Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Noam Chomsky: Coronavirus — what is at stake? | DiEM25 TV" video.

"Trump is not ideologically driven in the same way as the Fascists". Noam, thank you for clarifying your view of Trump's base as being not the same as Fascism. Noam, you should be able to differentiate between your emotional perception and the empirical evidence of Trump's actions. Noam doubts humans have a future, I get that, but don't agree. Noam, you lived thru the pandemic of Polio and the creation of a vaccine that eradicated it worldwide. Capitalism, the rich countries, America, produced that vaccine. Hitler scared you as a little boy, you have not grown beyond that fear, and your great intellect is still driven by that scared little boy.
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Noam, while the Salk vaccine was a breakthrough, it was Dr. Albert Sabin who produced the oral vaccine I took in the late 1950's, and was the vaccine that eradicated Polio worldwide, not the Salk vaccine. Sabin refused to patent his vaccine, waiving every commercial exploitation by pharmaceutical industries, so that the low price would guarantee a more extensive spread of the treatment. Sabin was a supporter of Israel, and perhaps why Noam ignores his contribution.
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BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: Future Shock is a 1970 book by the futurist Alvin Toffler,in which the author defines the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. The shortest definition for the term in the book is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time". HIS PREDICTIONS DID NOT HAPPEN.
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