anyone here read noam chomsky?

Question

if so, can i get some intelligent opinions? especially concerning the book "manufacturing consent." but anything will do. good or bad.

if you haven't read him please do not bother answering. you will only be demonstrating your ignorance.

Answer 1

I've read it, and my intelligent opinion is no one should. I find it hard to believe that EVERYTHING ever done by the American government had ulterior motives that the enlightened Chomsky could divulge.

Answer 2

Noam Chomsky takes a refreshing look at today's politics and has a global view of things.
The right completely hate him, of course, as they hate anybody that refuses to accept the narrow debating frames which they are attempting to impose on every issue.
Chomsky shows very clearly that the main motivations of government has been to further special interests (mainly corporate) and that the actions of the government around the world show this. At the same time, there is a clear attempt to prevent the public from understanding what is truly going on.

Answer 3

you're shocked? 3/29/05 Washington submit: “college colleges, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean better to the left than even the main conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a sparkling learn says.” -72% of better training instructors are liberal, 15% conservative -50% pointed out themselves as democrat, 11% republican -At elite faculties: 87% are liberal, thirteen% conservative. 5/20/12 L. A. cases: “on the college of California at Berkeley the ratio of Democrats to Republicans even interior the problematic sciences had grown to 10 to a million in 2004, many cases what it became 30 years in the past...” “interior the arts and social sciences the ratios have been 17 to a million and 21 to a million, respectively.”

Answer 4

It's a manual to analyze the media society. Media not only manipulate, nowadays, but also create consent. They build a new model of citizen and construct a new language as well.
The role of thinkers should be to uncover this plot but this is not what happens.
Read it, it's not prophetic but gathers and communicates much information.

Answer 5

Good book, Chomsky has persuasive insights into the way print and electronic journalism tacitly and often willingly further the agendas of the powerful.

Answer 6

When you hear him speak, it almost makes you cry. The clarity, the precision, the plain common sense truth.

Which is exactly why the Right would like to see him drawn and quartered.


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/148254

Answer 7

no, but I've seen a couple interviews on Democracy Now! (check their site the show is awesome).

Watching him speak about the government is extremely convincing and he does a good job of keeping a level head and explaining circumstance, positions, etc.

Answer 8

I'm somewhat familiar with his work. He is fairly sound on everything except economics (he believes, erroneously, that Socialism and freedom are compatible).