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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Reflection on Gender Roles
Note: This was originally written in 2014. It’s not my usual habit to veer off into highly personal stuff, but this has been chewing on me a bit. First off, I was mostly reared by women. My mother, grandmother, and…
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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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Trump? No, Hayek, Schaeffer, and McCarthy
The Trump movement is more accurately called the Hayek/Schaeffer/McCarthy movement. Born from the fusion of Friedrich Hayek's Mont Pelerin movement, Francis Schaeffer's Religious Right (via his Christian Manifesto's call to political action staged from L'Abri), and McCarthy-era anti-communist propaganda. It…
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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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Crisis of Crystallization
It occurs to me that a great many people on the right side of the political spectrum place such great, blind faith in the free market’s ability to place all of us in our correct positions within the social hierarchy,…
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