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Originally Posted by AcGold
I said Chomsky will be...
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Sorry, my bad.
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I have a feeling the semantics and meaning of what I said aren't actually being read fully. I said Hitchens was a visionary, which I believe he was, yet no one actually comprehended why or responded logically.
CP, read more.
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Well "visionary" is pretty much an opinion, what's there to say. I don't recall ever reading anything by him that seemed particularly visionary, especially his writings about Islam.
Chomsky is quite excellent, but thousands of years? That's just a crazy prediction to make about anybody, and Chomsky?
Sure, he's a well-recognized linguist, but in thousands of years our language will have changed so much that he will mostly be remembed academically, if that.
As for his other stuff, I never considered "Manufacturing consent" for example to be particularly brilliant or visionary. Here's
a lengthy review (not by me, but I happen to like this review) for those interested.