I love Chomsky and think people have been extremely ungenerous to him but I mainly focus on his work in linguistics rather than regard him as our "greatest public intellectual" or whatever
The show Rake has a character in I think season 1 or 2 that reminds me of Chomsky. He's a crazy linguistics professor who's mad about how the government and corporations keept twising language to remove all meaning.
He decides to infiltrate all these high level government meetings and corporate meetings just so he can take notes on the shitty phrases they use. Then gets put in jail for 10 years even though he didn't publish any secrets, just rambled on about how they don't use language right.
Chomsky is kinda like that. He reached a sort of consciousness through his study of linguistics that led him to form some proper conclusions, but because he doesn't approach those discoveries with class in mind, he ends up falling short.
The episode. It's on Netflix if you want to watch the whole episode, it's pretty good
I love Chomsky and think people have been extremely ungenerous to him but I mainly focus on his work in linguistics rather than regard him as our "greatest public intellectual" or whatever
The show Rake has a character in I think season 1 or 2 that reminds me of Chomsky. He's a crazy linguistics professor who's mad about how the government and corporations keept twising language to remove all meaning.
He decides to infiltrate all these high level government meetings and corporate meetings just so he can take notes on the shitty phrases they use. Then gets put in jail for 10 years even though he didn't publish any secrets, just rambled on about how they don't use language right.
Chomsky is kinda like that. He reached a sort of consciousness through his study of linguistics that led him to form some proper conclusions, but because he doesn't approach those discoveries with class in mind, he ends up falling short.
The episode. It's on Netflix if you want to watch the whole episode, it's pretty good