08-11-2009, 05:13 PM
Quote:Of the overwhelming evidence which contradicted the official explanation that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman who murdered President John F Kennedy in 1963, Noam Chomsky said:
Quote:"I mean, who knows? And who cares? I mean plenty of people get killed all the time. Why does it matter that one of them happened to be John F Kennedy?"
For the record, I don't believe that Chomsky is a "left-gatekeeper".
Chomsky is far more interested in structures than individuals. It can be argued that his academic linguistic work, including the development of a hypothesis of "universal grammar" shared by all humans, is a logical consequence of this.
He's also an egalitarian: the murder of a child in Denver or Kabul or Bogota matters as much to him as the murder of a President.
Ultimately though, if it's a battle of the Profs, Peter Dale Scott has done more important work in analysing deep political structures than Noam Chomsky.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war