Sounder » Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:40 pm wrote:The framing that the anti-critics propose is that Chomsky’s response to 911 ideation is responsible, given all the variables and whatnot.
That may well be, but my comment was more about the dissonance suppressing tenor (and shallowness) of his comments in that particular video. No my issues with Chomsky have more to do with his primary work in removing emotional markers so as to create more efficient command and control systems. (What he professes and says, and what he does do not seem to match up) That and his role in steering culpability away from Israel in regard to its crimes against the original Semitic Palestinian population. OK, well, those things and a few others; might as well mention his happy to be a fascist if that will ‘cure’ climate change.
Chomsky is a regular consensus making machine.
This seems an odd observation as the use of emotive markers appears (to me) to be central to mass control systems, in galvanising 'opinion' (belief really) as well as inhibiting deconstruction in retrospect.
I do see what you mean though, but more obvious in Hitchens' manner, he exuded a level of detachment that I often saw as overplayed.
(I hope someone didn't notice that you sneaked the f-word in there)