Reply #9: Chomsky is ignorant

[WitchWay]

Chomsky is ignorant about the mass of people and their motivations. His rant is so bourgeouis and demeaning. Chomsky talks about the "mass of people" like they are some all-the-same homogenous group of victimhood and low expectations. What the hell does he know of the masses?

When you grow up poor, or in a bad situation -- the "slightly better" risks like he describes are slightly nothing. He gives health care as an example of that "slightly better" -- but the democrats won't give a shit about you if you're poor either. Hell, I couldn't get any fucking health insurance under DEMOCRATIC rule. Chomsky's mass of people are upper and middle middle class!

If you grow up when things are bad -- things suck so bad, that it doesn't really matter if some upper middle class people have some extra perks in their life, when you don't get ANYTHING.

You learn its better to take serious gambles and risks in life, than to live half-assed. And if you are smart enough to not be so "sensible" (like Chomsky thinks that folks OUGHT to be) -- you can act like a fool and talk back, speak out, make loud and serious demands, show foolish courage and determination -- instead of cowering and begging for crumbs your whole life. Then, you're getting somewhere...(and at least then if you are getting screwed, at least you are not being USED on top).

Chomsky wants to fantasize that the "mass of the people" can be some hapless little pawn-victims to be manipulated on some chessboard of systemic hopelessness. Chomsky is a firm believer in systemic hopelessness and perpetual powerless victims of circumstance. And whats laughable is that chomsky's view of the mass of people IS an "abstract discussions suitable to some seminar."

Chomsky is really just bought into the mainstream media and should get a grasp on how they manipulate language in order to determine public opinion and imagination for their own corporate/imperialist ends. Chomsky's real world is real middle/upper class intellectual ivy league world of pedantism, NOT any real world I've lived in. In "REAL"ITY -- people aren't so HOPELESSLY beholden to the prisons of chomsky's worldview of: language, media, thought, politics.

But, I guess Chomsky likes to look down on people.

Chomsky knows full well that demands can still be made, that the "mass of people" are powerful (not small and weak)...he is disingenous in the extreme to call for Unity when it's precisely premature Unity which will stifle progress. People are full of courage and intelligence -- people aren't so stupid to take the not at all acceptable "slightly better" bait only to wind up caught in the same trap in the end.