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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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30 Nov 2003 04:57:47 AM |
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OT: Noam Chomsky |
Question time
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1094708,00.html
He's 'The Elvis Of Academia' and 'The Devil's Accountant'. A
relentless thorn in America's side, Noam Chomsky has spent 50 years
bringing his country's elite to account. Here, he talks to Tim Adams
about genocide and genitalia
Sunday November 30, 2003
The Observer
On the railings outside my local train station at Harringay, in north
London, someone has carefully placed a series of small white stickers.
The stickers, all at eye level, are designed, I suppose, to be the
first thing you see on the way to work and the last thing you see on
your way home. They are all neatly typed with two words: READ CHOMSKY.
Most mornings I find myself wondering for an instant whether the words
are an imperative ('If you do nothing else today...'), or a swaggering
boast (along the lines of some of the station's other typical
graffiti: 'Shagged Karen', say).
Anyone who has read Noam Chomsky will know that both interpretations
are justified. His writings, in linguistics (a discipline which he
effectively invented) and on the hypocrisy and warmongering of America
(and its principal ally) are among the few essential documents of our
times. They are also not designed for the intellectually
faint-hearted. As the most unforgiving critic of the Washington-run
world order, Chomsky is often caricatured as supplying more reality,
and more guilt, than many of us care to handle. His books have the
manner and certainty of gospels, and they work by accretion,
stockpiling the remorseless fact of distant atrocity done in each of
our names. They seem to demand not so much readers as disciples,
(prominent among whom you would count John Pilger and Harold Pinter,
Michael Moore and Naomi Klein). To judge by sales figures (his little
pamphlet on 11 September has sold upwards of half a million copies)
the faithful are an ever-growing number.
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