08-11-2009, 12:52 PM
Paul
Thanks for all this. It really is very persuasive indeed. It illustrates the vastness of the deceptions everyone is up against if their purpose really is genuine, agenda-free inquiry into the realities behind the façades of 'official' narratives of just about everything worthy of a 'narrative'.
The thing is of course, that just about everybody DOES have an agenda - whether or not they are concious of it - and Chomsky is clearly no exception. He needs a good grilling on the nature of his, rather than the customary deferential invitations to wax lyrical about his opinions of this and that issue du jour.
The Chomsky thing is especially illustrative in that he is still regarded with reverence by people that I have great respect for - The 'Media-Lens' organisation being a case in point.
Thanks for all this. It really is very persuasive indeed. It illustrates the vastness of the deceptions everyone is up against if their purpose really is genuine, agenda-free inquiry into the realities behind the façades of 'official' narratives of just about everything worthy of a 'narrative'.
The thing is of course, that just about everybody DOES have an agenda - whether or not they are concious of it - and Chomsky is clearly no exception. He needs a good grilling on the nature of his, rather than the customary deferential invitations to wax lyrical about his opinions of this and that issue du jour.
The Chomsky thing is especially illustrative in that he is still regarded with reverence by people that I have great respect for - The 'Media-Lens' organisation being a case in point.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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