one day while gassing up my car, the gas pump had a sticker that read - "read chomsky". which is ironic because the gas pump probably would not exist if chomsky had his way. i found out chomsky is the king of the left and he is the most important intellectual alive. i read his writings and watched his youtube videos and learned a lot of very important information you won't find anywhere else especially about US atrocities (the new york times occasionally raises questions about the blood and gore of US actions but they leave out the underlying premise). but i was constantly baffled at chomsky's impractical ideology and illogical opinions about politics. as my cool idol jimmy dore said, we all have our moments of disagreement with chomsky. i took notes and categorized my disagreements with chomsky and leftists in general (politics-for-dummies).
from a purely moral perspective, chomsky is always right. he is like a god who knows all the facts and dazzles you with a mountain of historical information. but the moral choice is not always the correct choice because if an invading army is raping my wife and daughter i'm not going to laugh at the rapist and say - "haha jokes on you because we are moral and you are immoral". chomsky once said that "karl marx had a lot of important things to say but like every other human being, makes mistakes. so you learn from what he had to say and you disregard his mistakes". so i guess it's not crazy for me to say the same about him.
actually it was chomsky who gave me the confidence to rant more about politics when he said a car mechanic (e.g. bernie sanders) can be an intellectual. so it's his fault i wrote "politics for dummies". i wasted a month of my life writing this piece of garbage. it's one month i can never take back. i also found out that intellectuals can be just as stupid as me when many of them vilified chomsky for defending the freedom of speech of a holocaust denier. what chomsky basically said was "i don't support his views but i will defend his right to say them". yet the intellectuals idiotically accused chomsky of supporting the holocaust denier. but it was also partly chomsky's fault for not being straightforward enough. chomsky was also falsely accused of denying the khmer rouge atrocities. i studied it in more detail and found out he never did such a thing. in fact it was the mainstream media who were making baseless claims on the atrocities before the fact. you can google to find out more about this and judge for yourself.
chomsky is shunned by the mainstream media because he reveals too much about society. but with the internet and social media, i think chomsky could be a much more effective activist reaching a wider audience if he had a better understanding of human nature. the paradox of life is the smarter you are, the more disconnected you are with common people and you become naive about their imperfections.
i think chomsky is more of a social justice artist instead of a warrior. just like a starving artist, he sticks to his moral principles even if it undermines his activist goals. during an interview with al jazeera, he was asked if he regrets that his ideas haven't had an impact on society. he replied - "if i was in the mainstream i'd begin to ask myself what i'm doing wrong". which confuses me because if chomsky is right about human nature then it should be easy for him to be popular, giving him more power to prevent infants from dying of malnutrition. this is clear proof chomsky is wrong about human nature and he knows it.
the neocons and neoliberals probably cheer every time chomsky advocates for the dismantling of corporations. the koch brothers would also be glad every time chomsky promotes anarchist socialism, which removes our right to own properties and do contracts with one another because it undermines his message on US atrocities and climate change. just like when leftists cheer if a pastor steals from his congregation and has 5 mistresses because it undermines his power and influence.
leftists might think that trump is like a cockroach compared to chomsky but if you go to a dangerous slum to buy a second hand car, who do you want to accompany you to protect you and haggle for you? trump or chomsky? chomsky might voluntarily over pay when he sees the malnourished kids of the seller but i would still choose chomsky to protect me because of his special fighting skills. he bit the ear of amy goodman's dad (this is just a false rumor).
leftists in quora were saying that chomsky will destroy ben shapiro in a debate. they were saying how shapiro only debates college kids and if he debates a true intellectual like chomsky he would loose by a mile. this is my comment:
the debate would be useless because it would be like debating which color is more beautiful. chomsky would always win the moral or idealistic argument but shapiro would always win the practical, realistic, self interest or survival of the fittest argument. morality is not always the right choice because if an invading army is raping my wife and daughter i’m not going to laugh at the rapists and say “haha joke is on you because you are the bad guys and we are the good guys”. choosing between practicality and morality is like deciding whether to be attracted to a man or a woman. it’s simply your personality and it cannot be debated. any low intellect will destroy chomsky in a debate confined to the “survival of the fittest” context but of course chomsky would be smart enough to not agree to that useless debate. also, saying chomsky will beat shapiro is like saying classical music is better than rock music or beethoven will beat chuck berry in a music contest (no pun intended on chomsky's hearing issues. i would be very lucky if i even reach chomsky's age). speaking of beethoven, i ask chomsky for his forgiveness for this rant i'm currently writing. roll over, chomsky - Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry LIVE. i wrote a very long blog on all the arguments that would destroy chomsky in a practical or non idealistic context - politics for dummies 2.0 (https://ian-crystal.blogspot.com/2019/06/politics-for-dummies.html)
(for more of my knowledge bombs, click the "ian's knowledge bombs" banner at the top of this article and choose any article in the table of contents that piques your interest)
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