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Chomsky has more citations to his peer-reviewed work, than your whole former department or maybe university. I don’t agree with him on numerous topics, but tha

• justicezyx 6y ago
  This is not a critic. This is a complaint that that dominance sucked up a lot of mental freedom and dareness to break out established regime. That's not even complaint to most people who are doing professional research, i.e., modern professional research is just like any other industrialized profession, it requires profit. Of course, with that comes conscious or unconscious desire to follow the lead. That inevitably manifests into low esteem to some prominent figure, but when you look closely, that low esteem is nothing but a sentiment towards the lack of resources; you almost never see any well regarded openly criticize people without different views, because intellectual ideas being different is just the inherent situation of any academic research, everyone knows that, otherwise one would not actually want to be in that profession in the first place.