.
@malkooth Good to hear. :-) I thought surely you must be but I've come across so many paranoid idiots on here, sometimes it's hard to tell.
Tisk tisk, name calling is no way to argue. You realize he is doing exactly what he says he isn't, which is parroting the liberal class. This is the only book/thesis I don't think he knows what he is talking about. He is liberal, he is white, he tries to act like a badass, like he invented this shit. but he is very smart and extremely well educated and understands what real education is about, which is improving the self and the community.
Talk about saw it coming
I'm amazed at the religious people who see no problem gorgeing themselves on wealth and could care less about the poor. I deserve this money because I've worked so hard for it all these poor people are just lazy. If i was even moderately wealthy I would see it as god blessed me with these money and it is my duty to use to make the world better. USA is the roman empire part 2. The republic has died now were 30 yrs into the empire.
Price controls is bad.. goverment forcing hospitals and medicinal companies into a collective bargaining situation in behalf of the people it represents is great.
Price controls should never be used unless the market has become a monopoly or cartel and there is no longer competition.. last ditch thing.
I wish all conservatives would watch this.
2023
see: " America's Darkest Secret "
The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide (Revised January 13, 2009)
Martha Rose Crow, M.S.
The difference is Bush will write the Patriot act but not arrest anyone who isn't Arab under it.
North Korea and China would write the same kind of law, then carry through with it.
@cashman7323 faaaaaaiiiiilllllllllll, LMFAO!
I haven't noticed the death of either party. This man must think there is an Anti-Corporation Party out there somewhere.
social democracy will always be controlled indirectly by the corporations it taxes, thus social democracies are always one piece of legislation away from corporatocracies. long live democratic socialism
@ghfakar I concider Asimov a great writer and a much smarter man then me, So I used a quote I liked. Im not saying that the hybrid systems that work well in Europe would work in USA but atleast know what your talking about, Its fine to have an ideology but it should be tempered over time by facts.
I think the entire perception and meaning of words like "social" and "liberal" is different to Americans then to Europeans.
@wareq He isn't an anarchist, read his blog on Truthdig. He believes in the rule of law, but seeing as how we no longer have it, you can understand why he feels desperate enough to call himself one.
That was a stretch calling Nixon our last liberal president.
Be ready for the wellfare state to kick in. Unemployment runs out this year. The people in the gulf might be "reintegrated" into other parts of the country. Where there are no jobs. Things might get a bit hairy. Two words:
Victory gardens.
@AndrewMann552
sorry to let you know that it's not the thinkers americans look up to.
yeah but he didn't need to say any of this. he could've just gone to work for exxon too.
First off, the republican party is far more collectivistic than the democrats--they consistently say the same thing with the same language. Right wing America is far more hive minded than the American left. Republicans are the party of collectivist thought; democrats are the party that says society is made of interdependent members working together for a better quality of life for all its citizens. We give our individual efforts, but we also love our neighbors.
message in a bottle. molotov.
Watching the audience cringe while the list of horrible betrayals by this administration are counted out...
I am so fucking mad.
Read all the stuff from which he quotes.. He may not be perfect, but who the hell is? One thing I can tell you, CH speaks the truth about american corporatism's "manufacture of consent"
you should get out more. yes he's fighting good fights, but he sure as shit doesn't belong alone on a pedestal.
I can agree with almost all of what he says except for his Pro-abortion views and his attack on Heath Insurance companies.
why would you disagree with attack on Health Insurance Companies. They are even worse today
also, taibbi's debunking of truthers was very disappointingly scattershot. still no comprehensive effort that i'm aware of.
this country is slowly going back to old british parliment..we could prevent this if we just open our eyes..we let goverment grow in power in the wrong areas..
This is way beyond Socialism vs Capitalism
Its about Democracy vs Totalitarianism
If things actually worked US would be better off somewhere in the middle between
Socialism and capitalism with a strong core of Democracy.
I think the liberal-progressives need to look up how Obama critiqued and criticized the Clinton Administration in the 1990s--because the things Obama says are not unlike Hedges's criticisms. Than I would suggest the liberal-progressives consider such a think as political reality and political economies. If Obama remains spineless in his second term, if he doesn't present an ardent discourse for progressive issues, we will see if he is a transitional figure or not.
Lets elect Chris Hedges president, we need an alternative to Barack Obama and the republican nominee. Americans elect is putting the winner of the ballot in every state, please educate yourself about this movement on Americans Elect's website. But also, join the facebook group I just started so we can pool our energies and come up with a plan to get him elected! Facebook search "Chris Hedges for President Americans Elect"
who said anything about 'more' attention? why don't you show me glenn greenwald's 'lack of truth', or greg palast's...
@brightsuperstition I see where you are coming from, but if you read his blog you realize he is just out to restore the pre-2000 concensus in American society.
@TreeLuvBurdpu "This guy ... has no idea ... what drives the Tea Party."
Really? What drives it then?
"He has no concept of what drives a free individual & can think only in terms of "class"."
Class is a reality right-wingers pretend does not exist. Rarely if ever are working people looked at as "heroic individuals." Right-wingers promote ideas such as "individuals" & "free will" to keep working people from uniting & forming a viable alternative to capitalism.