Fuck Yeah Noam Chomsky

October 2010

15 posts

vomit: 'Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Mind', an excerpt from 'Language and Mind', Noam Chomsky → punchwand.tumblr.com

As far as we know, possession of human language is associated with a specific type of mental organisation, not simply a higher degree of intelligence. There seems to be no substance to the view that human language is simply a more complex instance of something to be found elsewhere in the animal…

Oct 26, 201011 notes

#noam chomsky #linguistics #language #mind #biology

Oct 25, 201015 notes

#noam chomsky #freedom #hate #usa

“If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.” —Noam Chomsky (via mohandasgandhi)

Oct 25, 2010119 notes

#noam chomsky #power #pressure

“It is only in folk tales, children’s stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.” —Noam Chomsky, “The World After September 11th,” AFSC Conference at Tufts University, Massachusetts, December 8, 2001 (via quetzalcoatlhadanafro)

Oct 24, 201033 notes

#power #tufts university #noam chomsky

“The government of Israel does not like the kinds of things I say - which puts them into the category of, I suppose, every other government in the world.” —Noam Chomsky (after the Israelis refused to allow him to enter the occupied West Bank from Jordan). (via slabbb-blockkk-hilarious)

Oct 22, 201061 notes

“Destabilization in the interest of stability makes perfect sense in the age of Orwell.” —Noam Chomsky (via agavebuzz)

Oct 21, 20108 notes

#noam chomsky #george orwell

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” —Noam Chomsky (via jirirybar)

Oct 17, 201026 notes

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Oct 17, 201032 notes

#terrorism #noam chomsky #9/11

“Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business,” concluded America’s leading 20th century social philosopher John Dewey, and will remain so as long as power resides in “business for private profit through private control of banking, land, industry, reinforced by command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda”.

The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.

Oct 10, 201016 notes

#noam chomsky #business #propaganda #usa

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Oct 9, 20102 notes

#fallujah #noam chomsky #iraq

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Oct 8, 20107 notes

#noam chomsky #obama #cigarretes #marijuana #war on drugs #usa

Oct 5, 201049 notes

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Oct 2, 20109 notes

#noam chomsky #mural

The Meeting That Never Was: Pat Tillman and Noam Chomsky → commondreams.org

Oct 2, 20103 notes

#pat tillman #noam chomsky

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Oct 2, 20108 notes

#health care #noam chomsky #usa