Matt Damon gives a good speech...

[TigaHawk]

about Civil Disobedience! Well... and Obedience

It's brilliant!

http://vimeo.com/48834336

[spiritguide]

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Source: Watch on Vimeo



Peace!

[risveglio]

Just a response, not mine, but you can hate me later if you choose. I just think it is good to think, especially when a loaded, violent statement starts off what sounds like a wonderful speech.

It isn’t revolutionary, in fact it is the same tired song sang by tyrants throughout history.

From Caesar to Hitler to Stalin to Mao, despots have seized upon the calls for reform and the economic disparities that create them as justification for more power. Nobel Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek wrote of such attitudes that empower authoritarians in his renowned work: The Road to Serfdom.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ma...#axzz2lXFu1Sea

[ghostrider]

people who commit small crimes are in jail, people who commit HUGE crimes are out of jail , I love that line ... you don't hear many speak about the constitution , the bill of rights , or life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness ...

[Carmody]

Posted by risveglio (here)
Just a response, not mine, but you can hate me later if you choose. I just think it is good to think, especially when a loaded, violent statement starts off what sounds like a wonderful speech.

It isn’t revolutionary, in fact it is the same tired song sang by tyrants throughout history.

From Caesar to Hitler to Stalin to Mao, despots have seized upon the calls for reform and the economic disparities that create them as justification for more power. Nobel Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek wrote of such attitudes that empower authoritarians in his renowned work: The Road to Serfdom.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ma...#axzz2lXFu1Sea

I don't think you quite understand the nature of revolution.

Or, you do ....and are trying to steer it's opening gambits.

[Sidney]

I think given that he has starred in the Bourne movies, I have a hunch that he knows just how the matrix works. He knows much more than what is presented in this video, and I am glad to see him speak up on behalf of everyone.

[risveglio]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by risveglio (here)
Just a response, not mine, but you can hate me later if you choose. I just think it is good to think, especially when a loaded, violent statement starts off what sounds like a wonderful speech.

It isn’t revolutionary, in fact it is the same tired song sang by tyrants throughout history.

From Caesar to Hitler to Stalin to Mao, despots have seized upon the calls for reform and the economic disparities that create them as justification for more power. Nobel Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek wrote of such attitudes that empower authoritarians in his renowned work: The Road to Serfdom.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ma...#axzz2lXFu1Sea

I don't think you quite understand the nature of revolution.

Or, you do ....and are trying to steer it's opening gambits.

Again, not my words, just another perspective. You can put any belief on my intent that you want.

[seleka]

I am going to go insane if I see this again with the speech credited to Damon! I love him and his work, especially what he did for water.org, BUT this is from Howard Zinn. Damon was one of many people that read speeches and things written by other people for a television special that aired a few years ago. I have seen this from 7 different people on FB the last 2 days. Like it is popping everywhere like an ad. It makes me wonder if he is planning on announcing a run for presidency. You can read about the Zinn special here- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156524/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[christian]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by risveglio (here)
Just a response, not mine, but you can hate me later if you choose. I just think it is good to think, especially when a loaded, violent statement starts off what sounds like a wonderful speech.

It isn’t revolutionary, in fact it is the same tired song sang by tyrants throughout history.

From Caesar to Hitler to Stalin to Mao, despots have seized upon the calls for reform and the economic disparities that create them as justification for more power. Nobel Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek wrote of such attitudes that empower authoritarians in his renowned work: The Road to Serfdom.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ma...#axzz2lXFu1Sea

I don't think you quite understand the nature of revolution.

Or, you do ....and are trying to steer it's opening gambits.

I think Hayek is absolutely right. However, this article on The Libertarian Republic responds in a knee-jerk fashion. While Matt Damon does mention the "drastic reallocation of wealth," he doesn't suggest that this should be done through some well-intended Socialist scheme. In fact, Damon explicitly stresses the importance of disobedience to the state, which is exactly Hayek's sentiment.

[Corncrake]

Thanks for posting. Really good to see Howard Zinn getting some coverage outside the world of academe. Enjoy Matt Damon too - ever since watching Good Will Hunting and the now famous 'Why Shouldn't I work for the NSA scene?' https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

[Lifebringer]

Do you have stock in Amazon? Everybody can't afford every book of knowledge that should be known. Sometimes we try to either summarize or drop some way for others to learn. I notice a lot of people are always saying "buy the book," yet know not the financial circumstances of fellow souls on this journey. just saying, knowledge that should be passed on shouldn't be charged, and I'll see If I can find it on Democracy Now site. Sometimes they have his readings and video.

[Wind]

Posted by Corncrake (here)
Thanks for posting. Really good to see Howard Zinn getting some coverage outside the world of academe. Enjoy Matt Damon too - ever since watching Good Will Hunting and the now famous 'Why Shouldn't I work for the NSA scene?' https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

It's a great scene!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VcKVgWYkZa4

[Delight]

The fixit line "that things are wrong" comes from a story that is full of resistance. What if "What is, is what is, what is". Every bit of distortion comes from the mind. The detached point of view shows that we may need to stop thinking in all the oppositional of obedience versus disobedience. Maybe we just need to stop thinking in all the ways we have been thinking.

What if the creation and the Universe is not needing fix even in social organization. If the Universe has an evolving plan for elegance and evolution, who brings THAT in to each life and reverberates out to create a social organization? Must be the individual who is pretending that there is an objective we have to organize in any kind of format presented?

Maybe its more about navigating in our own space, learning how to evidence what we did not create but what is there to claim?

Every aim of our civilized structures pretends there is something ELSE we do not already have. We do not have health, we do not have justice, we do not have peace, we do not have prosperity. in fact these structures pretend that we could not have them without a strict organizing structure to provide them.

Every regime claims to have the fix. Every regime has laws to make "things right" and jails to punish "the identified criminals" and divisions of resources "that divvy out the "scarce", ways and means to implement correction for a broken world, promises to "help" pitiful people. These assumptions are what we operate out from to be disappointed again and again.

Wade Frazier is asking for people to sing in a choir of abundance. In no political structure is there even a nod to the presence of a field of abundance. Civil disobedience that just switches the power is based on a primary mindset of scarcity. That is IMO because we ourselves have the primary mindset.

I like Alan Watts speechings better

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mMRrCYPxD0I

[grannyfranny100]

lifebringer said, "just saying, knowledge that should be passed on shouldn't be charged." Do you get paid for your work? Why shouldn't the author?

[gripreaper]

Posted by karika (here)
I am going to go insane if I see this again

Me too. Why the fascination lately with celebrity as the purveyors of truth? Really? These paid purveyors of the lie are now somehow qualified to bring truth when they extract massive amounts of wealth from commerce to aggrandize themselves in abject decadence and debauchery?

I find the human condition quite fascinating, that we hold up celebrities and athlete's in such high regard and pay them insane amounts of money to peddle the elite propaganda, and then they are coming out using their status to bring us alternative dialectics to create more divisiveness and steer us towards elitist goals?

Pretty amazing.

[cursichella1]

Posted by Sidney (here)
I think given that he has starred in the Bourne movies, I have a hunch that he knows just how the matrix works. He knows much more than what is presented in this video, and I am glad to see him speak up on behalf of everyone.

He also narrated Charles Ferguson's film, Inside Job, so he's got the picture.

[scanner]

Nice speech Matt .


Source: Watch on Vimeo

[bogeyman]

Interesting speech and just as valid today has it was then.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by scanner (here)
Nice speech Matt .

I merged this thread with the other thread discussing the same speech.

[norman]

Bob Dylan said:

" If you steal a little, they throw you in jail, If you steal a lot, they make you a King "