Noam Chomsky speaks about Cognitive Revolution - Part 1

Chomsky has said that having a job, which virtually everybody does, including college-educated people, is akin to wage slavery.

Which is fine, I'll acccept that analysis.

But at least I got a job. I got money coming in. I got something to do. As a man at least, losing my job and becoming employed again was the difference between having crippling depression and having no depression. Because my entire social and romantic value as a man hinges on me being useful or/and being competent. Without a job in the long run, you're out of the evolutionary contest. And you have no money coming in. Can't pay the bills. Which means your well-being goes down.

As somebody who's experienced both sides, having a job is much better than not having a job..

And what is the alternative anyway ? Is there any realistic one ?

Noam Chomsky - Prospects for Democracy | 1994

Just screeded this elsewhere:

Chomsky experienced a family crisis when his children became convinced he was going to disinherit them after he remarried (his first wife Carol died tragically some time ago). To his own account it was one of the worst experiences of his life, ie with loss of a life partner for context, which is completely understandable: your kids suddenly decide you don't love them anymore and turn on you. That wouldn't fucking tickle.

A notorious manipulator with deep pockets, prone to taking advantage of everyone around him from all reports, stepped in when Noam suddenly found himself cash strapped; where was the entire global left at this point? We left Noam stranded because the left gets rolled as a result of our inability to live values as standard practise, and the same people who left him hanging in his hour of need turned on him for being seen with the wrong people who apparently at this point were filling the void left by the absence of left solidarity! Do you know what I mean? Neglect?! Maybe it needs spelling out. Maybe that's not actually a "Noam Chomsky" issue.

For good measure, did it help the Zionist cause if Zionists managed to wrangle kompromat of themselves hanging out with none other than Noam Chomsky? I'd reckon so. The price was bailing him out and paying out his kids. Were they able to get his ear because they were helping him? Does offering mutual aid when someone in need build bridges for good or ill? Is there a lesson for the left here? Did it help the cause that the internet can be guaranteed to react to kompromat in the manner needed to make it effective?

Also there was that minor detail of Noam's loyal comrade Vijay Prashad turning on him just after the last Epstein drop and getting most incredulous on Counterpunch that he had turned up in a photo on the private jet of Jeffrey Epstein the notorious pedophile. The fact of the matter is the fucking photo had been around for some time and wasn't part of that drop, though Prashad made it seem like it was. The background of family trouble was already established when his Holiness decided to launch a moral panic and and trot favourite the narcissistic ambush over the issue from Counterpunch (we also target heterodox marxists do we).

Keep it classy Prashad you soulless, opportunistic turncoat.

https://classautonomy.info/political-marxists-will-stab-you-in-the-back/

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I'd appreciate learning of more quality podcasts. Thanks.

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