https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pEzsfX8Aw
~~ posted for dmorista with introduction by dmorista ~~
Introduction by dmorista
This is one of the best talks by Chris Hedges that I have seen. It is a you-tube of a talk he gave and some questions he answered at Brooklyn College in March of 2021. He starts with a succinct and hard-hitting 20 minute statement about how the political and economic power in the U.S. really works. Then there was a 30 minute question session, with questions that originated from the leadership of the Brooklyn College Student organization that hosted Hedges, these questions were uniformly excellent. Then there were about 40 minutes of questions from the on-line audience of Brooklyn College Students, these questions were of varying quality, at least half of the audience questions were really good.
Hedges has been forecasting many of the sorts of unfavorable developments that have occurred in the U.S. for many years now. He based much of his analysis on the sorts of negative and horrific situations and changes he saw in various places; places that devolved from relatively peaceful and at least minimally competent socioeconomic systems in countries that fell, or better said were pushed, into horrific Civil Wars. His comments and the discussion ranged from violence vs non-violence, censorship, the role of the duopoly electoral parties in maintaining the status quo, and the fact that the current state of affairs cannot last forever.
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