There is no citation in the video or in its description of any speech or text of Chomsky's that I found.
If I missed the citation somehow, please cite when Chomsky gave the speech or the text that made those statements.
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If this has no actual connection to Noam Chomsky (which it clearly seems not to have), posting it on DU is neither inspirational nor useful. Instead, that YouTube channel is a cheap and shoddy act of vandalism (via AI slop) against his thoughts and writings. It is beyond plagiarism, for it is theft of his name and likeness and attributes statements to him which seem not to be his.
Here is a
real article about the
real man and about a recent book that he co-authored:
Books & the Arts / January 13, 2025
Empire’s Critic
The worlds of Noam Chomsky.
Daniel Bessner
Noam Chomsky is the most famous critic of US empire in the world. No single living intellectual comes close. Even John Mearsheimer, the international relations theorist well-known for his critiques of US foreign relations, can’t hold a candle to Chomsky: A Google Ngram search quickly reveals how many more times Chomsky’s name appears in English-language texts than Mearsheimer’s.
And Chomsky is not just one of the most cited writers on the subject of US foreign relations; he’s that rare scholar who has made the leap from academia to popular culture. His name appears in songs by the punk band NOFX (“And now I can’t sleep from years of apathy / All because I read a little Noam Chomsky”) and the comedian Bo Burnham (“My show is a little bit silly / And a little bit pretentious / Like Shakespeare’s willy / Or Noam Chomsky wearing a strap-on”). Robin Williams’s psychologist character in Good Will Hunting brings up Chomsky to demonstrate his intellectual bona fides to Will himself. And in my favorite reference, on the TV show Community, the character Britta—an annoying lefty poseur whose claim to fame is that she “lived in New York”—has a cat named Chomsky. If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
Though he was trained as a linguist, it’s not especially surprising that Chomsky has become best known for his political opinions. Born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia, he wrote his very first article—which appeared in the February 1939 edition of his fifth-grade newspaper—on, as he remembers, “the spread of fascism in Europe and its apparently inexorable conquest and the terror this incited.” Indeed, the essay that made Chomsky’s name was not an esoteric piece on linguistics but rather his 1966 “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” a manifesto that lambasted those scholars who, Chomsky believed, were more interested in cozying up to power than speaking truth to it.
Like many great essays, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals” was Chomsky’s response to something that annoyed him: how academics around Harvard and MIT (where he taught) aligned themselves with the John F. Kennedy administration regardless of its policies. “There was a kind of Camelot fever,” Chomsky recalls. “Great excitement among, say, Cambridge intellectuals…. There was a shuttle, an airline shuttle…that went from Boston to Washington, up and back through the day. In the morning, you could literally see the intellectual elite lining up at the shuttle so they could go to Washington and rub shoulders with the great and the powerful, [and they would] come back in the evening on the shuttle all excited.”
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/noam-chomsky-nathan-robinson-myth-american-idealism/Here is his recent book from 2024 if anyone is interested in knowing his actual thoughts:
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