Da Chump is still alive? I didn’t know that.
From the headline I thought this was going to be an obituary.
Other than that disappointment, it’s turning out to be a nice day.
Have been on the polar opposite side of the spectrum from him for as long as I can remember, but I do respect the man.
If you go check, many of his insights are spot on even if his conclusions and solutions are from a leftist perspective and generally go in an ill advised direction.
Being a bit of a cynic, I also have never really been able to sort out how much of Chomsky is his real world view and how much is preaching a marketable message to a fanatical base that to who book sales has made him a very prominent, famous and wealthy socialist indeed.
At any rate, Chomsky is a free thinker who explicitly invites both his fans and his critics to read what he has to say, do their own research to come to their own independent conclusions and he is more than willing to engage in spirited debate when your conclusions diverge from his.
While I would not say he is totally intellectually honest, he does exhibit a sort of intellectual honor and civility that is sorely lacking in today's violent and un civil Left Wing Cultural Marxist Progressives
While I strongly disagree with the premise, conclusions and social remedies of Chomsky's misguided ( or, for the more cynical, the lucrative niche market Chomsky brand he he has cut out of the intellectual market place and which he markets his followers) world view, I am awed by the thought process and perspectives he uses to come to them .
His insights are brilliant and ironically, very relevant to the place we find ourselves today with our increasingly corrupt and tyrannical government.
Every Freeper owes it to him or herself to do a web search on notable Chomsky quotes and perspectives on government power.
Hillary Clinton loves this puke.
Chomsky certainly faced no "sustained criticism" from the left for "whitewashing the genocide by the communist". If he was criticized by the left at all, it was quiet and with very limited publicity.
Is this puff-piece author otherwise trying to convey the impression the international left disapproved of the genocide in Cambodia (both AKA "community organizing" and "rewriting history")?
Perfect dob for this treasonous piece of garbage.
The evil seem to live longer.
Yes, for a moment there I was thinking this was an obituary. Ah well, patience.
“Recent studies have uncovered that the brain of human neonates displays a typical signature in response to speech sounds even a few hours after birth. This suggests that neuroscience and linguistics converge on the view that, to a large extent, language acquisition arises due to our genetic endowment.”
Why is Language Unique to Humans?
Percept, Decision, Action: Bridging the Gaps: Novartis Foundation Symposium 270
This guy is a chaotic, irrational thinker. For a linguist, he can hardly string together rational, coherent thoughts in writing or speaking.
“Intellectual” - LOL
Nothing but a two-bit street punk.
they just keep going on and on.....
what a gift to be in America and all he has ever done is condemn us....
NET WORTH = $5 million
Meaning he had a net worth greater that 99.25% of the nation's population and 99.95% of the world's population.
Yet he was a bomb throwing Maoist and anarchist.
IOW he was a disciple of Saul Alinsky.
Dang, I thought it was an obituary too.
He is just another over-educated non-producer.
Yeah, he’s smart (though foolish), and has a big vocabulary. So what?
I scored 99%ile in English. A lot of big words to promulgate communistic propaganda does not favorably impress me.
This horrible waste of biomatter is now gone to his deserved reward. But is it a safe space? I think not.
Only the good die young?
95 today