Xinyu Hu wrote:
Based on my hearings of Chomsky (I only read and heard a few/bits of his speeches) - they are neither coherent, nor are they clear nor sharp. Instead, they seem to be beating around the bush, trying to use logic and reason to tell a little aspect of the truth, then hide the rest. He is, after all, an intellectual.
Personally, I know I am not a big fan of intellectuals, scientists, atheists, theists, demagogues, politicians, lawyers, and psychiatrists and people who claim that you must have a belief to survive. To me, that is just a load of crap. I live without a belief. Deal with it.
Thanks and regards
P.S. If I have offended anyone, I need not apologize.
3 random quotes grabbed from google:
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "
For a fairly public figure in western culture, I consider these observations to be relatively sharp and clear, and subversive as well, which was my attraction to his ideas in the first place.
BTW, it seems to me that if a person really doesn't feel the need to apologize, he generally also doesn't feel the need to state that fact.
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