Chris Hedges, "America: The Farewell Tour"
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- Chris Hedges, "America: The Farewell Tour", at Politics and Prose on 8/22/18.
A longtime foreign correspondent, Hedges has reported from more than fifty countries. His latest book is a profound exploration of one of the most troubled: today’s United States. Hedges, author of American Fascists and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, cites the opioid crisis, the increases in gambling and magical thinking, and the explosion of xenophobia as symptoms of a society that has lost hope. He traces this disillusionment to the twin ills of a de facto corporate coup d’état and a failed democracy. The anger and frustration these have spawned helped bring Trump to power and Hedges issues a passionate call to action to reverse them.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig out of Los Angeles and is host of the Emmy Award-winning RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches college credit courses in the New Jersey prison system.
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I thank god for people like Chris Hedges, Jimmy Dore, Kyle Kulinski, Abby Martin, etc., who battle for us while we work our asses off just to survive. Thank you so Much Chris.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Telling the truth for russian tv?
midwestkatie Telling the truth for all of us. The scenarios Chris Hedges speaks about are taking place right now in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe.
You can bang your patriotic drum all you like.
It doesn’t alter the truth that our economic system is completely unfit for purpose, on perpetual life-support and headed for the rocks.
He likes to blame Clinton for Nafta when the real blame should be Reagan/Bush
Yes i agree, these party people wont quit the party scene.well, if that's all they have, they will go party and make it their empty life. both sides!
@@midwestkatie8068 isn't it strange that only RT mentions glyphosate in our agricultural industry? Why wouldn't American news media even WHISPER about how toxic our genetically modified and petro-chemically poisoned agricultural industry really is or how it effects our daily lives? Something so crucial should not be ignored, but there is NOTHING on major channels about this. I will, however, concede that RT is a limited hangout when it comes to national and political intrigue as to who was really behind IX/XI and what brought us into 17 years of "bringing democracy to the middle east" narrative or anything to do with US funding and support of Israel and Israeli atrocities against the native Palestinian people. Every "good" limited hangout supplies a hint of real information mixed into the controlled narrative to legitimize their fabricated talking points. What a world.
I enjoyed this talk immensely, but what I found annoying was members from the audience goading Hedges to "lighten" the dire situation we're in as a species. They keep asking for him to participate in the "mania for hope". That's like pushing the mailman to bring you a $1 million check, instead of just bills, etc. It's not Hedges' "job" to make us hopeful. He's delivering information and facts. Now, it is up to us to use this information to ACT, to find that hope within others of like minds and ACT and stop looking for people to make us feel good.
Exactly.
Roger Williams, I agree.
Hedges comes from a much greater depth of consciousness than the audience. He understands how ruthless ultimate truth can be. His phrase "sublime madness" is a great summary.
Wow, this guy is way too credible to be saying all this in public. Brave soul.
I saw Chris give this talk last night in Berkeley, and it was electrifying. I can't remember the last time I saw someone give such a passionate and incendiary speech that cut directly through the bullshit into the heart of the matter...
Brilliant. God protect Chris Hedges. We need more like him.
It's too bad I can't find a single person in real life that understands anything about these topics. RIP localized resistance. These fools only want to drink booze and watch football, go fishing, watch netflix, and talk about how they can get laid. I am called "too political" or a "conspiracy theorist" to denounce and ignore any attempts at critical thought or dialog amongst the public. I have very little hope in any real progress for humanity.
Join the club. It's lonely up here
You are so right
It's painful! It's pure agony seeing people who are absent from reality.
Join the club! My own Mother laughed at me for storing grains of rice. They have done a marvelous job of dumbing down the masses! They'll never know what hit them.
Every once in awhile, you should take a break from political discussion to go to a museum, a concert or gasp get laid...all can be beautiful. From a Trump supporter.
12:37 "their anger was even greater at the Democratic party...because it was the Democratic party that had betrayed them."
Thank you, Chris Hedges. Betrayal is the word I've been searching for. We were promised something very different from what we have, or don't have.
genericsomething Did the dem party betray us or did they do what they thought they had to to survive?
Their main source of money...unions...were destroyed. Shame on the left for.letting THAT happen throughout the last 50 years.
Charlie Chaplin you realize that he's saying that the democrats caused that through nafta. The betrayal referred to at the highlighted time
I am so thankful for Hedges. He keeps us sane in all this downward insanity for decades now. Young thinkers need to read him. Rise up.
This was one of the best Chris Hedges talks I've seen. He went deep into his major ideas, and all of it was in one place. Bravo, sir, bravo.
Those who do not learn history, are doomed to repeat it!
George Santayana
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Mark Twain
I second the emotion of the fellow who referred to the money system. In 1971, gold was $35 an ounce, or $1.13 per gram (there are 31.1 grams per troy ounce). The federal minimum wage in 1971 was $1.60. So, the lowest wage earning, least skilled people in the United States only had to work 70% of one hour to earn the equivalent of a gram of gold. This was the absolute apex of the earning power of the American working class. Today, gold is $1,200 per ounce, or $38.59 per gram. People who talk about $15 an hour being a living wage are insane. The minimum wage should be closer to $50 an hour ($38.59 + 30%), more than three times the $15 an hour, "living wage."
Chris Hedges is our very own prophet of doom. The most important writer of our age.
Prophesying truth of either the impending doom of empire or civilization itself.
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And consumers are online buying with joy, separated from the reality that they are destroying their communities, local schools, closing local stores. Anything for a deal.
Dan Harris. There's always the point in his presentation where the mixture of petit-bourgeois fatalism and political naïeté comes out so thick that I have to navigate away. This time it was around minute 32:10 I'm an ex-seminarian myself and even had two close friends who went through Harvard Divinity School. There's a special kind of ingenue that afflicts seminarians and that I both feel comfortable with and at the same time find myself embarrassed by. There, but for the grace of God, go I. Pretty good imitation of Chris Hedges, don't you think? Luckily I had some serious activist friends who rescued me from the life of the cloth and showed me the bright red light of Lenin.
We need more Marxist professors on universities to make doom great again.
I think it is only appropriate to use this kind of rhetoric when anything that comes out from the white house makes no sense. I have been observing the situation of the US quite intensively and unfortunately I have to say that Chris Hedges seems to have the clearest vision of what is really going on - and not only in the US. I do not agree with him on every subject and as an atheist I could - and maybe should - start a war against him and his ideas. And obviously he is a communist too, so why bother. Why consider anything he says? I wish I didn't have to tell you, but... he obviously has spent time in variety places that most of us will never see and even know. He does not base his thinking on one simple ideology or belief. He is a reporter, not a rain man or or a god. It's insanely naive to mock him for not solving the problems after he has spent his time going through the bellies of several ugly beasts. All the best from Finland, we still know what it means when someone yells timber and also that the collapse this big will obviously have a serious effect on us too. And yes, we are also guilty. This is something that we all have always known but we never cared, we just don't care.
Enlightened talk with a good Q and A. Chris is warning Americans, ignore him at your peril.
Thank you Mr.Hedges. Your bravery and dedication and clarity is inspiring.
Chris Hedges is firing on all cylinders here. He writes beautifully and gives some powerful speeches but this is the first time I've seen him interact so passionately with his audience. Bravo!
Exactly
Chris is so courageous to speak to the truth of what is happening, and indeed what is coming!
All the kids are busy viewing Marvel films as “Rome” burns.
Bread and circuses
Seamus Warren Or spending hours upon hours a day playing Call of Duty or Madden or whatever the hot game is this year...
Chris, if you read this...THANK YOU! You speak for so many of us who don't have the knowledge that you do on these subjects, nor the time or wherewithal to do so. Many of us working class slobs are just trying to keep up with our livrs, let alone having to fight all of this injustice and power we're all up against. So again, thx! You are a gem and we appreciate you. I am hoping to be able to buy one of your books to learn, but also to pass on the knowledge, as well as share these videos. Viva la revolucion!
I have nothing but respect for Chris. As a non-American, I can sadly confirm that people like him are rarity across the globe. His speech is mesmerizing and extremely insightful. I can't thank him enough for having the courage to tell the truth, at a time where truth tellers are labeled enemy.
When truth-tellers & whistleblowers are persecuted & jailed, you know you got crooks in control.
I wish I could give this a million thumbs up. THANKS for posting! Hedges really nailed it this time.
Bravo Chris Hedges, so few voices like yours. Have learned much from you.
Wow. The undercurrent of most of the questions were about a despair people are feeling. We have to be willing to resist even in the face of losing the battle because to resist is the right thing to do. Thanks Chris. Respect.
Hedges is on fire here.
He's been in great form both here on his book tour and on his show recently.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a sick society
Mr. Hedges, you are an incredible human being. Can't wait to read your new book.
"The only way that relationships can be built, face to face."
Certainly one of the finest nights of discussion and exchange I've witnessed, thank you for keeping Chris Hedges in view.
Chris Hedges is one of the greatest minds of our generation.
Excellent talk by Chris. Respect
Aptly titled.
Chris doesn’t have much hope because he is a realist and knows most Americans these days are not up for the challenge. Just look at the applause he got. These people are just hoping shit doesn’t blow up before they can enjoy a few years of retirement.
Most people these days don’t have a clue just how bad things are getting, let alone capable or even willing to do anything meaningful about it.
That would mean getting down and dirty.
Cookie Monster: You speak truth. How do I know? Because I am 61 and "just hoping things don't blow up" too soon to enjoy a few years of retirement. I'm unafraid of "down and dirty", but what the hell can I do?
Yup. The Elites will flee this country when it crumbles before us. They already have homes around the world. And when we pick up the pieces while millions dies. They will return and buy up the properties and gain more wealth, this is the Rothchild's method of becoming the richest family in history.
The second sentence of your comments just made me laugh out loud.
the weirdest thing about this video is just watching a room full of people sit there and listen to it like he's not telling them their entire way of life and everything they've known is headed straight down the toilet
I’ve had people explicitly admit that to me, ‘hey at least I won’t be around for that’
I can't help but to freeze the screen at 8 seconds into this video. Look at the demographic. Most of the folks are around my age (62) or older. Maybe it is the time of day, may the location. Good to see the Rel News Network shirt. Time is running out for us. We failed, as a demographic, to make the changes those older than us fought, bled and died for in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Our demographic is in power now and what have we done? Sold out big time. Is there enough of us, enough wisdom, enough hear, to join those younger than us to finally make our country the place it should have been since the British betrayed the native American? As I listen to Chris I wonder. "And it makes me wonder"
I had your same impression at first. Later I got a better look (or other people had arrived) and it seemed there were more younger people than I'd noticed before. For the rest, I concur. I wonder too as I spend my days electronically scotched to alternative news.....
People in this demographic destroyed the environment.
"Most of the folks are around my age (62) or older." I agree. I was at the wonderful Left Forum the last two years and the average age is probably 55. I hope that the youth are educating themselves on the internet now, because when things fall apart it is difficult to learn the truth and easy to be lead astray by authoritarian leaders who were waiting for the collapse.
Everybody else has to work 1 to 4 jobs to survive. Only retirees have the luxury...and never blame those who have very little power. You're ascribing blame to the wrong people.
+Joe Ciliberto I would be careful about falling into the trap of blaming boomers for all of our ills. There is a reason the right is pushing that point of view. Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux, Paul Joseph Watson, and a host of others have been beating that drum for years and it's working. It's intentionally divisive and designed to pit millennials against their liberal parents & elders. It's a political propaganda strategy that has been used over and over again including by Chairman Mao and Hitler in the 20th century.
It is also factually inaccurate to blame boomers above all others. Most Fortune 500 CEOs are in their 50s which makes them Gen X, not boomers. Half of Congress are boomers but the other half are not. Age is not the common denominator. Power is..... and power corrupts.
Seriously, enough with the self-loathing and generational blaming. It is counterproductive and it's exactly what people who don't have average Americans' best interests at heart want.
People wants to hear about hope but Chris Hedges message is there is no hope if ppl is not prepaired to hard work, sacrifice and most of all organize against powerful forces, that is the cost of hope.
Mr Hedges is a bastion of knowledge and bravery. I would follow him to a revolution.
Thank you Sir for being an outspoken person, we need more people like you.
TRUTH.
Mr. Hedges has a mind that is beyond extraordinary. He speaks a truth born of true knowledge and experience - which is why he is generally shunned by the dissembling, deceitful establishment.
Wow, great stuff! Glad I couldn't sleep, got up and found this!
This is pure poetry to hear so much truth about this modern day Mongol empire.
One antidote I have found to despair is the Stoic philosophy which I study deeply and with great intensity. Thank you Chris Hedges.
I simply love this man!
What a legend; love listening to Hedges any day.
Chris Hedges, you are a patriot sir!
Very Powerful presentation... yes Truth always wins. So stand up for Truth...
A global problem of neolibralism, late stage capitalism and environmental hell.
"Fascism is capitalism in decay." - Vladimir Lenin
Yes may I also add, "Behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution." - Walter Benjamin
chris hedge on coffe. love it
A major BRAVO for outing Bill Clinton.
We need to start national consumer unions if employees can't organize and form unions than we need to do it as consumers hit these big companies where it hurts the bottom line. Go after the biggest first McDonald's Walmart Amazon we set a start date and we don't buy from them until they pay a living wage. When you start having victories then people will see the power we actually have and we can have a real anti war movement.
Warms my heart to see another person wearing The Real News t-shirt in the audience. Proudly wear mine. Bought this book also.
We watch The Real News yet in Russia
If people do Not start looking at themselves, look in the mirror, at their own lives and how THEY behaved dysfunctionally, co dependently, enabling, disempowered, ALLOWING the Corps and Wall St to get All the leverage,, NOTHING will change.
We're living in a MASS Abusive, Dysfunctional relationship and I knew it and called it out as a 6 & 7!! year old and fought abusers and enablers Right around me harder than most "adults" do to the PTB.
The "family" is the micro of the macro. The signs were Right in front of people but, people have NO idea what Health is,, emotional, relationship health and terms Like Co Dependency and Enabling.
I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN SINCE THE 70'S!
I really enjoyed Mr. Hedges discussion here. Very good. Though we're not happy what Clinton and Obama had done, let's don't forget about Reagan when he was in office our manufacturing jobs were going overseas in droves leaving Americans flat with hardly any job security. Reagan's loyal support of the wealthy and how they should be rewarded: "He froze the minimum wage, slashed federal assistance to local governments by 60%, cut public housing, implemented tax policies for the wealthy, cut down Medicaid, food stamps, federal education programs, and the EPA. . . he raised our national debt from "$997 billion to $2.85 trillion for our grandchildren to pay for it. So, let's don't forget this piece of history, too, Mr. Hedges, and where it really began in this country when corporations abandoned their American workers to send their jobs overseas for less wages, no unions, no benefits, no health insurance and betray the American public's trust and confidence in the system (The Unfair Well Tour).
Despair.... Edge of sanity.....
Than Chris Hedges on you tube uses such term: "Sublime madness"
Sir, may I say, "I love you"
Thank you.
Just jump to the beginning of the Q&A. Chris Hedges is on FIRE there to the very end of this clip. Wow!
I want to commend Chris Hedges. I am a cynic disguised as a optimist but history shows keeps me locked into realty. Mr. H. I give you major respect I have researched you and you humble me!! You sir and those who will follow your example are our only hope.
I recommend czcams.com/video/ySnk-f2ThpE/video.html
Thank you Chris for speaking TRUTH to power. You are an awesome journalist, author & human being!!
I struggle (constructively!) with much of Hedges' thinking; I wonder if he relies overmuch on a kind of "vanguard of great suffering resisters", for instance; but I think I would have blown my brains out by now if it weren't for his unique (moral and intellectual) contribution, and I thank him desperately for it.
I find it hard to confront this brutal reality he speaks about but resisting in whatever way without violence is the way to our freedom. But you are right. I listen to Chris or Noam as if my life depends on it too.
Brilliant!!! They can take our lives .....But Never Our Freedom!!!!! Resistance is Never Futile!!!!!
SlyBoy Jack Only thing we can do at this point is to spend the little money we have wisely.
Chris Hedges is the real deal. Thanks so much for putting this up.
Luv chris hedges. A true prophet.
My gosh we humans are scaring chris hedges! Reality right now is scaring me too.
Excellent work Chris! You have covered these issues multiple times in your writing and speeches; but, your passion and delivery, especially in the Q&A, is outstanding! Thank you for also urging us again not to rely on hope. "Hope is longing for a future condition in which one has no agency"...not my quote, but it is so true.
standing rock was the match to ignite the fires of revolution.but all it did was blow out in the cold wind. i seen it but apparently no one else did.
I know...it's really upsetting. Most of us just watched it happen on CZcams then forgot about it once they got kicked off the land.
Amen! Organize! March! Vote!
America: The Farewell Tour, coming soon to a town near you.
Thank you Chris for telling the American people the truth on how we were marginalized by the polical process. Now we know how the minority have been treated. You give hope that change could happen. its time to tell our political leaders that we are done with there failed neo liberal policies. There has never been a greater time to rise up a third party. AMERICAN SPRING
Right. From Russia tv. I don't get that. I keep bringing it up, not to be a troll. I just really don't understand.
Sorry you feel that way, RT AMERICA is one of the few platforms where you can speak the honest truth, There has never been a greater time for americans to know the truth about our governments not representing the people.You need to educate youraelf on the facts. All do respect my friend.
Richard Wolff On Reaganomics start here.
+midwestkatie
Obviously. Hedges, the late Ed Shultz, Bart Chilton, Lee Camp, Max Keiser, and Mike Papantonio are all paid agents of Putin. Yup. Too bad you don't actually take the time to tune in and see what they actually say.
RT is an independant news agency. Your way off base.
That RealNews Tshirt.
Because I've read a few of his books and listened to some lectures, I am familiar with his rhetoric. I am finding this talk a bit rambling though. He is still one of the great few voices crying in the wilderness.
Excellent and enlightening talk by Chris. Thanks for your efforts and tenacity! Keep up the good work.
Good lord we're screwed. All I can think of to do is to emigrate somewhere else.
I did, but it's only a reprieve. All the human turpitude is coming here, too. And climate change is sparing no one.
Unfortunately there isn't a 'somewhere else'. I live in Australia, rich in resources, space and beauty but our our economy has been destroyed in the name of 'climate change' and cost of living is killing people.
Stay where you are and fight!
Ryan S Many of my friends with immigrant parents or grandparents have already started applying for citizenship (Jamaica, England, Sweden, France, Germany)
You know that is a 1st idea, or 1st alternative solution, or 1st option that comes to mind. However the powers to be are striving at making this strife of life and living a global standard. Those in government powers want disadvantage to be a normalization and for there to be a standard of extreme rich and extreme poor. We cant turn and run we must stay, we must stand, we must speak up, speak out and fight.
to where? can't emigrate from capitalism, can't emigrate from climate change
I have to be optimistic or else I’ll go crazy.
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee:
For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Revelation 18:23
It's official...I love Chris Hedges. I read his latest book and it was amazing. The second guy who asked a question sounds like he just couldn't accept the truth about the world that we live in.
Very inspirational i love it.
How do you resist the Great Year history, every 25,920 yrs.....Learn ancient history....understand the stars....learn how to free you soul.....stress is how you don't win!
Chris Hedges is the best at what he does. Brilliant.
Stephen Hawking estimated civilization has less than 100 years.
That sounds about right to me. (sadly)
Great writer, great man, america had the choice to seek out the voice of reason as chris exposes, but mans greed always repeats itself as does history. Greed knows no bounds, so the collapse is predestined
Amazing!! What a stunning brilliant and passionate person.
Listen to Mr. Hedges till the end; he is right.
You are Brillant!!!😇💪
Fear salad.
Keep strong the separation of church and state and we'll probably be ok eventually. Magical thinking is killing us.
Rome thought the same thing and things turned out OK for them..
It's already happening we just have become acclimated or numb to it.
Yeah those damn moral values ans ehtics... really need distance from those ¿?
Yeah that's magical thinking Ken... and it can kill us.
very well said....thought provoking in so many ways. prompts one to act so as to address the ills after one understands how did they come about in the first place.
I would like to show this in my college English classes. I would assign the book, but most of my students can just barely read -- a very frightening outcome of "smart" phone addiction, imo.
Thanks for posting this! Chris Hedges needs to be heard by all Americans
Organize! Organize! Organize!
And then do your gig in person.
"grotesques social inequality"
Awesome Mr. Hedges, please continue woth your "walk-the-walk talk-the-tank" way of life, you're an inspiration.
Rights have never been anything but temporary priveliges, just like George Carlin also once pointed out. Priveleges that will vanish the moment we really need them.
Uplifting! Thanks Chris!
Amazing and brave of this man telling us the truth and stop believing in someone is going to save us.Live for today and develop good relationship and resist those to who want to control you!!!
Chris Hedges is making history!
No. He's writing an obituary.
Revealing & motivating!
Hedges is great if it’s the first time you’ve heard him speak. With time and reflection you realize that he’s been predicting doom and talking about how bad things are for the past decade or so. Yes, things are bad, which is why it’s important to inspire and talk about solutions. Also, I must add that I don’t like Chris’s anarchistic streak and his unquestioning subservience to Chomsky.
CHRIS HEDGES WISEST MAN IN AMERICA.
This has to be Chris at his best, ever.🤐
one of the brightest minds of our time, just love listening to this clever man
Thank you for hosting Chris Hedges on his new book tour. I admire and respect and value Chris Hedges and his work. But in this appearance, he seemed scattered and unfocused. There were a couple of questions about 'what to do next'. Until he said: "We go to the street." (go to 51:11) 'Nuff said. I shed a tear at that moment because I believe that's what will happen, even beyond Trump because our political system has been thouroughly corrupted.
I love your humor & earthiness, Chris. You have the grace to welcome "us" into your view of "our" world based on your experiences & education that most of us will never have.
I agree we need a revolution! There are more of us 99% than them 1% do the math!
Love the young guy who stated Jill Stein is tainted by media - I voted for her but she needs to step down. I wish Bernie, Nina Turner & Tulsi would turn Green, the only way progressives can win.
The Power's that be should remember this country was founded on Revolution.