Going Crazy, Being Crazy, Criminally

NOAM CHOMSKY became a professor of linguistics and philosophy at M.I.T. in 1955, the year I was born, and he's still there. He has done for the science of linguistics, the study of human language, what Einstein did for physics; rewritten its rules in theory and practice, revolutionized it. Chomsky is regarded as the leading intellectual in the United States everywhere in the world, except in the United States, where his radical political ideology and activism renders him somewhat of a mainstream outcast, and keeps him out of the mainstream conservative media. (yes, America's mainstream media is conservative, not liberal, as it is corporate owned, and speaks for corporate interests.) Chomsky is somewhat of a cult figure within the progressive and far left communities, so, he gets plenty of attention. he considers himself a "socialist anarchist". No, those two words, which imply big government and not government, are not contradictory, nor mutually exclusive. In face a large body of literature is devoted to this economic political concept, in which all government resides in the hands of local democratically operated committees, and economic equality is mandated. Much of Chomsky's writing, many of his books, explain America's role in the world, and the fact that the United States, ever since it acquired world hegemony after World War Two, has essentially ruled the world and insists on absolute obedience to its wishes, under penalty of military conquest. Among his latest book is, aptly title "Who Rules the World"? Noam Chomsky says that the Republican party is the most dangerous organization in world history, probably because of its ability to control the behavior of the most powerful nation in history, and its tendency to control the U.S. in a manner antithetical to not only the rest of the world, but to almost all of its own citizens. He goes further. he refers to the G.O.P. as the most deadly terrorists organization in the world. Foreign wars of aggression, justified by fake claims of defending freedom and democracy but really in pursuit of foreign resources, mainly oil, instigated by deceit and immoral diplomacy, contribute to this assessment. For decades he has pointed out that the desperate poverty with which much of Latin America is afflicted derives directly from deliberate American foreign policy, based on the false assumption that America knows best, and that making the world safe for American corporate exploitation and economic domination serves not only America's interests, but everyone else's as well. American foreign policy architects, and American corporate policy makers of course know full well that only the wealthy owners of American corporations benefit, or are intended to benefit from U.S. foreign policy. The reality is one thing, the propaganda is another. Every country from which the massive flow if immigrants is currently coming to the southern border has been made poor by American corporate exploitation. The usual scenario is that a small Central American country duly elects a socialist president, who pledges to redistribute land and wealth equally among the poor, the United States objects, then overthrows the socialist government and replaces it with a dictator who favors corporate capitalism and enriches himself by turning over land and other resources to American corporations for their profit, at the expense of the newly impoverished masses, who then head north. Every claim made by Chomsky he footnotes, give full attribution, backs up with facts. Anyone wishing to do so can research what he says, and confirm it. Chomsky currently claims that Donald Trump and his devout followers are criminally insane. he cites the constant, blatant lying, and its acceptance by those who support him. he goes into greater detail about Trump and his supporters, sticking with his charge of criminal insanity and supporting it with facts. it is easy to use the internet to listen to Chomsky's lectures, to read what he writes, and to research the factual basis for his statements. Just as everyone is to some degree physically ill, with small physical ailments of one kind or another almost constantly. In essence, we are all a bit crazy. Its reflected in and manifested by our thoughts and actions. Fifteen percent of the Republican party denies the reality of human made climate change. That's a good start. Anyone who believes that he or she knows more about the earth's atmospheric conditions than people who spend their lives and accumulate advanced degrees studying such matters, and believes that the fact that the hundreds of thousands of such people, trained professional scientists, who all tell us the same thing, are wrong, are, arguably, a tad shy of a full deck, if not criminally insane. Bear in mind that for twenty years the U.S. Department of Defense has warned us that human made climate change is the greatest threat to American national security, based on simple science and by simply looking around at the climate. What, other than a criminally insane traitor to the United States is a person, who denies reality for the mere sake of self esteem and defense of personal political ideology? That seems to be the point Chomsky is making. But again, anyone can see for himself, or herself.