Tom Wolfe fully explained the Chomsky institutionalized radical phenomenon when he observed that Chomsky developed cartesian linguistics because he preferred air conditioned offices on well-manicured campuses over field work in inhospitable regions. https://twitter.com/ProBotWasher/status/1211652582151786497 …
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Replying to @CityBureaucrat
Chomsky is an idealist. All anarchists are - no concept of power/the political, just lofty ideals. It's sweet but kinda useless.
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Replying to @aimeeterese @CityBureaucrat
I reflexively defend Chomsky as a historian because he's one of those guys, like Zizek or David Harvey, that every left grifter finds some doctrinaire bullshit to try and 'get' him on. But yeah I wouldn't accept him as a political or linguistic authority
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