Loyalty, Friendship, and Moral Trade-offs

Why was Noam Chomsky – scourge of the american elite – BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein, the personification of the worst aspects of that elite?  

Why was Chomsky giving Epstein advice on how to deal with attacks against him in the media, months after a series of exposés appeared in the press detailing the extent of his crimes?  

Why was Chomsky bemoaning the “hysteria about the abuse of women” to someone accused of having sex trafficked dozens of under age girls?  

At first glance all of this seems completely as inexcusable as it is incomprehensible.  Chris Hedges’ declaration that Chomsky was seduced by the pimpin’ jetset superstar lifestyle that Epstein gave him access to, seems to be the only sensible explanation.  

But when you actually read the relevant emails, and look at them in the context and timeline of the accusations, and of Chomsky’s life and contemporary events – things very quickly start to make sense, and what becomes inexcusable is Hedges and the army of posturing leftfluencers throwing Chomsky under the bus so quickly, without even examining the evidence first.  

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00:00 Hello fellow kids: into

1:06 Chomsky’s Intellectual class: the Clergy of Capitalism

4:06 “Brand of Me” politics and cancel culture

5:46 Chomsky’s early activism vs. O.G. cancel culture

8:24 A lone left voice in the 1980s to early 2000s

9:39 Chomsky’s message vs Capitalists, Stalinists and Post-Modernists

12:50 The accusations against Chomsky

14:18 What most people knew about Epstein in 2015

15:57 Epstein’s 2008 conviction

17:31 Jerome Seinfeld vs Noam Chomsky

18:34 How did Chomsky and Epstein become BFFs?

20:28 The crime of hanging out with “literal fascists”

24:11 Chomsky vs Finkelstein: why we need to read a variety of authors

24:46 Chomsky’s shocking advice to Epstein in context

29:05 The total incongruence of Chomsky’s advice vs Epstein’s crimes

31:10 Chomsky’s advice in the context of late #MeToo and peak cancel culture

35:36 Interpreting the evidence: Professor Hedges X vs Normal Humans

38:21 Chomsky vs. Leftfluencer rat finks: who would you rather have as a friend? 

39:56 Chomsky & Epstein vs other great buddy combos

41:48 Another bad call that Chomsky made that was also used against him

43:13 Who benefits from ignoring the evidence?

44:15 Michael Parenti vs Noam Chomsky?

50:23 Tuition increases replace left wing scholars with pseudo-left wing wankers

54:57 Chomsky vs. Parenti continued: what is socialism?

57:52 Why the USSR became authoritarian

59:13 Go do something!