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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_chomsky

He's a very smart guy. I don't agree with every he says though. I think his fundamental mistake is to assume that all people are rational. He's so intelligent, he just can't imagine that there are people on Earth who behave irrationally.

When I read Chomsky giving advice on politics, I feel like I'm reading an adult giving adult advice - but not realizing that the advice is being given to children. To me, Chomsky often sounds like this: "of course everyone will want to brush his teeth three times a day, because nobody wants to get cavities." That's great advice. I mean, I can't form a logical argument against that. It's just that it doesn't work if your audience is children. It turns out that they don't want to brush their teeth and they don't think about the future and getting cavities.

That's the only way that I can explain it. Remember how everyone acts in Kubrick's 2001? Remember how Floyd sits politely, legs crossed, and exchanges pleasant banter with the Soviets on the space station? Everyone is so reserved, so enlightened. Sometimes I just get the impression that Chomsky writes for the people of that world.