New World Notes - The Myth of Progress, The Necessity of Rebellion (Part 2 of 2)

This week on New World Notes: radio program #357, January 6, 2015, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst excerpts a talk by Chris Hedges.

In a brilliant speech, journalist/essayist/prophet Chris Hedges argues that the class war is real... that the ordinary people are losing... that all of society's institutions have betrayed the people and "sold out" to Established Power... that whatever political and economic justice there has been exists only because ordinary people struggled hard against the elite to create that justice... and that widespread nonviolent rebellion by the people is now essential to prevent disaster.

This week, in Part 2, Hedges focuses on the moral duty to rebel against evil. He discusses with insight the dystopian novels of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell and also Albert Camus' book, The Rebel. And he speaks movingly about Bradley Manning, Vaclev Havel, and his own father.

Part history lesson, part political science, part cultural analysis, and part sermon, Hedges' talk is an intellectual tour-de-force--and also a great listen.

Introduction by K.D., who is responsible for the title used here.

The audio (taken from a videotape recently made available online) was lightly edited for radio by Robin Upton and previously broadcast on his Unwelcome Guests program. Thanks again to Robin. I believe that Hedges delivered the speech in Berkeley, California, in 2011.

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