Noam Chomsky on The Necessary Pain of Facing Unpleasant Truths
Channel: The Elephant
Date: 2016-03-01

A wide-ranging conversation with renowned public intellectual  Noam Chomsky. Chomsky speaks about his early political activism, the necessity of confronting painful truths about the world around us, and the immense challenges that face humanity today.

“Cynicism is a kind of evasion. If we face the world realistically, there's a lot of unpleasant things. It's not a basis for cynicism, it's the basis for doing more." 

Recorded in 2013
Interviewer: Kevin Caners

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