Michael Parenti

Why is he so yellow in that scene? Why is that whole scene so yellow? Y'all know what I'm talking.

Lenore, Isaac and Jen, you know what I'm talking about? When Michael Parenti is speaking, the whole thing is yellow-tinted.

In every video I've ever seen of that speech, the whole thing is yellow-tinted.

I don't know why.

There's

a space Michael Parenti arguing somewhere about how all the third planet, the outer rims are not poor.

They're very rich.

They

That is like, they are resource rich.

Yeah.

What alien would space Michael Parenti be? I have to think about this one for a little bit.

I will come up with an answer.

In fact, that's the only thing.

This is what I learned from Michael Parenti.

That's the only thing that matters to them.

If you think your neighbor is your enemy, then citizens fight each other.

You need to make some kind of deal with us.

Is it disorganized? Is it disjointed? Probably, but I mean, again, you know, this is a group of people, a society that was ravaged, right? I like to think of Michael Parenti saying that the continent of Africa isn't underdeveloped, it's overexploited.

Um, you know, and, and, and I think very truly that that's, that is the case.

And it is in spite of all of that exploitation.

I think, you know, I think it was primarily discovering all of the crimes of the United States, specifically with the foreign policy.

I became interested in the crimes of the United States and I guess really it was Noam Chomsky, which is, you know, I'm sort of ashamed to admit that now because of his being exposed in the Epstein files, but I was just watching a lot of Noam Chomsky clips and then started reading a lot of books from either Noam Chomsky or Michael Parenti and You know, when I started my TikTok page, it was really about making music.

And I have this thing where maybe it's just like the artist in me, but whatever I'm learning about, whatever I'm passionate about, I want to make art about it.

So I started making political music and I was calling out, you know, United States foreign policy, mostly an anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism is really where it began for me.

So, so there's an element of, you know, the, the kind of classic like, uh, indoctrination, uh, campaign, which is, you know...

Uh, it's, it's like an example of, um, like to, uh, to, um, invoke Parenti and the, and the way that Pa- Parenti defines con- conspiracy, which is just essentially like t- two individuals colluding together.

Uh, Arnon Milchan bringing, um, Oliver Stone to Israel is kind of like a miniature conspiracy in a way.

Um, and it's, you know, one very microcosmic example of the way in which, like, the super structural realities that undergird, um, the special relationship between the, you know, hegemonic force of, uh, the United States and, and Israel are, um, kind of like bolstered and perpetuated, I guess.

And, and, uh, d- different interpretations, right? Like, there's a lot of communist romantics that say that while...

Like, there was this clip going around from Michael Parenti, uh, RIP Michael Parenti, where he talks about how Yugoslavia was subverted by foreign capital, how they, like Tito strategically let in foreign capital, and that sort of was the poison that slowly seeped its way into the system.

Now, there's rival interpretations whether even just the death of Tito being such a huge loss and whether they were able to maintain that union and sort of negate the ethnic factionalism.

And there's a lot of, like ethnic nationalists in Eastern Europe that are like, "Well, the problem was all the Serbians," right? Like, it was all the Serbians' fault.