Last time i heard him in an Interview he was already sluring and taking long times bevore he answered. I think there's metabolic problems and that he hasnt got much time left - sadly. I learned a lot from his lectures.
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is this sarcasm? I read it as "I'm not welcome to parties because I don't toe the line"
No, no sarcasm and that's how I read it too.
So how is it humble? He is just saying he didn't hobnob with known intellectuals - isn't that just a statement of fact?
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#103Sad to lose such an intellectual juggernaut’s voice. The world needs more Chomsky’s of all persuasions, and a culture that will elevate them.
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No, no sarcasm and that's how I read it too.
So how is it humble? He is just saying he didn't hobnob with known intellectuals - isn't that just a statement of fact?
Chomsky has very controversial opinions on some subjects and I suspect that precludes him being invited to many parties.
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Yes, the accusation that he denied the Cambodian genocide is false, and a tactical smear.
Chomsky wrote that "The 'slaughter' by the Khmer Rouge is a Moss-New York Times creation." I'm unsure as to how that would be anything but genocide denial.
He wrote that before the truth was known, while the genocide was ongoing and the only thing we had was scattered reports of atrocities. This was the 70s, we did not exactly have telegram livestream channels from the frontlines. It was a mistake and he recanted those views in the later stages of the regime and afterwards, when the evidence became overwhelming.
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> I’ve never been close to intellectual elite circles That is very humble
is this sarcasm? I read it as "I'm not welcome to parties because I don't toe the line"
I don't understand how you can get any information from that line about the reasons why he wasn't close to them.
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#107Does this change his opinion on Sapir-Whorf? Is that even knowable?
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#108I actually emailed Noam Chomsky asking questions about Manufacturing Consent and actually got a reply. I always thought he was really cool for being so accessible to those who just had honest questions. I really hope he gets well soon.
Same! I emailed him asking for his thoughts on robotics and anarcho-communism and he replied pretty promptly. He said it was an important subject and that he was moving offices (this was his move to Arizona), but I could ask again another time. I never quite had the time to prepare for what I would have asked for, some kind of discussion I could record, which he was doing a lot at the time, but I was very happy just…
What makes you believe this would work? Specifically any form of anarchism? Have you seen groups of people operate for large periods of time successfully like this? Anything I've looked into shows me human nature would make any anarcho-anything system fail due to infighting.
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#109The full obituaries and reflections will come later, but the volume alone of papers, essays, books, articles, and interviews he's generated over his 95 year life is staggering.
The man writes faster than I can realistically read, but I still have a full shelf that I have dipped into over the last 32 years. Linguistics to Gaza, one of my proudest moments was once having some wingnut include me on a public list of enemies alongside Chomsky.
Valentino Rossi and Noam Chomsky together against the world really is a pairing I didn't expect!
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#110Sad news. He was remarkably sharp even in old age.
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