Understanding the role of the Liberal Intelligentsia Under Corporate Totalitarianism
Channel: Jason Zenith
Date: 2019-07-06

Chris Hedges explains to Jimmy Dore the ontological types of creatures that function inside the propaganda system of the U.S. corporate oligarchy. He identifies two basic types. What follows is my description.

Those with a vestigial conscience rationalize to themselves that they're a force for good within an evil, criminal power system. 
Those without any conscience at all are gleeful opportunists with an unlimited ability to spout even the most outrageous propaganda, disinformation, and lies and taking pleasure in their ability to get away with- indeed be rewarded handsomely for- such maliciousness. Their lies and propaganda aids and abets the murder of millions and the oppression and exploitation of hundreds of millions, even billions of people.

They also have the ability to imbue themselves with an overweening sense of self-righteousness, and genuinely believe themselves to be the moral superior of their chosen enemies of the day. (Enemies that were former allies, such as Saddam Hussein of Iraq, or the country of Iran, and/or that will be future "friends" again. They are also not too pure to sully themselves by enlisting the help of enemies for certain political projects, as Iran helped them after 9/11/01, and Syria, to which country they even sent "terrorists" to be tortured. Or of Russia, which joined the U.S. and three of the U.S.' European lackey states in forcing Iran to shut down its various nuclear programs, and which helped the U.S in the early years of its invasion of Afghanistan.)

This clip is from a 3-part interview that someone else helpfully assembled into a single video under the misspelled title "Jimm Dore interviews Chris Hedges Oct 15 Full 3 parts," at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOZ7NSuZp6s