Noam Chomsky: Capitalism, Media Control, & the Illusion of Democracy

America doesn't have a govt. It has Rich investors who pay our leaders to do as they say.

I’ll say it again, America is not a democracy, it’s a business.

Not only in America it's happening all over the world

The point of all democracies is to give the illusion of fairness.

Freedom of speech " You can say whatever you want, as long as I like it."

If you’re over fifty you’ve known this for 25 years. But thanks for publishing this.

I am an old boomer. In the 1970ies Chomsky taught me how language influences your thinking. Back then there was a lot of turmoil in South America and while some news outlets would talk about rebels, others would talk about freedom fighters. Language shaped your view on things. I don't always agree 100% with his analyses, but quite often he is spot on and he is always worth listening to.

Most people in the "developed" world are far too comfortable to care. Keep the serfs entertained and marginally comfortable and you can rule without opposition.

We live in a corporate political religious FASCISM!

Sadly most people either don't know or don't care.!

French thinker-surgeon Henri Laborit maintained that: ‘Modern man finds himself alone, isolated, lost in a monstrous socio-economic machine whose mechanisms he doesn’t understand. But what is the most incomprehensible is how, locked in the rigid, impersonal yoke of his daily grind, of his measured automatisms, having no time to think or even to rave in delirium, he can still believe that he is free. His concept of liberty is itself the consequence of a cultural automatism inculcated in him early by society to avoid his suicide, or revolt, to make him think that the choice was his.’ That’s the real Hell for intelligent adults, not the one spread about by the fear-mongering Christian churches.

Chomsky really knows what he is talking about and it would behoove everyone to listen to what he has to say because he won't be around much longer. He has a gem of knowledge.

George carlin did a show on this subject

The corporate matrix.

I've always felt like that but couldn't formulate it so clearly. 100% Agree. This is probably one of the most underrated video on YouTube.

The greatest illusion Is people thinking they are free, even when being confronted with every day life showing and telling them they are not free

A beautifully narrated presentation and synopsis of Chomsky's oeuvre. Thank you :)

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....” NC

Well said! Manufacturing Consent should be taught in every high school in the world.

“A democracy that serves everyone” must serve the ecosystems, insects and animals as well. This is particularly hard for our species to comprehend. We are inflicting insane levels of damage which all know is creating cascading effects. I don’t hear many optimistic ecologists…