From The Daily Caller:
…(Chomsky) explained those feelings led to November’s election results, and would have serious repercussions for civilization.
“All of this combines the latest election a couple of days ago,” he continued. “You could almost interpret it a kind of a death knell for the species. There was an article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, you know – not a radical rag exactly. They’re running through the new Republicans coming to Congress and they’re worried about them.”…
I once attended a lecture given by a Dominican priest and he noted that there are areas of expertise that people have and they should be wary of straying outside them. He, a priest and educator, was fully qualified to opine on matters of philosophy and theology, but wouldnt want to stray in to physics because it wasn’t his area of expertise. So, too, should a physicist be cautious about making theological pronouncements. Noam Chomsky is a brilliant linguist but he seems to have never learned this simple lesson – don’t go in to what you don’t understand.
Unfortunately for people like Chomsky, such caution is seldom exercised. Chomsky knows very little of politics, economics or history, but he has pronounced on them for decades now. His whole training and experience is built around the rarified atmosphere of MIT – he doesn’t know how Joe Average lives; doesn’t understand how wealth is created; doesn’t understand that because he, Chomsky, is brilliant in one area it doesn’t mean that he’s brilliant in all areas…nor that someone without Chomsky’s credentials could be equally brilliant in other areas.
When we battle liberalism is it good to remember that we are fighting people who really are convinced that they are better than everyone else. Better intellectually as well as morally. To someone like Chomsky a smart and good person cannot think differently from Chomsky – and so anyone who does think different is either so stupid or wicked as to be dangerous. I, as a conservative, cannot be conservative unless I am one of those things – stupid, or wicked. If I were smart and good, I’d be a liberal, goes liberal thinking.
The crisis we face in America is because for nigh on a century we have allowed people like Chomsky to have a say in areas they have no particular ability in. A credentialed – as opposed to educated – elite has battened itself upon us and has made a complete hash out of our society. Our whole economic and political system has now been geared towards serving the needs and desires of a small, elite Ruling Class (among whose members are some ostensible Republicans and conservatives) – and the mess we have (hollowed out economy, social disintegration, etc) is the result. In order to cure our society we must put people like Chomsky in his place – to keep him as a brilliant linguist, but ensure that when it comes time to decide what level of taxation is good or what sort of regulations to put on business, he has no more say than anyone else.
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