What does /lit/ think of Chomsky?

>>7607230
Manufacturing Consent was ok.

His theories are unfalsifiable trash.

His politics are embarrassingly childish.

>>7607230
I think he'll be ok

>>7607250
Universal Grammar is real, and the cognitive revolution couldn't have happened without him. Stay salty, behaviorist.

>>7607269
>cognitive revolution couldn't have happened >without him
That's like saying : The rooster gives rise to the sun every morning.

>>7607230

A great go-to man for political insights as regards American foreign policy and a potent tonic for treating the insane theory myopia of the academic left.

In syntax Chomsky's influence is so pervasive that it's not a question of what you think of him, but how you come to terms with him

>>7607230

This is surely sarcasm?

His foreign policy invariably boils down to "lol Western imperialism did it" and his last contribution to the myopic left was the denigration of behavioralist politicization in the '60s; however, outside of linguistics he's been just as bad as behavioralists in propagating inane postmodern thought (i.e. IQ denialism in a number of ways).

He is the quintessential academic that espouses dogmatic, borderline lunatic views.

>>7607250
his political theory isn't anything impressive, his command of the facts of the post-war 20th century and his ability to give an accessible interpretation of them is.

>>7607541

remember that time you didn't read noam chomsky ever?

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>>7607541

>behavioralists

A very clever man bizarrely committed to bad ideas

reminder sam harris bodied this fool

>>7607541
lol no

DUDE TREES LMAO

terrible speaker. i bet half his classes fell asleep 15 minutes in at MIT. proof: go to youtube and listen to him talk

>>7607230
interesting ideas overshadowed by dogmatic beliefs

>>7607230
All I know is that he is a killer linguist.

>>7607230
would take him after the debate/10

>2016
>not being an anarchist

>>7609280

>killer linguist
no cunning linguist pun

ma nigga

>>7607291

>Not believing in Roosterism

Okay there negative Nancy, no need to get feather fandangled.