Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Page #3

Synopsis: This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.
Production: New Video Group
  4 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
1992
167 min
1,749 Views


and experience wrote on them, we would be

very impoverished creatures indeed,

so the obvious hypothesis is that our language

is the result of the unfolding

of a genetically determined programme.

Well, plainly there are different languages.

In fact, the apparent variation of languages

is quite superficial.

It's certain - as certain as anything else is -

that humans are not genetically programmed

to learn one or another language.

So, you bring up a Japanese baby in Boston,

and it'll speak Boston English.

You bring up my child in Japan,

it'll speak Japanese.

And that means that... From that it fol...

from that it simply follows by logic

that the basic structure of the languages

must be essentially the same.

Our task as scientists is to try to determine

exactly what those fundamental principles are

that cause the knowledge of language to unfold

in the manner in which it does

under particular circumstances.

Incidentally,

I think there is no doubt the same must be true

of other aspects of human intelligence,

and systems of understanding

and interpretation,

and moral and aesthetic judgement, and so on.

The implications of these views

have washed over the fields of psychology,

education, sociology, philosophy,

literary criticism, and logic.

In the '50s and '60s

the bridge between your theoretical work

and your political work seems to have been

the attack on behaviourism,

but now behaviourism is no longer an issue,

or so it seems,

so how does this leave the link

between your linguistics and your politics?

Well, I've always regarded the link... I've never...

really perceived much of a link,

to tell you the truth.

Again, I would be very pleased to be able to

discover intellectually convincing connections

between my own anarchist convictions

on the one hand,

and what I think I can demonstrate,

or at least begin to see

about the nature of human intelligence

on the other.

But I simply can't find intellectually satisfying

connections between those two domains.

I can discover some tenuous points of contact.

FOUCAUL:

If it is correct, as I believe it is,

that a fundamental element of human nature

is the need for creative work,

or creative inquiry for...

...for free creation without the...

...arbitrary, limiting effects of coercive

institutions,

then of course it will follow that a decent society

should maximise the possibilities

for this fundamental human characteristic

to be realised.

Now, a federated, decentralised...

...system of free associations incorporating

economic as well as social institutions

would be what I refer to as

anarcho-syndicalism,

and it seems to me that

it is the appropriate form of social organisation

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