Get to know your DBO - TEACHERS! *sOT* (Off-Topic)

by SonofMacPhisto , Monday, May 12, 2014, 10:28 (3639 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by SonofMacPhisto, Monday, May 12, 2014, 10:34

Thanks to the miracle of books, Noam Chomsky and Carl Sagan have been my most recent influences. They both build on what I've learned before, and help encourage me to say the things that can't be said and ask the questions so few do.

I used to like Noam Chomsky, until I realized he wasn't as good a thinker as I thought. I was first convinced of this when I saw his Justice vs Power debate with Foucault.

http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawGakdNoT0

Watch Foucault hand him his ass.

Cool. I'll read this when I get the chance.

EDIT: I see it's from 1971? I've been reading a lot of his recent stuff (since 2000 anyway), I wonder how it will compare.