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I really wonder what Vidal would be saying today. I guess it would probably be something similar to Noam Chomsky, who is voting Democrat this year because the
by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago
I really wonder what Vidal would be saying today.
I guess it would probably be something similar to Noam Chomsky, who is voting Democrat this year because the policy differences are so stark.
https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for
- justanotheranon 6y agoChomsky denied the genocide of Pol Pot and defended the Khmer Rouge to score points against CIA and Western Imperialism. start here on page 19 of Chomsky's book he wrote in 1979. https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime-cambodia https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime... Chomsky was dead wrong about his heirarchy of languages and he set back computing by 50 years. He has also been wrong about geopolitics, since he ends up supporting the very Western Imperialism that he rails against.
- shadowfox 6y ago> he set back computing by 50 years No opinion on Chomsky's politics. But that quote definitely needs some substantiation. Personally, I don't see how anyone, has managed to set back computing by 50 years.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoThey haven't, it's a clear exaggeration, and lacks any substance at all.
- ncmncm 6y agoWhich is not to say he was right about human language acquisition. (He wasn't.) But the three grammar classes were correct, and are still in use. They were later found to match work done 2500 years ago, in India. Being wrong in science, particularly biology, is not a crime, nor, usually, even a shame.