Are You More Right or Less Wrong Professor Chomsky?

Chomsky: I always think of my lifetime as the time when everything went shit. Thatcher and Reagan have succeeded in driving countries that spread over the world, started in the US and Britain, drove them back to the worst of the 1920s. Do you see any grounds for optimism at all? We're supposed to be a consciousness podcast but I'm very much a political animal so I can't resist taking the opportunity. You're actually almost exactly 50 years older than me, Professor Chomsky.