I don't know why I bother getting into this. I did it earlier this week with Cowperson as well. Like I said, I haven't read any of his books and I've only seen him on TV. Frankly, I don't agree with him on a lot of points, on a few I do. His argumentative style is a little botheresome to me as well -- he is constantly on the offensive and he's clever enough to have a veritable library of facts at his disposal. How he interprets all those facts is what the real problem (for some people) is, I guess. It seems you don't think he knows anything about the situation though, so you'll probably dispute that he knows any facts.
Did i say ANYTHING different?? He writes KNOWING he will appeal to the youth of the world...whats the problem with admitting that? And it STILL doesnt make him some sort of political genius. Sorry.
I did say something different. I said he appeals to academics and students. I don't know what percentage of "youth" goes to university, but it's not all that high. How many of them read Chomsky? Not half of them, I guarantee you that. Your point seems to be that he is writing to influence the youth of the world and make money doing so. I would have no problem admitting that, if it were remotely true. It's obviously not. Hilary Duff and Ludacris are influencing the youth of the world, and an 80 year old professor writing and lecturing cryptically on politics and linguism is not about to steal their audience..
Nope i haven't. Never said I did either. So assume whatever you want. Ive seen him on television as well..and yes have read some of his stuff. WHat the hell is your point?
Granted, you never did say you had read all his work, but you did say "the guy hasn't got a political theory in his entire repetoire of writings". That's a pretty bold statement from somebody who has seen him on TV and read some webpages. It's like me saying "Stephen King never writes about scary things in his books. I've never read his books but I saw him on TV". I'm obviously not in the position to say such a thing, am I?
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