September 11: Noam Chomsky

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so any of you read it? what did you think?

― di, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey Di what are you talking about? Chomskys written heaps of stuff on September 11. Do you have a link?

― hamish, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

did you mean this?

― hamish, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i meant the book, which is a collection of interviews with him concerning sept 11.

― di, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thank you for the link, though!

― di, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven't seen it but i've read most of the interviews. Don't really know what to say about them - kind of predictable stuff from Chomsky - nothing to gripe about in them. Where did you find the book? Is it in any Dunedin libraries?

― hamish, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dude. far out. all hail di!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they're selling it in all the big bookstores, what is heartening to see is that it has completely sold out. i bought a copy for my dad for xmas and ending up reading it on xmas day.

i find chomsky very useful because i mostly don't bother to find out about whats going on in the world cos i don't know of any news sources i can trust (and also a touch of laziness). so yeah, i enjoyed the book and found it quite enlightening.

why is that man so freakin sensible? (not that i mind or anything)

― di, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chomsky is a good watchdog of American foreign policy, but don't be too quick to accept his views as the gospel truth. I find his presentation just as slanted as I do the popular media, only in a different direction.

― bnw, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes well i don't agree with everything he says.

― di, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there were aspects of the book which i didn't fail to question, as they seemed a tad manipulative, but thats the case with any pov on anything.

― di, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Noam Chomesky owes me a good rimjob for anything he had done outside the relm of lingustics and psycology. I mean my ass needs a talented tounge as his, as his is always wagging so he really should shut the fuck up and get to licking my ass before trying to pretend he is a sociologist and not an ubergeek/80s leftover shrink.

Can you tell I dont like shrinks generally?

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since when is Chomsky a shrink?

― N., Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chomsky considers linguistics to be a branch of psychology. I didn't know he ever was a shrink but then i don't understand what shrinks in Aerica are.

why is that man so freakin sensible?

i guess he has to make up for so many other modern-day anarchists.

― hamish, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sounds like someone is cashing in, kaching kaching

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah and good for him too. If he can rehash a whole heap of stuff from previous books to get his ideas across to a much larger audience then i'm right behind him. its the bane of anti-capitalists to have a bunch of losers accuse you of selling out every time money changes hands. and i'm sure Chomsky will put the money to better use than most political analysts.

― hamish, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ouch, that hurt. dont worry, I am jealous because I wanted to sell out but no-one was buying. i am sick of listening to bullshit about 11 september terrorist attacks and I sure as hell dont want to read another book (even if rehashed ideas from past) that is devoted to it. Some people it may attract, it just irritates me. I'd rather have a look at thee old stuff I think; rather than start reading NC on account of some pyrotechnics

― Menelaus Darcy, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

psychiatry ≠ psychology

― N., Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No he is a psychologist, and language can come under the umbrella of psychology, as psychology is defined as the study of human behaviour. Basically that means that most things come under that umbrella if we want them too.

― ciori, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chomsky is too rationalist as a linguist, and similarly too rationalist as a political analyist. He thinks because systems DO something, that they are DESIGNED or at least EVOLVE to do that think very well. Hence, if they do not do something well, then all that is needed is more RATIONALITY.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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