#242 Anarchy and Ideas for Change (with Noam Chomsky)

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Russell Brand

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🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This week I spoke with Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential intellectuals in the world. He is a Professor Laureate of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of more than 150 books! During our conversation I asked him whether he thought a decentralization of power and anarchism are important subjects for the future. As you’d expect, there were some striking answers from the 93-year-old philosopher. Join me for a meditation over on my other podcast "Above the Noise" Join my mailing list and find out more about a one-off special with Wim Hof on July 10th and our upcoming live Zoom conversation on June 17th. https://www.russellbrand.com/join

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with
0:03.2	Nome Chomsky, who is Nome Chomsky. You know, Nome Chomsky is, don't you?
0:07.2	Right, well, I spoke to him. In this part of the conversation,
0:10.5	we spoke about decentralization and anarchism. And interestingly, Nome Chomsky said
0:16.5	that today's American totalitarianism is worse than Stalinist Russia.
0:21.5	Have a listen to this for yourself until we have you agree? Is that what he actually said?
0:26.3	Because that seems like an unbelievable thing, but here he is.
0:30.3	Trying to achieve equality with the annihilation of category is not successful.
0:35.1	That's exactly right.
0:37.1	We're in this era where it turns out we were never the bus.
0:40.3	That's the black night line.
0:42.3	What's beneath the surface of people with Maya, the ideas that define our time,
0:47.0	the history we're told?
0:48.9	And welcome to Russell Brand. Under this game.
0:52.3	Do you still feel that decentralization and anarchism are important subjects
1:00.3	to be explored within this arena that you say that we are currently lacking?
1:06.3	And do you feel that there is a future in some of these ideas that sometimes
1:12.3	feel like they belong to a previous century, specifically anarchism?
1:16.3	I think they belong to a future century.
1:20.3	These are long-term goals that should guide us in what we do every day.
1:28.3	But can only be approximately realized.
1:34.3	And we can make advances towards them.
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