What Are the Principles That Should Guide Life?

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There's no halgarithm for those things. You have to think it through, reflect and challenge your own beliefs. There are some general guide lines, but most of the work is in sympathetic understanding. Do we want to understand where our wealth comes from? The most hideous system of slavery in human history? Member cotton was the oil of the nineteenth century. Take a look atthe wealth of blacks and whites take a look at the conditions in which they live. All of that is the legacy of a hideous system of oppression. How do you feel about the role of neutral principles that, historically, i haven't been mutually applied? That's up to each of us to decide.

Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has for many decades been one of the most prominent critics of U.S. foreign policy.

In this week’s conversation, Noam Chomsky and Yascha Mounk discuss the theory of universal grammar, whether identity politics can be left-wing, and how the world should treat an ascendant China.

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