Bedtime wisdom from Noam Chomsky:

[marmar]

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.



The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media.



In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

[patrice]

1. Thanks!

I was immediately interested in Chomsky when I first encountered him in my undergraduate Psychology course work a very long time ago. Back then the topic was the relationship of language to cognition.

:applause:Noam Chomsky:applause:

[marmar]

2. I almost forget sometimes that he's a linguist....

n/t

[Prefer]

3. A cunning one at that...

[patrice]

4. I had a class in which the instructor put us through some basic exercises

in Transformational Grammar. I wasn't very good at it, but thought it definitely interesting. I also happened to have been interested in the Absurdists at about that time (dual major Psych & Lit) and experimenting with Deconstruction in my crit classes. Fun!