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Noam Chomsky on 1968 - It was the beginning of it all
newstatesmen.com ^ | May 10th, 2008 | Noam Chomsky

Posted on 05/10/2008 11:51:37 AM PDT by The_Republican

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1 posted on 05/10/2008 11:51:38 AM PDT by The_Republican
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To: The_Republican

Remember, Obama will accept his party’s nomination on August 28, exactly 40 years after the night of “the whole world is watching.” The score that night, Chicago Cops 165, Hippies 0.


2 posted on 05/10/2008 11:55:12 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: The_Republican
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.

1968. The dawnig of the Age of Ex-Lax.

3 posted on 05/10/2008 11:57:26 AM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: The_Republican

Sure, pick any year. Pick 1968. But, history began way before then.


4 posted on 05/10/2008 12:00:14 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's still unclear what impact global warming will have on vertical wind shear)
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To: The_Republican

Re-Create ‘68!

Thank you, Commander Limbaugh, for your valiant and successful execution of Operation Chaos!


5 posted on 05/10/2008 12:01:19 PM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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The left's fascination with 1968 is becoming increasingly tiresome.

Hey Chomsky!!! No-one cares about 1968 anymore (at least no-one off-campus). In case you are still to stoned to notice, 40 years have slipped by.

The left is stuck in the past, and like when their worn-out copy of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida got stuck back then, they were either too lazy, too stoned, or too preoccupied with disrupting society to get off of their asses and move the needle to a new track. All that LSD has affected their ability to mark the passage of time.

Chomsky was marginal in '68, and is irrelevant now.

6 posted on 05/10/2008 12:09:43 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 Million Fooled Daily!)
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Amazing that this man sees the very thing that will destroy democracy as it’s savior.


7 posted on 05/10/2008 12:13:53 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Riots in the street and terrorist bombings = democracy.


8 posted on 05/10/2008 12:20:27 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: uglybiker
1968. The dawning of the Age of Ex-Lax.

LOL! Great line!

9 posted on 05/10/2008 12:31:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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"Reactionaries" feared too much participation of the masses

The masses? You mean the street and campus radicals and a number of draft opponents? Those who honored "their version of democracy" so long as it scotched true democracy?

With JFK/LBJ liberal shills using the "Fairness Doctrine" as a weapon against those of us (collectively known as the silent majority -- better, the silenced majority) who were aghast at the wall-to-wall MSM admiration of the "brightest generation ever" it's mind-boggling that some university employee would say [reactionaries] tried to repress democracy.

10 posted on 05/10/2008 12:32:54 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968.

Telling that the world famous genius linguist would plop down such a pregnant and central phrase right at the beginning of his piece and then never define it.

11 posted on 05/10/2008 12:35:11 PM PDT by rogue yam
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Chomsky was the child of Russian Jews, grew up during the depression, entered academia and never left. Like many academics, he lives in a world of theory, and never considers the actual possibilities of the ramifications of his theories.

He has a small academic Greek chorus, and appeals to other intellectuals who produce nothing.

The most interesting thing about Chomsky is that he detests a country which took in his family during the Russian persecution, and lives because the military he loathes keeps the Islamists from killing him.

12 posted on 05/10/2008 12:38:26 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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"Riots in the street and terrorist bombings = democracy."

Who said anything about democracy? It's the end of the Republic that has always been the goal and it only took 40 yrs. to accomplish their ends.

13 posted on 05/10/2008 12:40:29 PM PDT by penowa
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There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. Chomsky isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

It boggles the mind how anybody could believe in such tripe and still be proud of their life's work.

14 posted on 05/10/2008 12:42:55 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: rogue yam
There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968.

That's pretty easy to interpret, he's talking about the Third Way, One World Government, World Socialism. Chomsky is talking about everything that Barack Obama stands for.

15 posted on 05/10/2008 12:45:36 PM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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The 60s radicals and the mainstream liberals were the guardians of democracy? Oh, yeah?

"The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment," liberal former CBS News president Fred Friendly documented how the Democratic Party organized campaigns in the 1960s to harass conservative radio personalities with the Fairness Doctrine.

16 posted on 05/10/2008 12:51:17 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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"The left is stuck in the past, and like when their worn-out copy of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida got stuck back then, they were either too lazy, too stoned, or too preoccupied with disrupting society to get off of their asses and move the needle to a new track. All that LSD has affected their ability to mark the passage of time."

The left most certainly is "stuck in the past", but that's the modus operandi.

For all the call for "change" .. Change is exactly what the socialists don't want.

The 'reminiscing' for 1968 is a reminder how 'effective' it was for the advancement of the socialist cause, the destruction of individual liberty and freedom.

The socialists don't want change ... they want this piece of real estate ... The United States of America .. and all she can do as a partner to the north. (Canada) and south (Mexico).

Consider the global power of (this is a guess) 25% of the land and peoples of the planet ... united and moving in unison.

The 'election' of either Marxist this November would be the beginning ... the real beginning of a global government, religion and monetary system.

The Euro just never caught on ... but is in place to facilitate the unification of a monetary structure.

Please don't flame me, Catholics ... I'm not bashing you ... but surely you see the global implication of the Pope and his desire to 'unify' all religions/peoples under ONE system.

And by the report cited here ... the 'institutions' .... school and church .... have been solicited to increase and advance the global mind set/world view.

All things considered ... THIS is the year that will be.

17 posted on 05/10/2008 12:52:05 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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That's pretty easy to interpret, he's talking about the Third Way, One World Government, World Socialism. Chomsky is talking about everything that Barack Obama stands for.

Well, sure, Chomsky is talking about the movement to bring about socialistic world government. My point is that after all these years he still gets away with calling for this without doing so explicitly. And yes, I believe that Bubbles Hussein Ohmygod is a socialistic one-worlder as well.

18 posted on 05/10/2008 12:52:51 PM PDT by rogue yam
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Yeah thanks there Norm for ruining my childhood. I was 7 years old in May of ‘68. You and your Ilk made it ok for our fathers to walk out on their families and made our teen years even more confusing than they needed to be.


19 posted on 05/10/2008 12:53:55 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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In honor of 1968 we should strand all liberals on the moon.


20 posted on 05/10/2008 12:57:30 PM PDT by HectorOne
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