Bruce Springsteen tells you in his song that too many people born in the U.S.A. are like dogs that have been beat too much until they spend half their lives covering up. White people and the legions of obsequious coloreds in the Americas hate Noam Chomsky because he dares to present himself not as a self-deprecating dog, grateful for American freedoms bestowed on him by some magical, fictional, morally-superior ruling class. Noam Chomsky is unable to live with the American insanity that loves the weekend but hates the people who fought and died for the five-day work week. Noam Chomsky simply remembers what actually happened to your hypothetical Irish great-grandmother as she fought for basic human rights—and Chomsky is articulate enough to tell you about her in a rather tedious, near-monotone voice.

We present in the kinté space a 1998 recording of a Noam Chomsky talk called “Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind.” Enhanced, commercial versions of this presentation are available at Amazon.com in CD and MP3 formats. This talk is filled with explicit references to books that make up a rich short course on the history of the labor movement and labor management in the United States. We have compiled these references in a book list at Amazon.com. When you find yourself whining and complaining about “stupid people,” it is clear to me that you have not heard and internalized the documented information in this Noam Chomsky talk. When you find yourself whining and complaining about yet another racist Hollywood movie or television show, it is clear to me that you have not heard and internalized the documented information in this Noam Chomsky talk. Noam Chomsky presents these “mysteries” of stupidity as byproducts of a deliberate design that was planned since the time of the “Founding Fathers” of the United States and really took off during the 1920s when it was technically possible to shape consciousness on a massive scale through mass media (radio).

The funny part about this is that he presents his case in roughly the first 10 minutes of his talk! This presentation is a powerful “ice breaker” for those of you out there trying to have a “multicultural exchange” because there is no point in discussing issues of “race” with people who are too rabidly dogged to accept this ‘white history’ lesson, an excellent sweeping summary, from Noam Chomsky. Remember that the 1984 Ronald Reagan re-election campaign used Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” without actually listening and reading the lyrics. So don’t waste your time on those who can’t cover the basics because they are too busy “covering up.”