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Noam Chomsky: American Socrates
Open Source with Christopher Lydon
The Scientific Process and the Political Process
In your politics it strikes me we're all looking to you, to locate the endowment that lets us work together for the common good. And the survival even. I mean, we don't understand a lot about human nature, but one of its aspects is mutual aid and solidarity. Other aspects are greed and hatred. Social economic conditions help affect, they don't determine, but they certainly influence which of these aspects of human nature come to predominate. That's an advantage of the US system, and it's built in. There are all kinds of things. If Nevada is suffering from recession, New York pays for it. We don't even pay attention to it. Mississippi gets subsidized
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