[Occupymendocino] Fwd: [Kzyxtalk] Chris Hedges - the real thing

[DANIEL BAKER]

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From: King Collins <King at greenmac.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:58 AM
Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Chris Hedges - the real thing
To: kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
Cc: discussion at lists.mcn.org


Dear family and friends,

I recommend this interview with Chris Hedges (not to be confused with
Christopher Hitchens) which covers the nine books he's written in the last
10  years.

It's on youtube, C-SPAN. It's long (2 hours) but a fine interview. Hope you
like it. Of the current public intellectuals (Chomsky, Nader, Berry and
others) I respect Hedges for the breadth of his experience - twenty years
as a war/foreign correspondent, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School---and
his integrity. He, like Wendell Berry speaks of the beatitudes and
expresses a spiritual view that has taken me beyond the anti-Christian
beliefs of the situaitonists. And Hedges' experience in Sarajevo is a must
hear for those of us who want to understand the role of violence and
nonviolence in real life. He is not a pacifist but a firm believer in the
power of nonviolence.

Hedges is radical to the core. In the end we revolt---not because we have a
plan or because we think we have a chance. We revolt because it is the only
moral alternative: there's no place else to go.

I'll listen to this interview two or three times and follow down on the
individuals (like George Cox and IF Stone) that he mentions, which are the
roots of history and critical theory.  That's the way I accommodate my
limitations as a scholar, by finding the roots and not bothering so much
with the rest.

--king

http://www.c-span.org/video/?303072-1/depth-chris-hedges



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