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by cunard-n
6243 days ago
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You can listen to podcasts of Chomsky. His live talks help put this quote into context. He speaks often at Universities. Some of the questions he fields are kind of sad, and Chomsky is quite civil to the kids that basically want him to refute his own positions. If, on the other hand, you listen to his debate with Richard Perl, for example, you hear his opponent, clearly a public intellectual and a capable debater, take positions like: "we were right to blockade, bomb and terrorize. It is and was in the national interest." Does this help with perspective?
I think an example like this can be to the point without being or becoming a tautology, though it is close. The kids sometimes don't seem to have benefitted from their embarrassment of riches in the field of education.... |
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Or you could watch the Harvard debate he had with Alan Dershowitz on Israel where he wasn't particularly convincing, or better yet the passage of _The Blank Slate_ where Steven Pinker completely skewers Chomsky's nonsensical position on human nature in its relation to economic systems.