Chris Hedges "American Sadism"

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  • @mediasanctuary
    @mediasanctuary  3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

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    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You censor too much. I took issue with a point Hedges made about men, using a highly intellectual tone and polite language. It was removed. This is shameful, frankly. If he can say what he said, why can't milder language remain in the comments?

    • @collinsfrank1582
      @collinsfrank1582 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You know, I don't think anyone could get anyone to agree with EVERY word one says in a speech.
      But I must question the definition of maleness as inherently sadistic.

    • @shamakhan2660
      @shamakhan2660 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude

    • @JFKMLKRFKGHWB
      @JFKMLKRFKGHWB 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      m

    • @olanneeson3990
      @olanneeson3990 ปีที่แล้ว

      In a "woke "age , folk are reluctant to use strong language in expressing their viewpoint .It can be very cathartic to state ones' case loudly and firmly .Desmond Morris , of "The Naked Ape " fame has apologised for his theory of the alpha male .he ,now , maintains that animals in the wild behave more like a family .There are forces in the world who serve their own interests by clinging to the concept of the alpha male to justify a cruel and savage portrayal of the human condition .@@l.w.paradis2108

  • @jamesfeng7010
    @jamesfeng7010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +637

    This is probably the saddest and most informative speech i’ve ever heard in my entire life about the current state of the world, thank you chris for being brave/honest enough to say what needs to be said

    • @derekbrowne4678
      @derekbrowne4678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It is referencing America

    • @derekbrowne4678
      @derekbrowne4678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@gbird3295 Oh yes it is true and what vital points is he off on. There is nothing that he says that you can actually debunk with facts and truth.

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You probably never paid any attention to anything I guess. He is talking about the US of Assholes, not the world

    • @garymorgan3314
      @garymorgan3314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's more about America than the world though as a Briton I cannot be complacent as our leader, Johnson, is a lying incompetent and we tend to follow America in most things... though never the good things that De Tocqueville shrewdly noticed: civic mindedness a gift for the practical, inventiveness and tailgate parties (this last is mine but they are great. And burgers).

    • @youngdrosenumbaone8371
      @youngdrosenumbaone8371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Facts. I'm happy this has so many likes compared to dislikes. If this impeccable update on the world's current state doesn't register. No words will.
      Edit: I know he is talking about America first and foremost. But you cannot talk about America without talking about global politics and conflicts

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield7218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    "The tyranny we once exploited on others, we now exploit on ourselves" - Chris Hedges

    • @Marshmobilise
      @Marshmobilise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this is so true for the UK. our empire is gone so now our elites turn us into the natives and our towns in trading posts. We are cannibalized by our elites because they cant cannabalise India, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas like they used to in great grandparents' days. Its even worse if you are black or muslim, you are second class citizen are subject to insane state violence and racism

    • @annalisa14
      @annalisa14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Marshmobilise hey 🇬🇧 I’m with you. I agree with your statements. I’ve been living in Oregon USA 🇺🇸 for 20+ years. It’s similar. Corporate is at the end of its rope. Things are changing…

    • @klauskinski5969
      @klauskinski5969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oh shit the violence expressed abroad now finally comes home? yes! kill everyone that benefitted of the american culture that is born out of cowards avoid facing hardships. usa expelled or killed the only warriors they had that where willing to fight for the benefits of others and payed with their blood with a smile in a manjac crash. and now the fucking sheeps starts to cry when they realize their future. but dont dare to stand up.....in the end you get what you deserve. there is not a single us-citizen who doesnt deserves death. no matter if you are black or white, you put this on yourself by constantly kneeling down.
      it gets even more funny when hedges recites european scholars. they all basicly tell the same story: "stand up"! but you cant expect anything from a nation of cowards that killed in a francy their own heros.

    • @catvisiontv855
      @catvisiontv855 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not Just American leaders and media leaders.... but all around the world where they have been causing wars ... all leaders around the world. Anyone who wants mass murder instead of incarcerating the leaders responsible for causing war is definitely psychopathic and delusional. That's what I think.
      1

  • @russgreenwood6458
    @russgreenwood6458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman

    • @spencedelic
      @spencedelic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      based if i may say

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spencedelic 🤫
      #readbetterbooks

    • @chadlee914
      @chadlee914 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks

    • @PoetlaureateNFDL
      @PoetlaureateNFDL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Interesting comments about Occupy movement and love children of the 60’s. Elite afraid of them.

    • @MikenNinginThai
      @MikenNinginThai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Notice all these people are for capitalism the only difference is how the wealth is distributed. Democracy, voting, is all a hoax on the people as they are born from capitalism
      "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich that is the democracy of a capitalists society. : -- Vladimir Lenin

  • @kkbroph663
    @kkbroph663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    A good day is when I find a new Christopher Hedges speech. Thank you Media Sanctuary, and thank you, Chris Hedges.

  • @l.krueger9172
    @l.krueger9172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    It hurts so much to hear this and know it is us. This talk is a hard look in the mirror. Thank you for your work.

    • @markdemell3717
      @markdemell3717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not us ,but ,you! We all sin and fall short of the glory of YAH.

    • @TestTest-ft9xh
      @TestTest-ft9xh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@markdemell3717 You have shown most of all you need to look in the mirror by your comment. The terror stoping you to look is what causes you to lash out at other people. Only radical honesty can save you from sin or terror and bring you into security from insecurity bro.

  • @blindfreddy9157
    @blindfreddy9157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +529

    Americans are starting to learn what the rest of the world has known for decades.

    • @jean-pierredevent970
      @jean-pierredevent970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      But they have this wonderful heritage of the humanistic psychology and even that period of listening to Indian gurus was not so bad. But now, America has lost it's core. It's needs serious soul searching.

    • @bucksfan77
      @bucksfan77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The rest of the world? Like whi exactly? Because before America became top dog the Russians went full on Communist, the Japanese invaded Korea and China, the Ottomans had gotten as far as Vienna before being pushed back, it's still illegal to be gay in 69 countries (most Islamic and women have virtually zero rights) and China has actual concentration camps and libya has open air slave markets right now. So a great question is as compared to what exactly is America failing at?

    • @9UaYXxB
      @9UaYXxB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@bucksfan77 At rationality, at hubris, at compassion, at a sense of humility and proportion and fair play.

    • @bucksfan77
      @bucksfan77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@9UaYXxB I don't follow. What are you getting at?

    • @disillusionedanglophile7680
      @disillusionedanglophile7680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@bucksfan77 America's failings? Life expectancy, education standards, Election integrity, rule of law from CIA/FBI/DEA/FDA/FED who are all corrupt. Remember Bucks Fan (who are the "Bucks"? Like we care enough to ask?) that America is supposed to be the biggest, the bestest, the most everything but its tops numero uno at exporting terrorism, invading foreign nations on a permanent basis since the Spanish war 1n 1899. America has failed. Look at that cheapskate (american engineered) condo that collapsed, thin weak legs. Now you have Biden to prop you up? LOL. BTW. Chris Hedges is completely polarised so half of what he says is nonsense. The other half is good. But Hedges should let up, he is very negative about your (criminal) republic. I wish you good luck with your republic. I think you should start to disband it and become independent of the vile corrupt Federal Government and their media partners. States rights rule!

  • @darleneshriver3270
    @darleneshriver3270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    Chris Hedges, a great man of courage! Thank God we have him at this time!

    • @aek12
      @aek12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Truth shall set you free.

    • @tonyp2865
      @tonyp2865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The new Gore Vidal

    • @GOLDENFLYWARRIOR
      @GOLDENFLYWARRIOR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank WISDOM not man made GOD. Chris Hedges would laugh at you.

    • @martinko4086
      @martinko4086 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GOLDENFLYWARRIOR I laugh at Chris Hedges , look like he is SADIST himself , doing and saying only BAD thing to America and enjoy it . He is taking things out of the contest and trying to prove how BAD is capitalism and America .

    • @johnshaw8228
      @johnshaw8228 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @scole781
    @scole781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    He is one of the few that speaks truthfully and absolutely. Cathartic to listen to when you have been suffering so long in a society rotten. So much so that it makes one snap from their comatose depression and realize , " I am not alone " , and thus; "it begins"!

  • @LolaDeVino
    @LolaDeVino 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I weep at these truths that Chris Hedges always reveals. I weep for our deplorable country. We have devolved into a country where soulless, cowardly greed, rules. 😣

    • @briobarb8525
      @briobarb8525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sooo true! Why do Sooo few Americans see it or even care? 😢

    • @DigiologyStudios
      @DigiologyStudios 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because most are the same@@briobarb8525

    • @robynbrentnall8127
      @robynbrentnall8127 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Alas my country, the supposedly happy-go-lucky down-under Wide Brown Land of Australia, is heading by degrees in the same direction
      Australia of the Aussie digger, is heading by degrees in the same direction, but it's NOT too late to exert a power for good.

  • @marcuschan2901
    @marcuschan2901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I respect this very brave man for speaking out. It is indeed sad to see a great country failing miserably.

    • @CharlesDorman-uc5sf
      @CharlesDorman-uc5sf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do you expect from a Christian country that worships the devil

  • @blossemdegroat2855
    @blossemdegroat2855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Thank YOU for articulating what Hell my family and I have been through our whole Life. This is the mose Humane speech I've ever heard. From darkness to light. God Bless You

    • @KayHBrown
      @KayHBrown 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We must wake up and reject and resist, and realign our resources. It begins with understanding Chris Hedges' message.

  • @aschloesing
    @aschloesing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I'm so movef by this talk. 62 years old french woman, raised by what I would define as agnostic, vegetarian, organic landowners. Went to a private school based on the freinet method. I've been living in this country since 1986., feeling like I'm drowning. Not that France is doing any better at this time Anyway, no one will read this except for the surveillance apparatus maybe? Chris edges is a hero . Much love, that's this answer

    • @susiefairfield7218
      @susiefairfield7218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🙌💗💯👌🤘🤗

    • @lora97006
      @lora97006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I read your comment. Also agree that LOVE is the answer - Trying to hang onto that belief anyway. Much 💗 to you Anne. 😊
      🌿🌻🌿

    • @traceythompson1092
      @traceythompson1092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      As an American woman of Jamaican descent who's parents came to America in 1966 to make a better life.....I so get what you are saying. Both my parents and my brother passed before Childish Trumpino was elected. I know EXACTLY what my Dad would have said about the Homunculus who was our former president; he saw through Reagan in the late 70s, and Orange Julius Caesar was *no* Reagan!

    • @YaoEspirito
      @YaoEspirito 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@traceythompson1092
      Childish Trumpino!😅😅

    • @lozensfire
      @lozensfire ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shining your wise and wonderful light!We can,we will love

  • @ADebsLife
    @ADebsLife 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Hearing the truth spoken is a balm. Thank you.

  • @queenmothervirgomaat9969
    @queenmothervirgomaat9969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    How many of you don’t share Chris Hedges because you can’t find anyone heavy enough to enjoy his honesty and truth!

    • @colterino
      @colterino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hand Raise

    • @maxfastest
      @maxfastest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yep.
      I tried, but none would even listen

    • @traceythompson1092
      @traceythompson1092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I haven't even tried....my friends think I am crazy and lefty enough without trying to parse Chris Hedges with them. I'm going to try though: it had to be done ✔ 😅

    • @ronniemiller9762
      @ronniemiller9762 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wouldn't dare try.....

  • @Matt-hq2ew
    @Matt-hq2ew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    "Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
    George Orwell

    • @unitedspacepirates9075
      @unitedspacepirates9075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@robertbolstad9465 1984

    • @MoyToy84
      @MoyToy84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Snowden

    • @johnshaw8228
      @johnshaw8228 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/3jPVCooerIo/w-d-xo.html

    • @aksbeixhev
      @aksbeixhev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Manning, Assange and Snowden are all excellent examples

    • @markdemell3717
      @markdemell3717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ephesians ch 6 .Halleluyah!

  • @craigsmith1365
    @craigsmith1365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    I wish the people would rise up in multitudes and flood the streets like they did to stop the Vietnam War.

    • @daytonmargramarnsom1641
      @daytonmargramarnsom1641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Soon comrade

    • @kk-wh3hb
      @kk-wh3hb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @ we get mad at the poor and homeless too

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kk-wh3hb who's "we" pale face? 😒

    • @kk-wh3hb
      @kk-wh3hb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @ not you. Your way to busy posting the same Jimmy Dore quote over and over again but, at least you don't hate the poor and homeless. Maybe nobody does and it's just my imagination. ok paleface?

    • @kk-wh3hb
      @kk-wh3hb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ you may have done more to help the poor and homeless than I have but on the other hand it might just be a cute ignorant assumption.
      All I did was make the cute ignorant assumption that there is a lot of hate towards the poor. Did you assume that I thought it was a good thing?
      At least you exposed me for the racist monster that I apparently am. It had to be done. Good job paleface.

  • @mumtazzafar1576
    @mumtazzafar1576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thanks for educating me professor free of charge online. It's always a privilege to hear you speak. Please keep uploading the great work.

    • @klauskinski5969
      @klauskinski5969 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the further i read comments the more stupid they get. thx for providing an example

  • @kenridge3106
    @kenridge3106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    Succinct. Truth. So much admiration for this man.

    • @Andrew_Cotton
      @Andrew_Cotton 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bullshit. Hes a socialist sell out. EVERYTHING is a narrative.

    • @adamiskandar5107
      @adamiskandar5107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Andrew_Cotton I follow his work, closely. Can you elaborate how he is a sell out? Pls convince me.

    • @comingviking
      @comingviking 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Andrew Cotton What does "socialist sellout" even mean? To me it sounds like a very silly attempt to combine two "bad words" to smear the subject.
      If he is a socialist, he is no sellout. Those are mutually exclusive terms. So I would also like some elaboration on the thought process here.

    • @Andrew_Cotton
      @Andrew_Cotton 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@comingviking He's a sellout because he's a corporatist, a statist, is a multimillionaire, owns three homes and got a sweet book deal. As a matter of fact that makes him a hypocrite too. Can you name one single solitary thing he's accomplished in the Senate in 25 years ? Neither can I. He's a corpotatist because he takes corporate campaign contributions, less than other members of Congress but he still takes them. See opensecrets.org. Bernard Sanders isn't special. Hes just as much part of the political Establishment as any member of that Congtess. And he's a statist because when faced with a social problem his first impulse is to ask what can the state do to solve this instead of asking OUGHT the state intervene at all and OUGHT the matter be resolved by the citizenry with limited government interference. See we live down here in the real world in the realm of reapolitik, not up in the rarefied air of your idealistic ivory tower. " All addictions are bad whether the narcotic be alcohol morphine or idealism." -Carl Jung

    • @comingviking
      @comingviking 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Andrew_Cotton You are thinking about Bernie Sanders. And I use the word "thinking" loosely here.

  • @maggieray222
    @maggieray222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Once you see it, you can't unsee it. The tapestry of horror Chris weaves here was validation and brought me to tears. Maybe his most brilliant, unwavering lecture yet.

  • @ranter7100
    @ranter7100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Breathtaking, spellbinding, terrifying, enlightening, But there is a glimmer of hope If enough of us want to wake up.

    • @rhabdoviridae
      @rhabdoviridae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Enough of us don’t. Too many of us aren’t even aware that they should.

    • @ranter7100
      @ranter7100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@rhabdoviridae
      I know its probably the bit that frustrates me the most.
      Im in New Zealand I'm quite vocal about it all .
      You should see the looks i get. people here by and large have no idsa about anything and are happy to vote against their own best interests and give you a two second sound bite as to why ........end of story.
      Alot of people are just two busy keeping the neoliberal wolf from the door or their comfortable enough in the system to not want to look at all. Sleep walking of the edge.
      Well what is going to happen when all these sleep walkers wake up to late?

    • @KleineJoop
      @KleineJoop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Democracy needs a significant part, or majority even, to be awake and vote.

    • @KleineJoop
      @KleineJoop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ranter7100 You're in the only anglosaxon country where there is an social/leftist government in power. Ardern is doing great as that exception, as far as i know your politics and people aren't toxic and traumatic like the rest, hence such progressive and constructive government can be voted in. Even my own country the Netherlands, one of the inventors and original/oldest capitalists, is deep into neoliberalism now, so deep that our state is compromised, commiting crimes against us. It tooks decades but they succeeded in keeping the people in that capitalist/neoliberal belief, helped by nationalist/populist memories of the 70/80's when we were indeed perhaps one of the most free and social and progressive countries in the world at that moment. There is nothing left, we moved away from the German Rhineland model to the anglosaxon one shortly after that time, no leftist government since, and like the US and UK, the Netherlands has slit down the drain, and joined them. I believe your country and people have not, that's a great exeption and one to be proud of and indeed defend and spread by staying social and connected to people who don't yet have the knowledge/information to achieve such political and wordly clarity. Keep at it my friend, you're doing invalueable work.

    • @ranter7100
      @ranter7100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@KleineJoop
      I know looking from the outside it looks that way.
      Jacinda does care I think it shows in the covid response.
      But Jacinda's govt is neoliberal to the core they to the right economically.
      A lot of policy with corporations in mind. Are they better than our lunatic right wing outfit yes but its still only a vote for the less of two evils.
      Center left govts around the world are selling out their citizens and the right is insane.
      What we need right now is policy that addresses the problems we have Growing inequality, collapsing climate, growing social unrest. and no govts on earth are addressing this.
      The reason is pretty clear. Some off us have a kind of collative madness a sort of elitist I'm better than you. These people are everywhere in govt, city councils, police, the courts, executives, bankers, corporations and people with a higher education. These people are calling all the shots they are making the rules. The working class on down which is most of us are getting no policy that is helping us. user pays, neoliberal madness. The policy is for the rich the corporations. Chris Hedges is right when he says a corporate coup d'état. Its done they control the govts, the police , the intelligence cabals. Its over and if you speak out...... well Julian tells that story.

  • @stevenyourke7901
    @stevenyourke7901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Whenever I feel a little too optimistic and cheerful, I tune in to Chris - he straightens me right out in no time!

  • @adcaptandumvulgus4252
    @adcaptandumvulgus4252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I like when Richard Wolff and Chris hedges got together that was a good talk More of that please

  • @bryanjensen355
    @bryanjensen355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Dovetails into Chris's previous speeches and authored content, but still one of his best speeches yet-an exceptional gift of brave and moral academic and journalistic thoughtfulness.

  • @marygard4608
    @marygard4608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    The Indigenous Americans believed the white man suffered from the sickness of Greed. I now understand truly what they meant.

  • @alanfoster8444
    @alanfoster8444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Hello from Australia. Another wonderful lecture by Chris. Wishing you all well for the future xx

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    This is a great text. Slamming it ! Kudos to Chris Hedges !

  • @ZackZick96
    @ZackZick96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This needs to be shared across the planet immediately.

  • @louisehoff
    @louisehoff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    You have captured the full truth of how our society is cruelly chewing up and spitting out so many of our neighbors, harming the children and are now leading our species and many other species over the cliff. I spend most of my time doing what I can to raise awareness about the climate crisis. thank you for your deep analysis of today's america

    • @breal546
      @breal546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ✌️We gotta dig deep, it’s scary how inhumane the world has become.

    • @karenmossbryan7932
      @karenmossbryan7932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It would seem raising awareness of human malevolence would be top priority. Climate then might change for the better.

    • @davidjohnzenocollins
      @davidjohnzenocollins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@karenmossbryan7932 Will that work? Telling people they are malevolent and hoping they will slap their foreheads saying, "Oh, my gosh! You're right! We gotta end climate change!"

    • @klauskinski5969
      @klauskinski5969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the further i read comments the more stupid they get. thx for providing an example. ah yes...thx chris for telling you the truth and you do exactly NOTHING! ok im wrong. if you would really do nothing 8 billion ppl on this world could live without your country/goverment intefering in them. buts not what you do...you support them and complain about the outcome or when war turns home. sheep!

    • @aroyaliota
      @aroyaliota 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Climate change is your message after hearing this? #smh

  • @anniew3294
    @anniew3294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I can't thank you enough for this searing analysis. I felt every word.

  • @نوارةالثقفي
    @نوارةالثقفي 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Thank you Chris for your existence.

  • @thegodhead
    @thegodhead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I’ve experienced this while an hourly laborer for a giant corporation. Sadists filled middle and upper management. They enjoyed degrading and attempting to ruin the lives and spirits of subordinate workers (many of them immigrants). This is the American way. If justice exist at all, there is a special place in hell for sadists.

  • @thelifeofmr.nibblestheshih2353
    @thelifeofmr.nibblestheshih2353 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Mr. Hedges seems like a prophet, he consistently predicts many events before they happen. He knows more than others that history DOES repeat itself over and over.

    • @susiefairfield7218
      @susiefairfield7218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The voice of one crying in the wilderness.....

    • @vickishook9715
      @vickishook9715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have often thought that same thing. The more I listen to Ms. Hedges, the more grateful I am I have the opportunity to know him and read his work. Pure blessing!

    • @vickishook9715
      @vickishook9715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@susiefairfield7218 Brilliant

    • @fabiengerard8142
      @fabiengerard8142 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@susiefairfield7218 *One more thing in common with his friend Noam… Both exceptionally insightful.

  • @scottluthy5828
    @scottluthy5828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    Chris hedges needs to be taken seriously and he really speaks the truth. Our federal government has failed many Americans and we must change that.

    • @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl
      @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      People must end being masochistic too. They are, out of two reasons, believing in political agendas of the two party system and self deception that the things will magically change.

    • @cosmicllama6910
      @cosmicllama6910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ask not what your government can do for you, yeah saying that to people working 2-3 jobs just to tread water really isn't gonna mean sh*t

    • @celtictexan
      @celtictexan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cosmicllama6910 And why is that? Why do people in these times need multiple jobs, when one was enough prior to 64 and 65?

    • @cosmicllama6910
      @cosmicllama6910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@celtictexan Because the Boomers benefitted from a post war economy that made them kings of everything, then pulled the ladders up and demonized unions so their kids and grandkids would never have lives as good as theirs.
      Because seeing half the population go homeless is somehow better than scary "socialism"

    • @susanmercurio1060
      @susanmercurio1060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay, how?

  • @carpo719
    @carpo719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    the guy is one of the most depressing speakers I have ever heard..... yet I listen to every speech, and every word, because Truth is not pretty

    • @johnshaw8228
      @johnshaw8228 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/3jPVCooerIo/w-d-xo.html

    • @vickishook9715
      @vickishook9715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This man is brilliant. His life's path is humbling.

    • @XBKLYN
      @XBKLYN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed. I don't align with everything he says but his presentations are like car wrecks In which you are powerless to avert your gaze.

  • @greenleaf1635
    @greenleaf1635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Chris Hedges is in one word a Treasure! Don't let that man walk out of that building, carry him on your shoulders!

    • @johnshaw8228
      @johnshaw8228 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/3jPVCooerIo/w-d-xo.html

    • @fabiengerard8142
      @fabiengerard8142 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think he’d never accept to be carried on anyone’s shoulders, though!

  • @remasterus
    @remasterus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
    - Ariel Durant

  • @EPixieGrin
    @EPixieGrin ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is outstanding! He's done such an incredible job illustrating the state of the world and western culture. Finally!

  • @quitefranklysamanthatheres1018
    @quitefranklysamanthatheres1018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Everyone in the world needs to hear this speech

    • @skeptick6513
      @skeptick6513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would be heartened if the majority in amerika would hear and that even a fraction could understand the reality today. As MLK said the USA is the greatest purveyot of violence in the world, which is truer now than ever. Amerikans need to stop enabling the evils perpetrated on the world by their government.

    • @eduardocabrera9846
      @eduardocabrera9846 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I applaud your naiveness, I was also in my twenties once.
      But I regret to tell you that even if the whole world watched this speech, it really wouldn't make much of a difference. Someone once said "Those who don't know their history are destined to repeat it" , but the truth is that the only thing that history has proven is that it keeps repeating itself. If knowing had any weight on the outcome of events, there would be no more wars, slavery, dictators, inequality, hunger, etc. all of which are exacerbated in present times.
      The only meaningful thing to learn about history, is its insight into our own human nature, that we are basically hairless chimps that are utterly incapable of handling a spoonful of power, that we lose all sense of respect, empathy and love in our pursuit of such power, and when we finally get a firm grip on a big chunk of it, we literally become the most dangerous and insatiable beast on the surface of this beautiful planet.
      The world we see is a reflection of who we are as a race, we are the world.

    • @Kinkle_Z
      @Kinkle_Z 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed. Just don't give it at an obscure college in Illinois where parents want to hear uplifting themes, not be buried in the reality of end-stage Capitalism and our imperialistic horror show. (See Rockford College). That was just SO WRONG! There is a time and a place.

    • @MyLaura33
      @MyLaura33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well ya better get posting it everywhere!

    • @xiavosh
      @xiavosh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We People from the world are aware and are affected by the action of the empire and its sadistic policy implemented by its satanic rulers.

  • @fieldandstream9362
    @fieldandstream9362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    Where do you find more people like this? It's like finding a unicorn in the United States.

    • @cosmicllama6910
      @cosmicllama6910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The best part is he looks like a typical old white capitalist, but surprise!

    • @danthemansmail
      @danthemansmail 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      If you don't already know about Chris, a Unicorn is easier to find.....

    • @fieldandstream9362
      @fieldandstream9362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@danthemansmail So true 🦄

    • @765kvline
      @765kvline 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know Molly Ivens would have had a bucket load of satire to heap on the events of our time. Sorry she is gone.

    • @footballfan5462
      @footballfan5462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @GP my problem with abby martin is that she doesn't understand jewish history and the second class status they had in the muslim and christian world.

  • @MR-cz7fn
    @MR-cz7fn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Excellent speech well done, truth is and will always be the truth.

  • @gshaffer84
    @gshaffer84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    Chris Hedges, still rocking the House. Listen and grow Wiser.

    • @JamieNixx
      @JamieNixx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And still a legend!

    • @crystalgiddens7276
      @crystalgiddens7276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ is he anti Christian?

    • @abdulraheem415
      @abdulraheem415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes exactly....I've been planning to buy his books because I know it will be an education for me.

    • @abdulraheem415
      @abdulraheem415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @ wow...I agree with you 100%. It seems that we can't seem to learn from our mistakes!

    • @abdulraheem415
      @abdulraheem415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @ yes and he is beloved in the Muslim community too!!! I love Rev Chris..

  • @MehdiD.Ardebili
    @MehdiD.Ardebili 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The whole of America needs to hear this

  • @asahiglass
    @asahiglass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I have nothing but love n respect for Chris.

  • @Camcolito
    @Camcolito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Anytime you need that little pick-me-up Chris Hedges delivers.

    • @edmundmcgrath213
      @edmundmcgrath213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He's a blast at parties…

    • @Camcolito
      @Camcolito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@edmundmcgrath213 :)

    • @Camcolito
      @Camcolito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Email Subjekt 'Monger'
      Better half than none at all.

    • @jasonholden8864
      @jasonholden8864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Email Subjekt could you please elaborate mate on what chris hedges doesn't understand?

    • @briobarb8525
      @briobarb8525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How does this pick you up? 😢

  • @bijipop
    @bijipop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This man is a treasure. If we weren't doomed he would go down in history as one of the greats.

  • @alanhehe4508
    @alanhehe4508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    This was excellent, if depressing. I admire and respect Chris Hedges and if he likes ypu guys, I guess I better at least subscribe! So, good job!!

  • @Shay-ShayTV
    @Shay-ShayTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Love how he put the film “Lincoln” on blast for its revisionist history in leaving out Frederick Douglas’s contribution, how he pushed Abe to end slavery. Bravo to Chris for calling this out and for NOT watching Hollywood’s grotesque “hollywood splaining” of this country’s history..

  • @zehrajafri9252
    @zehrajafri9252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    An honest, true human being, expressing the disgust all true humans feel at the unjust degradation of humanity we see around us, only an anti human could scoff at such pain.

    • @zuzanazuscinova5209
      @zuzanazuscinova5209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The reality is that humanity was always degraded.

    • @elizabethbennet4791
      @elizabethbennet4791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yet...most do

    • @adamiskandar5107
      @adamiskandar5107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zuzanazuscinova5209 All the more we need people like him to give us hope and understanding.

    • @vergelab3399
      @vergelab3399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yet what do we do? we shake our heads in disgust, yet don't stop oiling the 'maga machine' (myself included)

    • @zehrajafri9252
      @zehrajafri9252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The power of unity for a just cause bring's about change. Force the war monger's from making and spending billions on killings and create green jobs etc to heal the planet and the life of the masses, surely a much better activity than killing the masses and planet.

  • @aliceinwonderland7594
    @aliceinwonderland7594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    listening to Chris Hedges, a man with a vision and ability to discern the reality for what it is ... cruel, abominable dehumanised state

  • @inndeep7020
    @inndeep7020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Absolutely terrifying truths revealed as only honorable Chris Hedges can tell in such a powerful and compelling historical correlation. Thank you Chris.

  • @YoungBlackJedi
    @YoungBlackJedi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.” This is beautifully put, and right on point. Pain and pleasure go hand in hand hence the sadism expressed through sexual pleasure in some mens mind from the thrill or exploitation for ones sexual pleasure. God bless you Chris!

  • @judyyee4163
    @judyyee4163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you, Mr. Hedges. You are a good and clear sighted human, and you are courageous.

  • @stephenwallace8782
    @stephenwallace8782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have gone back and forth about Chris Hedges....but I cannot doubt the goodness of his heart.
    The more I have listened, I've decided that his analysis is useful, accurate, fresh, even if it it leans on the side of the apocalyptic.
    Bless this man.

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If it is accurate and also apocalyptic, what does that mean?

    • @stephenwallace8782
      @stephenwallace8782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Forebodings.

    • @briobarb8525
      @briobarb8525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But it is also accurate and true!!! 😢

  • @hjander
    @hjander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never miss the opportunity to listen to CH. For me, he seems like the only voice I can trust.

  • @elizabethbennet4791
    @elizabethbennet4791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    duuuuuude. this FINALLY explains things for me.....thank you thank you thank you!!!!

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Welcome to the darkside

    • @fmj9346
      @fmj9346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@baronvonlimbourgh1716 indeed. I’ve been here a while. I am so depressed at this point. Everything has become so filthy.

    • @marygard4608
      @marygard4608 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree, it's a huge pile of filthy s--t.
      Now, how do we make things grow in it?
      How can we build a civilization both vibrant and kind?

  • @Rootcauses451
    @Rootcauses451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Chris doesn’t mince words. 🤜🏼🔥

  • @asparagus5428
    @asparagus5428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I love and respect Chris Hedges so much I have a separate YT folder for him apart from all my "political" folders.

    • @senogob1489
      @senogob1489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have done the same thing. Watched every speech and recorded it since he was doing it. Ron Paul. Michael Ruppert and so many others.
      It is important to have them saved as they get deleted of YT by whoever.

  • @muumarlin1731
    @muumarlin1731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Definition of 'guns blazing'. What a riveting, truthful talk, spoken right from the core of truth and delivered into our very cores. Wish everyone would watch or listen to this.

  • @matt_cummins28
    @matt_cummins28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chris in blistering form here. He forces you to peer under the covers to look directly in the eye those things that we would rather not see, even those of us who come here specifically to look at and discover them. Thanks so much to Chris Hedges and to The Sanctuary for Independent Media.

  • @Joaocruz30
    @Joaocruz30 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    An awesome mind that excels the best speeches about a reality nobody wants to see! FANTASTIC AND THANK YOU SO MUCH!

  • @Nel1y
    @Nel1y 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've been waiting for someone like Chris to fully articulate exactly what's going on. And he's done it in such a spectacular fashion. I know not many will see this let alone care to listen all the way through but this is important work. (Commenting for the algos).

  • @mechannel7046
    @mechannel7046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow. Such a powerful and poetic lecture

  • @seekerfloyd7346
    @seekerfloyd7346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Love , respect, and honor, are all due this man. Wish he could find his way from the dark, and find the Lord of Love. I hope that God will bless him, he has seen such atrocities in the wars of greed.

    • @grantc61
      @grantc61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Huh? He's SEEN the light and his work is an ACT of love.

    • @paulclissold1525
      @paulclissold1525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How many times can christianity save democracy. Its like flogging a dead horse

  • @barbginther2171
    @barbginther2171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Excellent, depressing, reality, truth, the answer. We lived it. It happened.

  • @zantecarroll4448
    @zantecarroll4448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    god i love this man! a rare courageous truth teller!

    • @johnshaw8228
      @johnshaw8228 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/3jPVCooerIo/w-d-xo.html

    • @christinelafromboise6731
      @christinelafromboise6731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chris Hedges has seen it all. He sees clearly what is happening and has a gift for pulling it all together.

  • @mrjayslab
    @mrjayslab 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't know how it happened that I missed hearing his message over the years, but I think his the most enlightened message on the www. This is the second of his TH-cam videos that I've seen. He knows a great deal and says it all clearly.

    • @paulclissold1525
      @paulclissold1525 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please james follow his journey scroll the youtube read his early books

  • @cynthialangley7338
    @cynthialangley7338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is a profound truth that needs to be taught on a widespread basis if we hope to survive

  • @savvasbambos2669
    @savvasbambos2669 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A real human being legend.
    We love you Chris. Please start your humanity movement.
    All the support.
    Thumbs up
    You have my vote for presidency from now.
    Please run for US presidency🙏🙏🙏

  • @codyjones1098
    @codyjones1098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mr. Hedges thank you! Your words and ideals are hard to take in a single sitting for me. I have to repeat the experience a few times to be able to understand the horror that is man! It shocks me; it horrifies me, even after seeing War in the service of my country. Men, women, and even small girls and boys burned alive! AS I was told this is your duty for the liberty of the world!

  • @sononi4798
    @sononi4798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Man I could listen to Chris Hedges all day even though he depresses the shit out if me 😒🍺🍺🍺🍺

  • @hollyolson5195
    @hollyolson5195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    WOW! Hedges is my new hero!
    He puts into words much of what I have been feeling.

    • @Quote23rd
      @Quote23rd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The universe smiles upon you.

  • @henriettealkhouri7432
    @henriettealkhouri7432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I do hope that our lives and struggles are being documented, and that history will condemn the brutal force of the Empire , the oligarchs, the banks, the Media and finally the Military, that wreaked havoc in the world , all under the guise of Democracy.

    • @Mark_Chandler
      @Mark_Chandler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the cartels, the gangs, the police. etc

    • @fmj9346
      @fmj9346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Mark_Chandler And their followers of whom there are many.

    • @briobarb8525
      @briobarb8525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Documented and said by so few...and only remembered LONG AFTER it is finally and sadly allowed. History repeating itself.

  • @ashleymistletoe
    @ashleymistletoe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Every word of his, a stab in my heart. Every word, the sound of truth, and the heartbreaking beauty of a poem too truthful. A mirror pushed up to us for us to see who we truly are. When will we, human being as one, will wake up from all the mental illness, endless greed and cruelty? Chris, conscience of our time.

    • @fabiengerard8142
      @fabiengerard8142 ปีที่แล้ว

      👌🏻👌🏽👌 You quite right about naming this speech of his A POEM. Its literary quality - or should I say its perfectly balanced lyricism - definitely contributes making it so remarkably powerful.

  • @tylerlynch2849
    @tylerlynch2849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am so happy that this exists, and you guys do your work. God bless Chris Hedges, and you all

  • @timtam2126
    @timtam2126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome speech thanks from New Zealand

  • @anotherrobot3076
    @anotherrobot3076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    Guaranteed not one meat-head at work could even begin to digest this talk. I'm in hell.

    • @flash_flood_area
      @flash_flood_area 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My condolences. My old friend and neighbor said that what he knew was that Hedges is "a gadfly", although I'm certain he's never listened to him.

    • @anotherrobot3076
      @anotherrobot3076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mike Gravel = gadfly.
      Donald Rummsfeld = hero.
      I don't buy it.

    • @BernieHollandMusic
      @BernieHollandMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@anotherrobot3076 Mike Gravel - champion of peace - Donald Rumsfeld - purveyor of war

    • @celtictexan
      @celtictexan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BernieHollandMusic both part of natures intent, through evolution.

    • @gladyslustgirdle3004
      @gladyslustgirdle3004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sympathies to you. Please do not weaken.

  • @nohumbug8636
    @nohumbug8636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Don’t forget the glorification of the trophy hunters who happily grin over the corpses of defenseless creatures.

    • @marygard4608
      @marygard4608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Every time I see a trophy deer head mounted on someone's wall I say "You must have really hated that deer".
      (I forget the movie reference).

  • @TheJgibbons
    @TheJgibbons 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I pray that such darkness does not tear the love from his heart.

  • @nicholasrodriguez2581
    @nicholasrodriguez2581 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Woke me up! 20 years ago I heard your lecture. My hospital job started doing those things you spoke about; changing our benefits, denying our benifits if late on payments, the low morale of the lower paid workers, no respect for each other, hostile environment, weak management, assaultive behavior, etc.

  • @ToddAndelin
    @ToddAndelin ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting this.
    This is incredible

  • @victoria5167
    @victoria5167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    We as Filpinos had been lied to. Through the social media We manage to learn the truth about history

  • @Robert-qh3ok
    @Robert-qh3ok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Chris Hedges...you are an inspiration!

  • @williamengels8216
    @williamengels8216 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hedges is an education in himself, I cannot thank this man enough for his work.

  • @carlosmbaziira4137
    @carlosmbaziira4137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Chris hedges is the voice of consciousness that is almost divine in it's introspection of the state of man. We should listen attentively 😃👌

  • @Wanamaker1946
    @Wanamaker1946 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We’re in Church here and this is an electrifying Sermon. We need to return to Christ. ..I know, too much responsibility….but really, we need saving.

  • @suzanneharris8339
    @suzanneharris8339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Such a brave, gifted thinker & speaker! Thank you, Chris. 🤗

    • @briobarb8525
      @briobarb8525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Much more than a thinker and speaker...he is a deep feeler!

  • @brianvalero6272
    @brianvalero6272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    What saddens me the most is that the only reason he is allowed to say this stuff is that the powers that be dont feel threatened in any way shape or form. Those who can afford it need to teach their children survival tactics. No help is coming. We all need to acknowledge that.

    • @jeffsyrop
      @jeffsyrop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "What saddens me the most is that the only reason he is allowed to say this stuff is that the powers that be dont feel threatened in any way shape or form."
      This is a great point. Chris had better be careful. I notice he's becoming a bit more charismatic lately. Americans are allowed to speak truth to power like this publicly as long as they are incapable of fomenting actual revolutionary acts. But once they catch on -- MLK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, John Lennon -- it's a guaranteed bullet to the head.

  • @monatinnell4570
    @monatinnell4570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Chris is with no doubt today’s voice for the oppressed the marginalized. My only wish is that we could elect him to public office. Think of what a utopia we could exist in with individual’s who thought like Chris lead our nation. I love him for his phenomenal insight.
    Thank You Chris Hedges

  • @t8kithigher758
    @t8kithigher758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ah, So refreshing So intoxicating to hear Hedges

  • @dzidkab7189
    @dzidkab7189 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you very much from Poland. Today is October 16, 2024. Very informative lecture. I lived in chicago for 33 years and I had a lot of knowledge about what you said. Interesting and full of details.

  • @obsoleteoptics
    @obsoleteoptics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Slavery was never abolished, it was nationalized. Don't believe me? Read the 13th Amendment again.

  • @ConTrollerNorth2
    @ConTrollerNorth2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Keep speaking that truth, brother. Much love

  • @LetsGoGetThem
    @LetsGoGetThem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    It's weird to think I have been listening to this man speak for over 10 years now on TH-cam. I saw his first talk around 2010.
    His words are always prophetic, and that's what frightens me.

    • @vickishook9715
      @vickishook9715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, I ingest every word, sometimes rewatching his lectures, I learn new things each time. I'm trying to burn the truth into my psyche to serve as a boundary against the daily propaganda.

    • @lesleysidhoum1779
      @lesleysidhoum1779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have only just heard of this man ! He enunciates everything I feel about our world at present with such honesty and clarity .Sadly I have never seen him on the BBC in the UK but will certainly scour the net to listen to him more fully .

    • @LetsGoGetThem
      @LetsGoGetThem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@lesleysidhoum1779 Dont listen to too much in one go, or you will get really depressed. Especially the older ones where you realize he is predicting stuff that already happened like climate change getting worse in the early 2000s.

    • @xXEvangelXx
      @xXEvangelXx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LetsGoGetThem I like the Parenti line where says that the bourgeoisie need to rope people in with their own stories, because otherwise they will float off into reality.
      Chris Hedges floated off a little too far

    • @kathyadair8552
      @kathyadair8552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lesleysidhoum1779 👍
      🇮🇪🇬🇧+ |🇺🇸:🇫🇷🇨🇦+

  • @robcooke6980
    @robcooke6980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Another stray collective, amongst many, chipping away simultaneously at the Ogre. This is not radical, folks, this is the zeitgeist and you're in the right place. Thanks Chris, best regards.

  • @adamschroeder1195
    @adamschroeder1195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Chris Hedges is the BOSS of the world - Absolute treasure and true journalist

  • @MyLaura33
    @MyLaura33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Orwell did say, "The farther a society gets from the truth, the harder it is for them to hear it" Like the dutiful wife slapped around by her husband, she stays threatened in the dire safety of the familiar. And deadly.

  • @lisafosse6031
    @lisafosse6031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This Bible verse sums up the whole speech. Jer 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it.”

  • @johnnydevault7838
    @johnnydevault7838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I saw this a couple days ago.
    Amazing!

    • @mediasanctuary
      @mediasanctuary  3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Thank you! The original link was the Zoom livestream. This is the professionally shot, directed, and edited cut so it's higher resolution and doesn't have any of the lags that the livestream had.

    • @johnnydevault7838
      @johnnydevault7838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Pontius Pilate Likewise 🙏❤

    • @natalies7030
      @natalies7030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I watched it on zoom in real time, as always Chris Hedges was great.

    • @johnnydevault7838
      @johnnydevault7838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@natalies7030 History will show he was (our) modern day prophet!

    • @joeymurdazalotmore6355
      @joeymurdazalotmore6355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johnnydevault7838 Proven ahead of his time which dont help the man sleep better at all

  • @reefk8876
    @reefk8876 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mr Hedges is a brother in humanity. Deep insight. Thank you for posting this!