Chomsky is frustrating. Some of his ideas are so good that not only did they break into popular culture, the right adopted them (fake news). But he also had some galaxy level bad takes.
My frustration with him began when I watched a Youtube video called “Chomsky eviscerates post-modernism” or something like that. I expected him to defend structuralism or Marxism, but instead it was just a bunch of fallacy laden personal attacks and nonsense of the kind you would expect of Ben Shapiro.
Funny enough, that was my first major negative encounter with Chomsky as well. “I understand many complex things but I can’t understand postmodernism; therefore, postmodernism is fake” level thinking.
Chomsky is frustrating. Some of his ideas are so good that not only did they break into popular culture, the right adopted them (fake news). But he also had some galaxy level bad takes.
My frustration with him began when I watched a Youtube video called “Chomsky eviscerates post-modernism” or something like that. I expected him to defend structuralism or Marxism, but instead it was just a bunch of fallacy laden personal attacks and nonsense of the kind you would expect of Ben Shapiro.
Funny enough, that was my first major negative encounter with Chomsky as well. “I understand many complex things but I can’t understand postmodernism; therefore, postmodernism is fake” level thinking.