“poor deluded zirconium, not only don’t I think it, I wouldn’t really be comfortable
if it happened.”

Tell someone who cares if you’re ‘comfortable’. I don’t.

poor deluded zirconium, not only don’t I think it, I wouldn’t really be comfortable
if it happened.

“nicest thing you’ve ever said about me.  thanks.”

Don’t mention it, but I’ve never said anything nice about you. Your ego just thinks I have.

Feeding a plutocracy might be a bad thing, but we shouldnt keep feeding Mr Moose either.

What would Elizabeth Warren do? She who laid the intellectual foundation of Occupy Wall Street must have an opinion about the Moose at Occupy Harvard:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1381558

@hetero
” decline in demand is going to cause the marginal supplier to be
pushed out, it isn’t necessarily going to reduce the quality of the product. “

I said nothing about decline of demand - I am talking about quality - not quantity.

The consumer culture depends on bypassing critical thought - since our ‘educational’ centers have been absorbed by the corporatocracy , education is purchased like fast food and sportswear - for fun and easy access, the image and semblance of knowledge, rather than the reality. And reality is the prime subject of philosophy.

diamond~~~~ You are the anti-ChrisHedges in terms of clarity, content and moral
purpose.~~~~

nicest thing you’ve ever said about me.  thanks.

“does it to you sound like “dead ideas” is something that Hegdes in way of
commendation?

or is he simply being a troll about Harvard?”

Incoherence at work. You are the anti-ChrisHedges in terms of clarity, content and moral purpose.

” it is an institution that epitomizes the dead ideas of the 1%”

does it to you sound like “dead ideas” is something that Hegdes in way of
commendation?

or is he simply being a troll about Harvard?

” do believe that Hedges’ pal Brother Cornell was teaching
there at the time….Funny how Hedges finds West’s stuff
worthy and yet thinks Harvard offers nothing of value.”

Hedges never claimed that Harvard offered nothing of value. 
He simply points to the role that Harvard and other elite
schools play in the maintenance of economic and cultural
dogmas, and the training of those who will serve within the
institutions of what he correctly calls out as plutocracy.

Ray~~~~~ decline in demand is going to cause the marginal supplier to be
pushed out, it isn’t necessarily going to reduce the quality of the product.

Initially it might cause improved instruction as the less qualified instructors
leave the field.

I credit your report of your experiences at UCLA , but suggest that it may not
represent the entirety of the field.

My undergrad major was PHi and my son’s also ...the instruction he received I
thought to be pretty good and his friend Matt, a contemporary of his, I believe
to have received better instruction as a philosophy major at that school in
Boston that Hedges is decrying.

I do believe that Hedges’ pal Brother Cornell was teaching there at the
time….Funny how Hedges finds West’s stuff worthy and yet thinks Harvard
offers nothing of value.

@heterochromatic
You perhaps are not understanding that universities are primarily businesses and educational centers secondarily -
Therefore they are subject to supply and demand - the quality of the product (philosophy and philosophy teachers) being a function of what the consumers (students) are willing to pay for.
Indeed philosophy teaching has declined - I’ve experienced it first hand at UCLA.

RayLan~~~~”  the arts and humanities have steadily declined - especially
philosophy - my favorite study…”

it ain’t philosophy that’s declined….it’s the students who decline to accept the
harder truths of it…easier to buy into all soft soap and popular pap preached by
the social scientists…...

Posted this to the wrong article.
I haven’t been to ivy league, but in all the other colleges I’ve been to, the arts and humanities have steadily declined - especially philosophy - my favorite study - This is only to be expected in the endoctrination mills that are demurely called places of higher learning - because philosophy teaches you how to think - and that is what the war is about - because thought is the engine of freedom - and consequently slavery.
God Bless anti-intellectual America

As always, inspiring and brilliantly incisive.  The
obfuscations, misrepresentations, denialisms and
diversions of the news media, in a concerted effort
to NOT ascribe any particular importance to the OWS
movement, are torn to shreds by people like Chris
Hedges, who has done his homework, knows the issues,
knows the protagonists and understands the full
implications of this rebellion that will NOT go away.

MANY MANY thanks to Chris for his most needed and
useful commentary.  KEEP IT COMING !!!  We need it
and more, a kind of intellectual ammunition for the
battles to come.  The easy dismissal, the pathetic
attempt to pretend that it will just blow over and
that we will all become obedient little consumerists,
borrowers and dedicated slave labor pensionless and
benefitless zombies is a fairy tale which the 1%
cling onto as their reality and security blanket. 
But there is no security, and…eventually, the
guilty parties WILL be held responsible.

@ hetero

Hey Krazo - you can’t troll the truth out of what Hedges
has to say.  Best of luck to your efforts troll.

and Marty Peretz who actually is worse than
Dershowitz….

but your Palestinian leaders are still even worse
than are the Zionists.

Disgusting religious zealot terrorists running Gaza
and a kleptocracy in the West.

Between them ant the ugly racists in Netanyahu’s
cabinet it’s hard to maintain hope for better times
for the Palestinian people being ground down by all
three sets of swine.

It’s enough indictment against Harvard’s evil that it counts among its ranks the very evil radical Zionist, Alan Dershowitz, who is known to lead an organization that gives scholarships to selective students in major universities who are willing to work as spices against professors and faculty who are deemed politically incorrect. Many excellent professors have been the victims of his spy web, including some conscientious Jews who dared to speak against the evils of Israel!

I came very close to loosing my job at a major university due to the work of Dershowitz’s spies. But I know that they will continue to build a case against me till they see me out! But, I am not going to give them that pleasure since I am already planning to resign in retirement!

In brief, I agree with Chris Hedges that Harvard feeds plutocracy and evil, and it’s an overrated institution; a situation that explains the perpetuation of wrongs and decline in the moral fabric of America.

Hedges doesn’t turn my stomach, diamond, he’s just a good man who has
wandered anyway from earthly truth and thinks he’s gone Higher and mundane
factuality is no longer his concern.

“poor Hedges…. a good man consumed” with the hunger for truth and justice that characterizes all good men. I know it turns your stomach but that’s your problem.

only a semi-sane person would call Harvard corrupt and having only dead ideas
and then, within 5 minutes, start quoting with great approval the work of one of
the many great scholars who have taught at Harvard.

poor Hedges…. a good man consumed

As recent history informs,most graduates of the “Ivy League” are enemies of the people!

Chris is simply my hero.

Eminent crackdown by LAPD, known for their Rodney King typw brutality.  There
are unidentified military type with weapons, there are also cops on the beat with
tear gas guns, rubber bullet guns. People needed to witness at:
http://occupy.tv/Occupy-Los_Angeles-Live-Stream/

Will be interesting to see what OWS has planned for Friday as Chris mentions in the video. I’m getting the feeling it’s losing some gas since you can only go so far with protesting for protesting’s sake.

But overall great talk by Hedges, good to see people protestig outside of a nest of capitalist toxins like Harvard.

Thank you, Chris! You are consistently showing the way. My hope and prayer is that many more people of your privileged background will stand with this Occupy Movement as time goes by, because, being privileged, you can reach at least some of the other provileged people who do not want to be reached.  Yet they are the very ones who must be reached. Again, I wish you courage, health, persistence and
the deep happiness I know you are feeling this moment.