Having watched so many of his videos - I haven't read his books - Chomsky always seems to highlight the failings of our society, without proposing any tangible solutions. All I get is; "We're all f*cked because of the minority abusing power and wealth." Well, hasn't it always been so? Let's face it, corporations have simply taken over the mantle of religion in controlling the ignorant masses.

You have to go read the books. Also I don't know what talks you're watching but every talk at every college I've ever seen people ask him what to do and he lays out ways to proceed. He doesn't have a magic wand, he gives his impression of a situation and his citations and talks about what is actually happening. Quite obviously in that you can tell "We should stop doing that if we don't want that to happen."

Thanks for you response. Maybe I should read his books. However, to reiterate, the sparse solutions he has proposed that I have seen are, as I said, not tangible. You, yourself, appear to quote an example when you say; "We should stop doing that, if we don't want that to happen." The "we" in that sentence are, according to Chomsky, in no position to change anything by peaceful means. His rhetoric appeals to the radical elements of society to "take back" control, which implies anarchy and rebellion. His corporate conspiracy theories are myriad and he strikes me as a highly intelligent, educated version of the loon David Icke.

Nothing he espouses is particularly radical in any way. He mostly goes along with the majority of Americans, like how he says we should stop threatening Iran. Or we should accept the two state settlement on the table that the American government and Israel have been denying for almost 40 years now. I can't think of very many stances he takes that are radical at all.

Also you haven't understood any of his talks if you think he subscribes to "Corporate conspiracy theories". He explains it very plainly, if you are the head of GM your best interest is in maximizing your profits in the short term. That's not a conspiracy that's just sanity. In order to do that you lobby to keep wages and restrictions down and work to throw doubt on global warming.

The main point I'm trying to put to you is you have to read the books, you can't "Trust" Chomsky just on your own. He provides the citations, you can look them up. The one book I would suggest you start with is "Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky". That book is a collection of his talks and interviews and it's followed up by research done not by him but by a couple of smart editors who put the book together. He uses it now as reference sometimes because he was surprised at what a good job they did. The best part about the book is that it has a dedicated website that contains the references and you can check it while you read.

The most important thing you can know about Chomsky is that he has a LOT of enemies that look for whatever they can to use against him. Which is why he can't make very many mistakes, so he's quite conservative and careful with his research. I expect you to be too, you shouldn't just trust people, you should do your own work on the subjects that interest you.

David Icke?? The Reptilian bloodline guy?? dude.

Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.