New Year's Resolutions

 

It will not shorten the age of exploitation

 

Serious question: should grandfathers allow their grandchildren to win ?

 

American bombs Nigeria, how should Obama be remembered

 

IMF threatens Botswana over its diamonds, Dave Chappelle , Venezuela, Palestine , Traore v Tinubu

 

I can't imagine a world without Chomsky

There is so much abuse of Noam Chomsky online that it is disorienting , demonstrating how toxic and stupid social media can be. Without thinking , folks are quick to discredit Chomsky in attempts to look self righteous. 

What's the point of it if a great intellectual like Chomsky, apparently the most quoted intellectual, can be discredited in a mere few seconds?  

Stupidity is singularly a human quality. There is no stupidity in nature, in the laws of physics, the universe. Yes, we have unexplained diseases, deformities, events but soon science will crack them and even if they don't crack we know that it not stupidity that launches earthquakes, makes accidents,  or unexplained phenomenon. We have to accept suffering in life , much of it caused by humans but some because of randomness of it. 

To be human is to err yes but is to be human also to be colossally stupid? 

I know I have tendencies to be self righteous, to want to be right, to learn and understanding something to only throw it in people's faces and demonstrate rage as an intellectual badge, that my heart and mind are in the right sync by calling out injustice but this goes to show that self righteous is as stupid as fuck. It's so problematic if it can dismiss a towering intellectual like Noam Chomsky.

And, let's face it, none of us can match Noam Chomsky's humility, total lack of self grandeur, and sheer dedication to the truth and, to illuminate it. 

I can't imagine a world without Chomsky, he's been part of my political consciousness since I went to university in 1998. He's everywhere if you are looking to understand why Americans are so destructive and what's behind their policies. He's like a mountain, a giant tree. 

If he were a holy figure, cities would have been burned by now, so there's that. 

Meanwhile, you have to read What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us by Greg Grandin in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-emails/. 

And, there is more garbage against him here, none of it which makes any sense. The effect is to divide critique of imperialism, to split a unified critique of American /Western policies. That opposing Israel can't be OK if you can't oppose Russia. And, that he didn't talk about Bosnia. These are such lame points that they can't be strung together. Who has read and consumed all his work, all his lectures and, all his interviews? This is reactionary garbage which merely exposes the writers of these posts are idiots. 

Trying to discredit the biggest intellectual is like trying to break a mountain with a toothpick. 

There is no evidence that Chomsky was a pedophile , a horrible person for associating with Epstein. Chomsky remains of the most monumental figures in exposing American atrocities and is a fierce critic of Israel.

That's me

 

Noam Chomsky remains a giant public intellectual despite the stupid idiotic attempts to discredit him

I don't believe that Noam Chomsky is part of any network of pedophiles or honey pot targets linked to Jeffrey Epstein. 

Can anyone tell us what the "many long and often in-depth discussions" between Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein were about?  What were these topics? Global finance? Jeffrey Epstein wasn't really a banker or investor. 

It's become clear that he was simply an Israeli agent. 

What insights or first hand information did Epstein give to Chomsky that would be useful or informative to the dissident academic critic of American foreign policy? 

Twitter/X is full of abuse of Chomsky and I can't get on the same bandwagon. I don't think there is anything conclusive, not even remotely conclusive. 

Noam Chomsky is too important, too epic, too monumental of a public intellectual and, the Epstein so-called links seems to be a strange way to dismantle /discredit anti imperialist thought, canon, thinkers, intellectuals. 

Whoever is choosing to condemn Noam Chomsky one of the most important public intellectuals and fierce critic of American foreign policy is exposing themselves. I think there are i) idiots on the Left ii) those trying to discredit critics of American Foreign Policy. 

See some of the stuff on X: