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Although that's pretty on-brand for Chomsky.
Care to elaborate? Always thought of him as a rather sane person but would be interested to understand better if I’m just not informed enough.
Chomsky was very good at accurately predicting how things would only get worse.
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Yeah..... He's definitely been a lot less sane in the last couple decades. In the past he's been pretty vocal about combating neoliberalism, but lately he's actions and associations have been pretty center right. I think it's mainly because he hasn't really kept up with modern geopolitics, and is prone to adopting the boomer mentality that any amount of socialism/communism is always bad.
If we're talking about philosophical criticisms, his main body of work is derived from an overly analytical breakdown of linguistical syntax. Which is important to a point, but it garnished a cult like following in political and law students for a long time.
These students didn't utilize this information as a way to breakdown things like manufactured consent in an understandable way, or to further better linguistic comprehension for the general public. Instead they just added it as another tool to their arsenal of dissembly. A common criticism of Chomsky is that he is one of the reasons modern politics is so reliant on semantic reasoning and logical fallacies.
Imo in debate/philosophy he's kinda like the guy who invented the machine gun. His original work was supposed to be used to halt the abuse of weaponized language, instead it just became a manual on how to do it better....and at some point I think he just rolled with it for the prestige and money.