Posted on 09/26/2001 5:26:19 AM PDT by constitoot
The sick mind of Noam Chomsky
"The most important intellectual alive" is a pathological ayatollah of anti-American hate -- and the leader of the treacherous fifth-column Left.
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By David Horowitz
Sept. 26, 2001 | Without question, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation's grave crisis -- the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America's right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever young people manifest an otherwise incomprehensible rage against their country, the inspirer of their loathing and the instructor of their hate is most likely this man.
There are many who ask how it is possible that our most privileged and educated youth should come to despise their own nation -- a free, open, democratic society -- and to do so with such ferocious passion. They ask how it is possible for American youth to even consider lending comfort and aid to the Osama bin Ladens and the Saddam Husseins (and the Communists before them). A full answer would involve a search of the deep structures of the human psyche, and its irrepressible longings for a redemptive illusion. But the short answer is to be found in the speeches and writings of an embittered academic and his intellectual supporters.
For 40 years Noam Chomsky has turned out book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet and speech after speech with one message, and one message alone: America is the Great Satan; it is the fount of evil in the world. In Chomsky's demented universe, America is responsible not only for its own bad deeds, but for the bad deeds of others, including those of the terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In this attitude he is the medium for all those who now search the ruins of Manhattan not for the victims and the American dead, but for the "root causes" of the catastrophe that befell them.
i know, i had to look that one up last week;)
Lately I keep hearing about really conservative articles coming from there- maybe they learned where the real market is...
It is fairly easy to put together a list of American misdeeds and mistakes, but the problem is putting things in context. Chomsky is a great admirer of Fidel Castro. Cuba is Chomsky's example of a wonderful government. Chomsky hates the marketplace, capitalism, and individualism.
This is his context.
He is also utterly failed as a scientist. His "generative grammer" has led thousands of students and researchers to drill the mother of dry holes. His linguistics has no place for emotional context or connotation -- no surprise in someone who thinks that individuals have no rights.
In the process of promoting his worthless theories he has used the prestige of MIT to destroy opposing theoriticians. He has behaved like an American Lysenko.
It was somewhat heartening to see an MIT designed BattleBot in competition. It lasted about 12 seconds against an amateur design. This is why the marketplace is so great and why academics hate it.
The general replied that he would take the city because he had a "fifth column", composed of his sympathizers within the city, who would aid the four columns of infantry in overcoming the city's defenses.
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