Noam Chomsky: US, a Top Terrorist State

[davidthegnome]

17. Way to entirely miss the point.

What I said above has absolutely - nothing - to do with climate change. People - should - be able and willing to think for themselves, especially in this age of social media and insanely limited attention spans. Noam Chomsky is not a scientist. I believe he is a Professor of... what is it... linguistics? There is quite a lot of difference between political opinions, and actual science. When I suggest that people should think for themselves, I'm not talking about making up your own scientific facts, as that really would be stupid. I'm talking about original ideas, critical thinking, the notion that someone might have an opinion of their own that isn't simply parroting what a supposedly grand intellectual like Chomsky has to say.

The problem is, lots of Americans either can't, or don't think for themselves. They blindly follow what someone else has told them to believe. Chomsky's opinion on matters that are rather subjective are no more valid than anyone else's - a good deal less so than some. Arrogance has nothing to do with fact, but when you're trying to promote a personal agenda or political rhetoric, when you're essentially trying to sell an idea, it helps to have some measure of humility.

I'm not really sure why I bother. You don't need me to point these things out, you're just attempting to ridicule.