In this segment, Wallace Shawn interviews Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at MIT and noted political dissident. Shawn posits that what humans really want is material comforts. Chomsky rebuts this assertion in a most rigorous and thought-provoking manner, with deep implications towards what the truly important values of our society are and should be.
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The Geodigraph Economy
The traditional capitalist economic system operates on the assumption that large projects are only achievable by building large, permanent corporate entities, which raise capital by selling shares to wealthy investors, who then expect large returns on their investments, making profit--and…
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Historical Materialism and the American Revolution
Have you ever wondered about the glaring contradictions between the founding documents and principles of our republic and the reality of its genesis? Have you ever wondered why the founding fathers wrote of concepts like "all men are created equal"…
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Morality: Policy or Ideology?
One can make a rather convincing argument, without stretching the bounds of credulity to any great extent, that the Democratic Party's stated policy goals are largely built on a loftier moral basis than those of its political rivals. Concern…
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Profit: Normal Human Behavior Gone Wrong Today
Over the eons it has been normal for human beings to generate excess. The central means by which excess supply of food or resources was generated was by the use of teamwork, usually working together to either hunt and gather,…
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Futile Compromise: Why Centrism is Bankrupting the Political Left
UPDATE: Donald Trump, due largely to his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic (which had not appeared in the United States at the time this article was written) lost the 2020 election. The statement "Joe Biden cannot win" was not intended…
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I Do Not Value "Nice"
I do not value "nice". The tepid, lukewarm standard of civility that declares a politician who orders the mass murder of people of color in far-away lands superior if he does so while delivering an eloquent speech with a polished…
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