Reply #3: OK, here is the email

[cryofan]

Generally, I would be skittish of posting an email, but since it is Chomsky, after all...for the purposes of posterity, here it is, first my email to him, quoted, and then his email to me:


At 10:22 AM 11/22/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>I caught your interview on Charlie Rose a couple of days ago. Great stuff!
>
>I used to think you were a paranoid nut, but lately I think your ideas are
>brilliant. I have done a lot of reading and thinking about politics and
>govt and the media over the last few years, and my ideas have pretty much
>converged with your own. I call your "implicit conspiracy of the elite,"
>"CorpGovMedia."
>
>The CorpGovMedia conspiracy is mainly unspoken, and is organized similarly
>to flocking birds and fish that careen and maneuver seemingly as one, and
>the individual CorpGovMedia entities take their flocking cues from other
>subtle signals from leader entities based on internalized CorpGovMedia
>unspoken rules.
>
> I really think the time may have come for your ideas, and you know what may
>be the driving force for acceptance of your ideas? The runup in medical
>insurance costs and health care. In fact, I think the increasing cost of
>insurance in general may be a symptom of the oncoming failure of corporate
>capitalism.
>
>With the increasing use of the internet, Americans are becoming more aware
>of how much the European social democracies and Canada are providing for
>their citizens. As health care becomes more and more expensive, American
>anger and envy will grow. Such are the base emotions upon which political
>revolutions are built....
>
>But CorpGovMedia is already beginning to demonize the European social
>democracies, just as they did the Soviet Union decades ago. The propaganda
>machine is really beginning to crank up....
>
>Just keep fighting the good fight! Timing is crucial, and your time may soon
>come! I am sure that some day, people will look back on this historical
>period and agree that you were right.
>
>What do you think of Dennis Kucinich for President? He has prompted me to
>get involved in politics at the volunteer level for the first time in my
>life.
>
>Here is another idea you ought to look into: cryonics, the experimental
>science whereby people are cryopreserved upon legal death for possible
>future revival. Please consider it!



Glad you liked the interview. And I like your term -- though I don't think
it's a conspiracy, except in the terms that Adam Smith used when he warned
of the conspiracies of business men and governments against the public (so
I'm far from taking credit for the idea).

I think you are right about the internet, and also agree that the medical
catastrophe ahead may have quite an effect on people's minds.

I like what Kucinich stands for a lot, and if we had as much of a
democratic culture as, say, Brazil, where elections are more than just a
game among rich investors, then I'd be supporting him for President. But
we're far from that, and have a lot of work to do to get to that stage.

Cryonics? Honest truth is I'd rather not witness the world we're probably
leaving to our descendants.

Noam Chomsky