“I think the idea that you’re supposed to have special qualifications to talk about world affairs is just another scam….it’s just another technique for making the population feel that they don’t know anything, and they’d better just stay out of it and let us smart guys run it. He openly disparages the use of unnecessarily complex words and ideas (like “praxis”), and explains how and why the university system (tied to corporations and governments) breeds elitist intellectualism: (Page numbers are from the 2002 paperback edition.) The ideas here are abridged without all the evidence - you have to read the full 400-paged book for that and/or the footnotes.ġ. Below are ten common threads in his work taken from Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky. He’s written many books, and many others were compiled from his speeches. Most importantly, he gives us a framework of the world necessary to understand in order to help us fight the good fight. But he’s also very down to earth, which makes him all the easier to follow.
I have to look up the word “hegemony” every time someone uses it. He has a wealth of knowledge and an astute analysis of events pretty much from the beginning of time to now all in his head and instantaneously available to him. He’s a different person than you or me - well, than me for sure.
He’s brilliant, yet far less dense and inaccessible as some people think.
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