by MacCruiskeen » Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:06 am
I have to add something to what I wrote upthread.
In what I said about "Eugene's" horrible little screed there's not one word that I would want to alter, nor has my assessment of Chomsky's woefully sad performance changed in the slightest. But. JackRiddler is absolutely right about the blowhard in the audience.
Imagine it: You have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to present a question in public to a very old and deservedly highly respected man. You've had loads of time to prepare that one question. There's been no reason for you not to have honed that question to perfection and then written it down word-for-word in case you get nervous when your big moment comes. So... what do you do? [Cue drumroll] You arise in front of the camera and the great scholar and the hundreds-strong audience, and, in a steady, stentorian, manly, self-confident voice, you make a complete arse of yourself by taking an eternity to get to the fucking point and even then you don't even manage to make the fucking point absolutely clear. Your "question" is not really a question at all, but a boring, rambling, self-important speech that's just begging to be interrupted because it's slow torture and an imposition on everyone's time and patience. (How many more seconds does Noam Chomsky have to live? Seriously.)
Way to win friends and influence people. Ffs.
And that's why the CD angle is so wrong in situations like these. Even if you're not as profoundly annoying as Mister Big there, you still have literally no chance of making your point both successfully and succinctly. You have no hope of leaving no wiggle-room. None.
Note: When I made my very first post in this thread I hadn't actually seen or heard the video, because I couldn't get it to open. But I had read "Eugene's" sneaky little blogpost & the words he quoted from Chomsky, and I had heard Chomsky speak (on another topic) just a couple of weeks ago, when he already sounded sadly & noticeably aged -- although still very cogent and convincing and knowledgable and interesting. Whoever called him "senile" was factually wrong, and wrong in the other way too.
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