Comments on: Episode 285 – Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-285-meet-noam-chomsky-academic-gatekeeper/ Open Source Intelligence News Sat, 02 May 2015 17:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Corbett https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-285-meet-noam-chomsky-academic-gatekeeper/comment-page-1/#comment-7070 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:53:07 +0000 http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=8169#comment-7070 Thanks for that. I actually did forget about that tidbit.

]]> By: Richard-Fitzwell https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-285-meet-noam-chomsky-academic-gatekeeper/comment-page-1/#comment-7067 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:42:30 +0000 http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=8169#comment-7067 Hey don’t forget that time that Noam decided he would accept fascism to save the world from global warming:

“Well, if wait for an ecological disaster, it’ll be too late–in fact, we might not even have such a long wait.

Look, it’s certainly true that as the threats mount, it may energize people–but you don’t wait for that to happen: first you have to prepare the ground. For example, suppose it was discovered tomorrow that the greenhouse effects has been way underestimated, and that the catastrophic effects are actually going to set in 10 years from now, and not 100 years from now or something. Well, given the state of the popular movements we have today, we’d probably have a fascist takeover–with everybody agreeing to it, because that would be the only method for survival that anyone could think of. I’d even agree to it, because there’s just no other alternatives right now.”

*emphasis mine.

Excerpt from ‘Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky’, pg. 388
(c) 2002 by Noam Chomsky, Peter Rounds Mitchell, and John Schoeffel

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