Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)

Re:Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995) by gojomo on Saturday May 09, 2009 @05:48PM (#601483)

They're not alike in their tones or most famous aspects -- but their appeal to their ardent fans is similar. "Here's truth that the [corporate|liberal] media contrives to obscure." Each offers a mostly self-consistent (but in other ways bizarro) world to make their audiences feel among the enlightened minority.

I happen to think both sometimes make useful and thought-provoking points, though followup conversations about them are prone to derailment into all sorts of superficial reactions and over-rehearsed ideological set-pieces.

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Re:Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995) by berntb on Saturday May 09, 2009 @06:59PM (#601546)

I agree with "both sometimes make useful and thought-provoking points".

The problem is that these people create true believers. The world could really use sane alternate viewpoints -- and we mainly get lots of conspiracy theorists unable to change viewpoints.

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Re:Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995) by MaysonL on Saturday May 09, 2009 @09:15PM (#601695)

I would be interested in a citation for this observation as far as Coulter goes.

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Re:Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995) by berntb on Sunday May 10, 2009 @09:59AM (#602110)

I am European, so the only thing I know about Coulter is that she is some form of right wing crazy; a less formally polite Chomsky... :-)

That is also more than I care to know; the US extreme left/right looks equally insane. I just wish neither was popular here. But I guess you get the good with the bad.

I agreed with a quote as a way of saying that they generate hypotheses that probably aren't correct, but potentially fruitful to work from.

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