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people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
- cma 17y agoAs a guess, by "elementary econ 101 mistakes" do you mean he doesn't adopt the (quite arbitrary) Ayn Rand Axiom System?
- grandalf 17y agoI think Chomsky's most valuable intellectual contribution is his focus on South/Central America and the atrocities that America funds there.
- camccann 17y agoFrom a computer science perspective, I'd at least acknowledge his contributions to the theory of formal languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
- grandalf 17y agoCertainly a valuable contribution, but I suspect someone else would have figured that out fairly soon if he hadn't. On the other hand, nobody else in the US cares about what the US does in South/Central America.
- foldr 17y agoOh please, you're going to deny that A is A?? Looter!!!!
- nazgulnarsil 17y agono, i'm talking about marginal utility and ordinal preference ranking. ?_? not really sure where you pulled the randroid insinuation from?
- grandalf 17y agoActually Chomsky and Rand share a similar view of Crony Capitalism and a corrupt regulatory state.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoand rand was wrong about much as well.
- grandalf 17y agoNot sure what your point is. Everyone is wrong about something.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoright, I don't know much about micro-biology. therefore I don't go spouting off about it. rand (and chompsky) routinely spouted off about things that were out of their domain. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1776 http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1776