> We didn't exactly live in in a totalitarian regime Ironically that is something that people allude to with regards to Chomsky (ironic because of his anarchis

> We didn't exactly live in in a totalitarian regime Ironically that is something that people allude to with regards to Chomsky (ironic because of his anarchist political beliefs); cf. the book the Linguistics Wars. The bottom line is that his theories were very dominant, not because of overwhelming empirical support, but because of his authority.