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I always got the feeling Chomsky went for "the big picture" so to speak, and ignored the details. At least, that would be consistent between his political and h
by tgv 9mo ago
I always got the feeling Chomsky went for "the big picture" so to speak, and ignored the details. At least, that would be consistent between his political and his linguistic work. In the latter, he built systems that were simply too complex to be representative of the human mind. I can imagine that he saw himself as a kind of continuation of Marx and Hegel, where the system matters, and human life is just a detail.
- u1hcw9nx 9mo agoYou must also have noticed that he never engages his critics honestly. He just dismisses them as "elite propaganda". There has been never part of interesting intellectual debate between him and anyone who has different opinion. He writes to his followers.