• Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
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[video=youtube;tBzSLu3MZ6I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBzSLu3MZ6I[/video]
Honestly that really true that this economically and morally destroys societies like France, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Somebody please educate me if I've drastically misinterpreted or misunderstood something, but apart from his criticism of market deregulation and the postmodernist deconstruction of the mechanisms and values of modern western democracies which are both perfectly valid, Noam seems to be also railing against individualism here and thus could be seen to be advocating some form of collectivism. I put it to you that this is in itself a deconstruction of the value of individualism which is a founding principle of enlightened liberalism and the basis of the modern west, and so Noam is guilty of that which he decries. I wonder on which tribalistic lines of association he would draw up his utopian collective? Ethnicity, race, culture, nationality or ideology seem to be the only choices available to us in my limited worldview and collectives along these lines all seem faulty in their own way and surely would only spawn conflict with those outside of the tribe.
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