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Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'

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Re: Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'

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Post by cbanek »

graphe wrote: post #18
cbanek wrote: post #11

I 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.

When did you ask him? I hope it was recently.

September 2022

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Post by woodruffw »

zdw wrote: post #20
defrost wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comment in question was edited. The original comment was simply ב"ה or בס״ד https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besiyata_Dishmaya

Totally unrelated to the original topic, but looking at the linked article, is the name of the store "B&H Photo" a reference not only to the initials of the founders names but also tangentially to this concept?

That's funny, I'd never made that connection before. The B&H owners are Szatmars (who tend to be pretty stringent in their practices), so I don't think they'd make this exact reference -- ה substitutes for HaShem which (very) roughly equates to taking god's name in vain.

(They'd maybe write the בס״ד variant, so "B&D".)

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Post by cbanek »

nomilk wrote: post #16
cbanek wrote: post #11

I 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.

Documentary of the same title for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

I honestly think the documentary is shorter and better than the book, thanks for the link.

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Post by llmblockchain »

cbanek wrote: post #11

I 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.

I emailed him in ~2012 and got a response as well. Keep in mind, I was not a student at his university and I emailed him out of the blue. Incredible guy!

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Post by benbreen »

cbanek wrote: post #11

I 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 about whether he'd ever met Margaret Mead, John C. Lilly, or Gregory Bateson in the 1960s while researching my book. I got this reply within hours:

"Afraid I never met any of those you mention, though I’ve followed their work for many years.

I’ve never been close to intellectual elite circles, including people I very much admire."

The time stamp for my email was Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019 at 2:19 PM. It was answered by chomsky@mit.edu at Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019 at 9:29 PM. Pretty remarkable.

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Post by turndown »

Intellectual giant whose shadow will be cast deep into the future. I don't need to review any of his work wrt to CS or linguistics to tell you that his legacy will be massive.

I think Manufacturing Consent should go down as one of the most important books ever written in our culture. He was right about much, but wrong about much also.

His beliefs on Cambodia strain credulity and I still have trouble separating that Chomsky, so bent on drawing an equivalence(however valid) between American actions and the Khmer Rouge that he missed the point entirely, and Chomsky the visionary philosopher who I admire deeply.

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