And they called them self developed. I guess they meant by that word developed on guns, bombs, atom bombs, jets, ships, submarines. Well yes they are developed by that not developed by humanitarian needs.
If you want to know what is really happening in 2021, Michael Parenti's "Superpatriotism" lecture is the most relevant. Even his take on psychological behaviour of men and women in society is as clear as it was thirty years ago.
Michael Parenti speaks with truth and wisdom. Militarism is one of the great corruptors.A democracy can not exist within it. Thanks for this post.Michael Parenti has such integrity and courage.
My grandmother said when FDR was president(at least prior to ww2), she and her husband loved each other like equal good friends. When you have a compassionate society, you have more equal and thus loving interpersonal relationships.
@Atsushi Takayasu, thanks for the thumb up. There is a book by Richard Wilkinson (Author), Kate Pickett (Author). " The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger"....." It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor. www.amazon.com/Spirit-Level-Equality-Societies-Stronger/dp/1608193411 more of books description ".....The remarkable data assembled in The Spirit Level exposes stark differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social problem-poor health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness-is more likely to occur in a less-equal society. Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the contradictions between material success and social failure in the developed world. But they do not merely tell us what's wrong. They offer a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society...."
WoW! how timely it sounds, how little has changed, how more cruel and gruesome has the regime of this nobel peace price winning warmongerer has gotten.
MLK Madness Anyone notice that MLK's "Beyond Vietnam" speech has gone missing from cable media's endless tributes to Martin Luther King? I guess they prefer the black and white footage of past struggles. It didn't even make the final cut of CNN's January classic..."The Civil Rights Movie"...Where they courageously document how we used to be racist. If you haven't heard it in a while, here's MLK on why he opposed Vietnam... ruclips.net/video/b80Bsw0UG-U/видео.html Its a lot of set up with little punch. Think of it as "The Aristocrats" of Civil Rights speeches. Enjoy!
YES, 100% yes. His slight digression about the Olympics is spot on. I remember watching the last Olympics and being annoyed by how the tone of the coverage emphasized American track and field athletes and treated the others - even ones who had done better than the Americans! - as NPCs. How much we as a country self congratulate about our perceived "greatness" as we can barely do anything for the most vulnerable among us: the homeless and hungry.
As always, Michael Parenti lays it out better than anyone. Still, every word of what he says here is relevant. How long do we have to wait for real change?
“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.” ― Erich Fromm
@34:23 Historians who write a people’s history, Philip Foner (American labor historian and teacher), Eric Foner (American historian who has a focus on Reconstruction), W.E.B. Du Bois (not sure if this is who Parenti names), Mores (who??), Herbert Aptheker (American historian and political activist), and Howard Zinn. Anyone know of the names of the third and fourth historians Parenti mentions?
It is true that a peaceful people do not necessarily and logically have a need to be number one militarily nor in any other field, however the existence of other peoples and groups who are decidedly NOT peaceful provide a strong incentive to excel in all fields, or suffer aggression.
MLK Madness Anyone notice that MLK's "Beyond Vietnam" speech has gone missing from cable media's endless tributes to Martin Luther King? I guess they prefer the black and white footage of past struggles. It didn't even make the final cut of CNN's January classic..."The Civil Rights Movie"...Where they courageously document how we used to be racist. If you haven't heard it in a while, here's MLK on why he opposed Vietnam... ruclips.net/video/b80Bsw0UG-U/видео.html Its a lot of set up with little punch. Think of it as "The Aristocrats" of Civil Rights speeches. Enjoy!
This flag color never changes blue, red and white. France, England, Holland, Iceland etc... For this creatures colors and symbols are very important. White color representatives of empire. Blue for saint dennis, red for saint martin. So they are still living in the middle age not developed as they said.
The questions at the end capture nicely the problems that a socialist inspired political project must contend with. Q: why is your historical class analysis not a gender studies analysis also? I have my own point about gender in politics and you have left it out. As if the lack of the latter means the thesis has no relevance or value to the former? One might also ask , why raise only questions that pertain to gender? Are you not also concerned with Race as it pertains to politics? And so on. Q: Arent your abstract terms too vague or confusing to me, and can’t I try to argue you are hypocritical on some trivial point? Isn’t your political project just as selfish and therefore as sinister as the ones you oppose? In other words, bad faith arguments to distract and confuse the audience. As if merely equating abstract elements of logic, and imagining logical contradictions means I can dismiss all the arguments one makes out of hand. If it’s not interests narrowly defined by identity, then it’s sophistry cynically employed. Parenti handles it well and does not abuse his audience in the process.. But he might have asked if they understood what the tradition and purpose of his analysis was. Did they not see the value of what is offered? If they neither understood or wished to debate it on its own terms, why did they bother to come at all. Instead they would chase down cul-de-sacs that eventually brought one back to the larger points - that money and power are locus of a political struggle now on a global scale. No one can seriously deny the point without engaging in magical thinking, or being willfully ignorant,
I think it Breaks because it was social country and starts competition with cut throat economy. And the defeat in Afghanistan the of the army was even below the core of the planet. But Unmoral governance is main reason i think.
30 years ago!!!!! Nothing has changed. Well, okay, it's a lot worse.
Sad, but you're 100% correct.
We need Dr. Parenti's voice now more than ever.
FUCK 12
2021. Way worse
And they called them self developed. I guess they meant by that word developed on guns, bombs, atom bombs, jets, ships, submarines. Well yes they are developed by that not developed by humanitarian needs.
If you want to know what is really happening in 2021, Michael Parenti's "Superpatriotism" lecture is the most relevant. Even his take on psychological behaviour of men and women in society is as clear as it was thirty years ago.
yeah the man is 1000000 on point
I can't believe this was 30 years ago and it's still relevant.
It`s more and more relevant. I recommend you "The Tyranny Of Words" - Stuart Chase (1938)
#1 in military budget and number of people incarcerated.
For REAL!
@Will DeMarco The wealthy tend to be higher in debt.
We're no.1! USA!
And I'm proud to be an Americaaaan 😂
@@leealexander3507 wrong
32 years, and it’s still relevant, possibly now more than ever.
Michael Parenti speaks with truth and wisdom. Militarism is one of the great corruptors.A democracy can not exist within it. Thanks for this post.Michael Parenti has such integrity and courage.
"democracy"
Here we are 33 years later and still fighting for the same thing.
This video is even more relevant today then it was back in 1988.
that's because that's how fascism operates it gets worse and worse until it is defeated with violence.
My grandmother said when FDR was president(at least prior to ww2), she and her husband loved each other like equal good friends. When you have a compassionate society, you have more equal and thus loving interpersonal relationships.
@Atsushi Takayasu, thanks for the thumb up. There is a book by Richard Wilkinson (Author), Kate Pickett (Author). " The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger"....." It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor.
www.amazon.com/Spirit-Level-Equality-Societies-Stronger/dp/1608193411
more of books description ".....The remarkable data assembled in The Spirit Level exposes stark differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America's fifty states. Almost every modern social problem-poor health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness-is more likely to occur in a less-equal society.
Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the contradictions between material success and social failure in the developed world. But they do not merely tell us what's wrong. They offer a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society...."
Well-spoken, Dr. Parenti.
WoW! how timely it sounds, how little has changed, how more cruel and gruesome has the regime of this nobel peace price winning warmongerer has gotten.
*THIS WAS 30 FUCKING YEARS AGO* *could have been today*
SAD SAD SAD ..
Here is another specch that could be made today, just change the locations / /watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U
Look who has been here! Loving this. Kinda sounds like you💜
John MuirsGrand times they are not changing
MLK Madness
Anyone notice that MLK's "Beyond Vietnam" speech has gone missing from cable media's endless tributes to Martin Luther King?
I guess they prefer the black and white footage of past struggles. It
didn't even make the final cut of CNN's January classic..."The Civil
Rights Movie"...Where they courageously document how we used to be
racist. If you haven't heard it in a while, here's MLK on why he opposed
Vietnam...
ruclips.net/video/b80Bsw0UG-U/видео.html
Its a lot of set up with little punch. Think of it as "The Aristocrats" of Civil Rights speeches. Enjoy!
Thank you Choking Victim
Everyword he says is pure gold that overflows into a bowl we pour in our heads.
Light years ahead of contemporaries
YES, 100% yes. His slight digression about the Olympics is spot on. I remember watching the last Olympics and being annoyed by how the tone of the coverage emphasized American track and field athletes and treated the others - even ones who had done better than the Americans! - as NPCs. How much we as a country self congratulate about our perceived "greatness" as we can barely do anything for the most vulnerable among us: the homeless and hungry.
This is incredible
🖤💜💙💚💙💜🖤
People need to see this!!
🖤💜💙💚💙💜🖤
Much Love!!
Thank you for posting this ✊️❤️
Grenada to Bolivia. The real road to serfdom brought to the world by the Land of the Free (tm), a subsidiary of Transnational Interests Inc.
As always, Michael Parenti lays it out better than anyone. Still, every word of what he says here is relevant. How long do we have to wait for real change?
That's why i try to treat each woman with as much respect as possible!
This is great, thanks for sharing.
“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
― Erich Fromm
not to be equated with 3rd world nationalism, and don't come at me with the "all nationalism" bullshit , get dialectic
@34:23 Historians who write a people’s history, Philip Foner (American labor historian and teacher), Eric Foner (American historian who has a focus on Reconstruction), W.E.B. Du Bois (not sure if this is who Parenti names), Mores (who??), Herbert Aptheker (American historian and political activist), and Howard Zinn. Anyone know of the names of the third and fourth historians Parenti mentions?
Heard of Du Bois. I have heard kmof Zinn and A People's history.
Yet you would still get folks raging for what this man is saying without realizing that his uncovering your rage
How times have changed. Now instead of buying back the failing privatized utilities we just give them the money.
the guy at the end asking the question is a reactionary.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary
well, Mikes got smelly gorgonzola farts. cmon, man..
54:00 Does this sound like Chris Hedges to anyone else?????
It is true that a peaceful people do not necessarily and logically have a need to be number one militarily nor in any other field, however the existence of other peoples and groups who are decidedly NOT peaceful provide a strong incentive to excel in all fields, or suffer aggression.
Parenti at his best
Parenti is great but Jesus the chicks at the end 🤦🏽♂️
MLK Madness
Anyone notice that MLK's "Beyond Vietnam" speech has gone missing from cable media's endless tributes to Martin Luther King?
I guess they prefer the black and white footage of past struggles. It
didn't even make the final cut of CNN's January classic..."The Civil
Rights Movie"...Where they courageously document how we used to be
racist. If you haven't heard it in a while, here's MLK on why he opposed
Vietnam...
ruclips.net/video/b80Bsw0UG-U/видео.html
Its a lot of set up with little punch. Think of it as "The Aristocrats" of Civil Rights speeches. Enjoy!
I always figured all the patriotic hoopla was because this is the country I was born in..?
This flag color never changes blue, red and white. France, England, Holland, Iceland etc... For this creatures colors and symbols are very important. White color representatives of empire. Blue for saint dennis, red for saint martin. So they are still living in the middle age not developed as they said.
Wow, the Q&A is amazing - the Baby Boomers were even more obnoxious in college. Yuck, no wonder everything is a mess.
39:40
Amazingly actual: not a single word here has lost sense and fidelity to reallity. What a shame.
Abby. 4 golden west ...rev. order. ie.DEvilopment
The questions at the end capture nicely the problems that a socialist inspired political project must contend with.
Q: why is your historical class analysis not a gender studies analysis also? I have my own point about gender in politics and you have left it out.
As if the lack of the latter means the thesis has no relevance or value to the former? One might also ask , why raise only questions that pertain to gender? Are you not also concerned with Race as it pertains to politics? And so on.
Q: Arent your abstract terms too vague or confusing to me, and can’t I try to argue you are hypocritical on some trivial point? Isn’t your political project just as selfish and therefore as sinister as the ones you oppose? In other words, bad faith arguments to distract and confuse the audience.
As if merely equating abstract elements of logic, and imagining logical contradictions means I can dismiss all the arguments one makes out of hand.
If it’s not interests narrowly defined by identity, then it’s sophistry cynically employed. Parenti handles it well and does not abuse his audience in the process.. But he might have asked if they understood what the tradition and purpose of his analysis was. Did they not see the value of what is offered? If they neither understood or wished to debate it on its own terms, why did they bother to come at all. Instead they would chase down cul-de-sacs that eventually brought one back to the larger points - that money and power are locus of a political struggle now on a global scale.
No one can seriously deny the point without engaging in magical thinking, or being willfully ignorant,
The "feminists" in the Q&A sound like actual CIA agents.
dictionary definition phon., peanut butter, American. def.
The CONSTITUTION.
5:40 amogus
Don’t understand the laughter by the audience!
Political agenda! I'm dyin'!
Then why did USSR fail?
Wow so witty
I think it Breaks because it was social country and starts competition with cut throat economy.
And the defeat in Afghanistan the of the army was even below the core of the planet.
But
Unmoral governance is main reason i think.
Look up parenti's lecture "reflections on the fall of communism"