| “Then, with all due respect, I think that the issue here is with the audience, not the message or the messenger.”
Yeah, I think so. Seems to me, many of the leaders of the radical left are from the just before my generation and grew up in the 60s and 70s and developed some radical/socialist political ideas in their youth. Many of these people have had a hard time letting go of these ideals as they have aged. The positive aspects of their youthful idealism have been proven unworkable and all this is left is the hatred of the “establishment.” Chomsky caters to this audience, what is Chomsky against? That is fairly easy to identify, but try to find out exactly what he is for is more difficult.
Chomsky is for lightweights who want their hatreds reaffirmed and not questioned. He is glad to profit from this market. |