Noam Chomsky
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- Baskerville
Radical left wing polemicist or highly intelligent linguist, a bit of both or should he just shut up?
- soda0
have you listened to anything he has said?
- winter0
both?
all lefties are polemicists and all linguists must be intelligent.
- rasko40
he's only radically left wing if you are radically right wing, the guy makes sense and that's that. I'd rather you shut up than he.
- vespa0
genius. haven't read all of his works meself but just owning them would make me feel clever. must see him speak while it's still possible. how old is he now?
- Baskerville0
hey, I'm left wing but he comes out with a hell of a lot of crap. I respect his wriitings on linguistics, but he seems to have written twice as many books on politics as he has on linguistics, which is what he is a professor of at MIT, I find language more interesting than biased political ramblings
- Baskerville0
I really like Steven Pinker. His book 'the language instinct' cites Chomsky a lot. I think an understanding of language is really important for design, especially typography.
- moth0
biased political ramblings
Baskerville
(Dec 13 04, 06:24)That would be opinion then - nothing for you to get upset about.
- toastie0
his "political ramblings" are a continuous and educated critique of the american foreign policy (among a multitude of other things) that is all but rare in this country. There are always Michael Moores demagogues that shake an angry fist, but have trouble understanding how the country really works, Mr. Chomsky has provided plenty of insight into many an administration and, yes, what he says are mostly facts, and are only biased if you think that truth is a liberal invention.
- soda0
what is this crap you speak of?
- soda0
well said toastie...
- Baskerville0
true true moth!
- konspiracy0
left wing or right wing
- the world is still gonna be a f*ct up place!ALL parties are interested in one thing - MONEY.
If he was interested in spreading his word and not making money then he wouldnt charge for his books or lectures surely ;)
il start voting when i see something or someone WORTH voting for.
In the UK we've got a bunch of fannies who call themselves Labour and a bunch that call themselves Conservative then theres a shower of others inbetween too.
All are old farts.
All are out of touch with REAL society.And most of the time we get the impression that they spend more time argueing with each other to ever get anything solved.
The biggest joke of all is the amount of $$$ spent during the US Election "nonsense".
That money truly COULD have been used for better purposes.sorry about the rant.
THATS why im not interested in politics hahah. hate em all! lol
- Baskerville0
woohoo! It's working, I have to admit I was a tad bored at work and decided to try and start a little angry debate. I should have known better than to think that anyone here at NT would be anti chomsky.
Interesting how no one talks so highly of the political writings of some of the more highly regarded writers
- lilbabyarm0
Noam Chomsky is just the honest truth. His genius is that he explains everything in a calm tone using simple common mans language.
some foolish person said he should give his books away. if he did that, he would not be able to support himself now would he? Then what... he wouldn't be able to write or make time for speeches. just shwos you how short sighted people are t say something like that. lol.
if it wasn't for chomsky I would be alot farther away from understanding the truth.
- lilbabyarm0
who are these "mmore highly regarded writers"? LOL. In whose opinion are they more highly regarded? LOL...
- vespa0
taht's because you're smarter than us and unlike you we have no idea who is highly regarded
- Baskerville0
That's quite enough of your smug sarcasm thanks vespa :P
Anyway, my client's just sent me through the next chapter of the book I'm working on so I can get on with my layout now.
But keep up the chatter so I can read it when I'm done.
- soda0
nicely put vespa
- soda0
oh dear.
what a dick.
- toastie0
he must be talking about Sean Hannity. Now there's a true thinker!