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1 posted on 02/18/2026 4:40:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
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It is clear that Epstein was a man of the left. He had no principles or conscience.


2 posted on 02/18/2026 4:40:28 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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...the eminent linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky...
3 posted on 02/18/2026 4:54:27 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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Had to study Chomsky to get a Teaching Certificate.

Lot of happy horseshit and convoluted thinking.

May be part of the reason our teachers are often perverts and losers.


4 posted on 02/18/2026 5:00:58 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (We don't need an election - We need an exorcism!)
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And yet the fact that Epstein also had a personally signed copy of Rules For Radicals on his bookshelf remains unmentioned.
6 posted on 02/18/2026 5:30:01 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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Money quote from the article - way down in text that 80% won't read anyway: "The Epstein revelations do not topple Chomsky’s scholarly contributions to linguistics. They do not erase his influence. But they puncture the myth that critique equals virtue."
7 posted on 02/18/2026 5:46:28 AM PST by larrytown (I will not be rage-baited.)
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All else being the same, it must be cool to have a business card that says “Public Intellectual.”


8 posted on 02/18/2026 5:48:23 AM PST by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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Chomsky is, and always has been, a pompous, gas filled, far Leftist POS.

Of course he would have dealings with Epstein.


9 posted on 02/18/2026 6:04:18 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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11 posted on 02/18/2026 6:20:12 AM PST by sauropod
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Chomsky was always the “do as I say, not as I do” type.


13 posted on 02/18/2026 6:40:22 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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they claimed to be gods, because they said there was no God.
“14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.”Psalm 48


14 posted on 02/18/2026 6:41:12 AM PST by sopo
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Chomsky is as evil as Epstein


16 posted on 02/18/2026 7:41:10 AM PST by ckilmer (`61)
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Not Trump, the left doesn’t care.


17 posted on 02/18/2026 7:58:33 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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Title looks like something written as a doctoral dissertation. I believe I’ll pass.


18 posted on 02/18/2026 8:15:51 AM PST by torqemada
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MtnClimber, thanks for posting!

Re:

"one must place Chomsky within the broader intellectual ecosystem that reshaped American academia after the 1960s. While not formally a member of the Frankfurt School, his work converged with its critique of capitalist modernity, mass culture, and liberal-democratic institutions. Thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno helped institutionalize a style of critical theory that viewed Western society as structurally oppressive beneath its democratic veneer."

You could just about summarize this with a quotation from "Return of the Strong Gods" By R.R. Reno: "Unrestrained by the existential threat of commuism, the Western postwar concensus tended toward pure negation, leaving us a utopian dream of politics without transcendence, peace without unity, and justice without virtue."

His general thesis is that "Open Society" advocates used "Therapies of Disenchantment" and "Weakening as Destiny" to deconstruct populism and nationalism, and replace "Truth" with personal meaning, and Transcendence and the Metaphysical with the immanent and a "Small World" personal view.

22 posted on 02/18/2026 10:36:07 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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