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> If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing
by howaboutnope 5y ago
> If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If you've resisted the temptation to tell the teacher, "You're an asshole," which maybe he or she is, and if you don't say, "That's idiotic," when you get a stupid assignment, you will gradually pass through the required filters. You will end up at a good college and eventually with a good job.
-- Noam Chomsky
- brodouevencode 5y agoOff topic, but slowly realizing Noam is just a contrarian. Happen to agree with him on this one though.
- TimTheTinker 5y agoPeople who courageously speak what they believe to be true despite the personal costs involved are essential to the preservation and advancement society - where would we be today without them?
- howaboutnope 5y agoThat's hardly doing him justice.. https://www.salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/ https://www.salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/ Call it a fluff piece, sure, there certainly isn't even an attempt of criticism in it, but it still matches all I ever witnessed from him.