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Noam Chomsky - Concision and 911 Conspiracy

Noam Chomsky is one of my favourite authors and speakers.  Though one of the world's leading intellectuals, he is rarely interviewed in the US media.  He doesn't speak in sound-bites and his ideas and answers delve deeper into the issues than the 30 seconds normally permitted to interviewees.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cceC3DeFcY

I've heard some people dismiss Chomsky as a conspiracy theorist.  But I think that's ignorant and simplistic and it falls within the concision-type thinking that he talks about in the video above.

"The beauty of concision is that you can only repeat conventional thoughts." 

There are a number of conspiracy theories that say that the Twin Towers were brought down by a controlled explosion and not by the aircrafts that hit them.  Here's what Chomsky has to say about that:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGd0t8v-d4

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDqDvbgeXM&feature=related

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Noam Chomsky is GREAT. I can listen to him talk all day! What he says about the towers is very practical and logical. P.S. That DAMN photographer gets in the shot about halfway through his explaination! Kick that guy out! =)
over 16 years ago
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hmm... i don't agree that the US media is the only one who demands people to be concise...
over 16 years ago
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ah, I 100% agree w/ him on the 9/11 thing, it is total BS! (clear to me, someone who knows 'anything about the sciences'!)
over 16 years ago
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(Jason - he said it in the first video)
over 16 years ago
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I learned about Noam Chomsky in college...he has some great theories about language acquisition. Thanks for bringing us someone interesting, Jason!
over 16 years ago
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Noam Chomsky is awesome bro. Have you seen his bit in the Doc "The Corporation"? H
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GREAT speaker! :)
over 16 years ago
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Heard this guy's named mentioned a lot but this is the first time I bothered to watch / read up. Thanks for the links J. Interestingly (reading his Wiki page) he explains a lot of the things I've been feeling but have been unable to put into words: Not in the video your posted here, but namely to do with my hatred of marketing people & corporate control of the arts & media. On his Wiki page he spells it out the five "filters" through which all media information must pass before being presented to the public at large. Non-conspiratorial yet institutional & economically structured propaganda: The same filters which distort political information can also be applied to the creative arts ... not being able to see the problem clearly had been pissing me off for quite some time, and yet he clarified it in a paragraph. Will be keeping an eye out for him more often, because of your blog post. Vote for Chomsky! Actually, I think I read he's socialist-liberal and I'm anarchist-capitalist thru & thru :)
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