Saying goodbye to Noam Chomsky
This will probably be the last piece of content from Noam Chomsky that I will ever post, and I want to share a few parting thoughts.
Firstly, thanks to Able Danger for supplying the link posted above. The video is timecoded to 4m46s where he starts talking about mandatory vaccines.
Due to his advanced age and apparent mental decay, it would be probably be the decent thing to "go easy" on him, but I'm not going to do that. The subject matter is too important for civilisation and humanity.
It's my contention that in this segment Chomsky reveals his true nature - what he has always been, but which was disguised for most of his life behind the facade of a mild mannered Professor of Liguistics at a prestigious New England academic institution. I believe that advanced old age has finally peeled back the mask, to allow us to see him for what he really is.
The comments on this video are overwhelmingly incredulous and horrified at his cold, hard, ruthless, authoritatian mindset - which is a good thing, and gives us hope.
Many seem shocked to hear their hero advocate brutal, totalitarian measures cloaked in an imbecilic analogy of traffic lights. The crudeness of his argument stings like a slap in the face. It's a giant insult to the readers of his many books. It's a grotesque betrayal which cannot be excused by claiming he has dementia.
Even though many seem surprised to hear him say these terrible things, it must be recognised that this is not new, it's just that the mask has completely slipped off.
Chomsky was an apologist for Pol Pot and Mao - this is a fact. He thought the Khmer Rouge were OK. In response to the question of whether 9/11 was an inside job, he said "who cares?". You can find these statements easily, I won't bother sharing links.
This song by Leonard Cohen sums up my feeling about this man who has slipped through the world, "well disguised" .
OK I'm pleading that this article (as with the other recent one) is "art". That lets me of the hook. I don't feel the need to justify its accuracy as it was primarily an expression of feeling, which is why I appended the song by Leonard Cohen, which is worth a listen.
The song seems to describe a subversive covert operative, who lives among the people and is accepted but whose allegience is to an enemy and whose goal is ultimately the destruction of the society within which he seems to be at home.
This is actually my gut feeling about Chomsky. That he is one of those duplicitous reds that JFK warned about in his famous speech about secret societies.
As a thought experiment, try compartmentalising the ideas of Adolf Hitler from Adolf Hitler the person. Can you do it? Can you respect him as a person while condeming his ideas? Try the same with Pol Pot, Stalin or Ted Bundy.
Let me know how it goes.
Fair enough. Nice observations but your overall perspective doesn't sit well with me.
Compartmentalisation, as I understand it, is a psychological defence mechanism. It may be useful in politics and as a survival mechanism, but it can easily lead to double standards and hypocrisy. It is one of the hallmarks of psychopathy.
When used as a survival mechanism it probably helps to reduce conflict but I think there are better mechanisms of avoiding conflict than building walls in our minds.
So I guess I'll just have to respectfully decline to agree with you there. 
Interesting observations, thanks.
If you plough through the comment section on some of his recent interviews many are making the point that Chomsky always had an authoritarian streak and was often involved propaganda and cover ups for the sake of establishment agendas.
You're certainly very generous and conciliatory in your assessment of his recent statements, but what about his rash climate alarmism which he has been peddling for the last decade? What about his "who cares?" attitude towards 9/11 or the assassination of JFK? What about his tendency to find excuses for communist totalitarianism while at the same time riding the moral high horse about US imperialism... I see a pattern, and it isn't a pretty one.
Thanks for the comment, but you've not really engaged with the thesis of this story. Up to you of course - but you seem unwilling to take a stand?
Everyone from Alex Jones to Jimmy Dore is disgusted by his recent outburst.