In celebration of Noam Chomsky day

Who is Noam Chomsky? 

Linguist, political analyst, and the eighth most cited person in academic papers. 

He's a linguist and political theorist, Slacker. His book The Chomsky Reader is considered a classic.

Brilliant man.

Edit: Aiq beat me to it. There's a great Chomsky doc on Netflix called Requiem For The American Dream that's a good watch. Definitely recommended​.

an old jewish dude that's smaht.

you should encourage your pool comrades to have a reading party or a movie night.

They're all chasing them dollars. They want houses, cars and bling and shit. 

Real estate and Michelin stars. 

michelin tires?

>>>St. Mark got to give it up to you. You killed it on my "Baby Boomers" thread. Job well done sir!

Thanks man. That was a fun thead.

What do u know about Chomsky without google?

i have michellan tires

> What do u know about Chomsky without google?

Take a class in Linguistics. Watch shows like Democracy Now!

Me too, Turtle. 

They make a good tire.

>>Who is Noam Chomsky? 

Every ist that ever was

That line was in the Movie Captain Fantastic. I loved that movie

you can see it on the internet or get a book or video for free from y our local public library while they still exist...

Is this the guy that talks about how no one talks about socialism for the rich?

There should be a comic book with all the best American intellectuals as super heroes and villains fighting it out for the safety of the people and the community.  

Starting group of Democrats (There for the People): Noam Chomsky​, C. Wright Mills, and Howard Zinn. 

Starting group of Republicans (American Monarchists): William Buckley, Leo Strauss, and Roger Kimball. 

Moderator and general wild card: Hunter S. Thompson. 

They can have their battles, and other intellectuals can appear in each new issue. 

I'd read that. 

Sounds like an R. Crumb project waiting to happen, Floops. I'd read it too.

I'm down, as long as there is plenty of Nazi punching.

Mr. Chomsky, on the other hand, reading “The Kingdom of Speech,” may lose a bit of sleep. Mr. Wolfe chronicles the arguments against two of that linguist’s central theories — the notion that humans are born with an unseen language organ in the brain, and the complicated structural concept of recursion in language — and declares Mr. Chomsky to be bankrupt in nearly every regard, a pretentious man whose ideas set linguistic study back for decades. He narrates disputations of Mr. Chomsky’s work as if they were prizefights: “OOOF! — right into the solar plexus!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/books/tom-wolfes-kingdom-of-speech-ta...

There's a good chance that he's not even right about his own area of expertise.

“If you are not having a fight with somebody,” Tom Wolfe told The Guardian in 2004, “then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning.” -  from the article Thom cited above.

Intellectual cage match between Wolfe and Chomsky?

Wolfe doesn't answer the bell.

Mr. Wolfe’s prose here is mostly sure-footed, but there are moments when he seems on the verge of losing it, of falling into fragments of Morse-code nonsense that will put older readers in mind of the insane ellipses-filled columns Larry King once filed for USA Today.

Here is Mr. Wolfe, for example, on the work of eight evolutionists he wishes to mock: “I surfed and Safaried and finally moused upon the only academic I could find who disagreed with the eight failures, a chemist at Rice University … Rice … Rice used to have a big-time football team … the Rice Owls … wonder how they’re doing now? I moused around on the Rice site some more, and uh-oh … not so great last season, the Owls … football … and I surfed to football concussions … exactly as I thought!” The call-waiting system in his cranium, here and elsewhere, has gone haywire.

“The Kingdom of Speech” is meant to be a provocation rather than a dissertation. The sound it makes is that of a lively mind having a very good time, and enjoying the scent of its own cold-brewed napalm in the morning. 

Thom, man, it's just Wolfe's ideas, which are inconclusive. 

not being a linguist or in interested in such matters, i cannot directly speak to his paid area of expertise. however, i assume one does not get to be a professor at MIT very easily.

however i find it baffling that anyone with a modicum of intelligence cannot find his analysis to be dead spot on. you really cannot refute it, but flail away....

Chomsky's big ideas, that humans have a language acquisition device that provides us with the ability to acquire the rules of grammar and then produce language and that these things are hard-wired in our brains, revolutionized the field of linguistics. Under this theory, grammar should not be seen as a system designed by humans, but rather as a naturally occurring system whose rules we have observed.

We acquire language through observation and produce language through mimesis. We observe things, come to understand their meaning and then begin to replicate the representations we have observed. Monkey see, monkey do, in other words.

Guys. Noam Chomsky is a liberal. 

Don't you understand that Thom finds that appalling? 

Captain Fantastic was a great movie IMHO

Tom Wolfe is way past the sell by date.

I am sorry I can't recall which book but Chomsky's analysis of the Japanese militarization in the early twentieth century and subsequent war policy changed my thinking about WWII. 

>>Who is Noam Chomsky? 

Admittedly a very intelligent man, articulate and possessing opinions that I tend to vehemently disagree with and definitely not someone I would celebrate.

I was on board with that movie until the end. Made absolutely no sense, like the writers had no idea how to finish something that should have never been made. All of the character development meant absolutely nothing because of the way they chose to end it. Why even bother introducing some of those plot points if the movie is going to end right where it started? As soon as they all popped out of the floor boards of the bus I told that movie to fuck off. 

https://newrepublic.com/article/140710/donald-trump-bizarro-noam-chomsky

watching Captain Fantastic right now, oddly enough