{"id":11084,"date":"2015-08-15T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2015-08-15T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:42:08","slug":"noam-chomsky-how-americas-way-of-thinking-about-the-world-naturally-produces-human-catastrophes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11084","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky: How America&#8217;s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"coverage_header_bar coverage_header_bar_news-politics\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/noam-chomsky-how-americas-way-thinking-about-world-naturally-produces-human\" target=\"_blank\">Noam Chomsky: How America&#8217;s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system first last odd count-1\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"node-1040724\" class=\"node node-story view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"teaser\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><strong>The scholar talks about the seemingly innocuous elements of our socialization that promote one-world view over another.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<div class=\"coverage_header_bar coverage_header_bar_news-politics\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365466479\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system first last odd count-1\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"node-1040724\" class=\"node node-story view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"the_body body_news-politics clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Tavis<\/strong>: Noam Chomsky is, of course, internationally recognized as one of the world\u2019s most critically engaged public intellectuals. The MIT professor of linguistics has long been an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and the ideological role of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>He joins us now from MIT to talk about the seemingly innocuous elements of our socialization that promote one-world view over another. Before we start our conversation, a clip from \u201cThe West Wing\u201d that I think will set this conversation up quite nicely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Tavis<\/strong>: Professor Chomsky, good to have you on this program. Thank you for your time, sir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noam<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Chomsky<\/strong>: Glad to be with you.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">[Clip]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tavis<\/strong>: I think that clip, again, sets up our conversation nicely. Let me just jump right in. Why all these years later is the west better than the east, the north better than the south, Europe better than Africa? These notions continue to persist. Tell me why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chomsky<\/strong>: There\u2019s a generalization. We are better than they, whoever we are. So if you look through the whole history of China, one of the most ancient, most developed, civilizations which, in fact, was one of the centers of the world economy as late as the 18th century, China was better than everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky: How America&#8217;s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes The scholar talks about the seemingly innocuous elements of our socialization that promote one-world view over another. \u00a0 Tavis: Noam Chomsky is, of course, internationally recognized as one of the world\u2019s most critically engaged public intellectuals. 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