Deep Thunder- 11/07

I have been blown away by Chomsky since I first read him. It should be of no surprise to those of you who have been enlightened and unplugged from the Simulacra throughout the course of this class that although Chomsky is one of the wisest and widely quoted people in the world today; very few of us had heard of him before this class. The hegemony clearly has too much to risk to let Chomsky’s messages go mainstream. He is very charismatic, a true genius, father of transformational grammar, and cute as one of those stocking puppets you find all over craft fairs. He seems to be blessed with a crystal clear lens of discernment; he knows when he is being duped.
Noam is one of the few published authors today that cite all of the atrocities that the US government performs and has performed. When you read his work, you realize the expanse of the US killing machine, which is one of the most acute manifestations of the evils inherent in the modern western mythology. These events, like Chomsky, are pretty well kept under wraps so as to not stall the progress of our machine. Anti-communism, anti-terrorism, anti-Chomskyism?
For those of you in class that are interested in studying US foreign policy a bit more, there is a class on it this spring. It seems like it will be fascinating. I don’t remember the name, exactly, but its an international affairs class, so just look for the description online. The Iraq war seems to be our Vietnam, and now that we have a democratic House and Senate, perhaps we will get out. I think the class will provide insight into an atrocity so big that, unlike Chomsky and all the other smalleatrocitieses he points out, cannot possibly be swept under the rug.