Noam Chomsky reminds us that the US broke its agreement with Russia...
My high school buddy told me to study Noam Chomsky - in the mid-90s. I saw the "Manufacturing Consent" documentary around 1992 - in my Madison, Wisconsin cooperative or the UW-Greens activist group... I studied Chomsky on my own for a couple years. My favorite books are: "Year 501: The Conquest Continues" and "Political Economy of Human Rights" and "World Orders: Old and New" and "At War with Asia." So my "At War with Asia" book got disappeared - I suspected a local evangelical bookstore where I hung out for free coffee. So I contacted Chomsky and he sent a nice response. I had relied on Chomsky's quotes and references for my anti-sweatshop labor activism - to debate the University. Then I realized on Chomsky's analysis in 1998 to PREDICT the US would invade Iraq again. My "instructor" said my paper was "too aggressive." Instead I made hundreds of copies of the paper and passed it out in Minneapolis. haha. Then in 2001 I got a nice long response to Chomsky about my master's thesis and John Zerzan - I saved that response. Congratulations on getting the interview. His last response to me is that it was unfortunate he didn't have time to consider the noncommutative music analysis I had conjured up. He does consider music to be a promising model for the origins of human language....
There's this new invention that teaches dogs to talk with their paws - pressing words. It's really amazing! Look up "Stella is angry" or something. Stella is one of the dogs. There's a few of them. They tell their owners when they want to go outside and if they are sad. It's really really stunning. I'm convinced that animals - or there is this Anna lady who claims to communicate on a spirit level with animals. Yes I know spiritual masters.
There is a holographic reality that is the foundation of information signals and our pineal gland transduces it. I've discussed this with Chomsky a bit in regards to Musilanguage. Chomsky has worked with Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose who advocate this holographic mind model from quantum consciousness. I used to dog "handle" sled dogs - we had 26 dogs and we could recognize their individual calls. Each time we fed them, twice a day, they all howled in unison afterwards to thank us for the food. It was really striking. Or I suppose it was some kind wolf bonding ritual. haha. The dogs would look at each other before they schemed some joke on us when they were leading the sled dog team.
I have studied Chomsky and I quote him a lot in my master's thesis but I don't agree with him on everything. He's a fascinating scholar to be sure. His critique of U.S. imperialism with its roots in his upbringing around the anarchist activists in New York - this is very fascinating. I have discussed this with him. Professor Chris Knight wrote a critique of Chomsky's linguistics and of course Chomsky dismissed the critique. I think Chomsky is aiming for something much deeper than we realize when he basically says we don't know how the human mind works. This ties into quantum physics and logic, etc. Actually I quoted him regarding his dad teaching traditional language and Chomsky citing Martin Buber - so the mystic inspiration of sound, the source of sound as a kind of direct knowledge.
For example Chomsky said if humans didn't have "I-language" then perhaps would could have the other type of perceptions of animals like snakes seeing infrared or bees and birds seeing ultraviolet. In fact the quantum biology research of Hameroff and Penrose take this concept to a whole other level. Chomsky actually made it on MSABCIA as I like to call it - but the host was educated outside the U.S. I think as he has a British accent. haha. So it's pretty ironic that Chomsky is much more appreciated outside the "belly of the beast" as one activist couple called the U.S. (they had moved to Costa Rica). This idea of "innate freedom" is also something Chomsky has said ties to his linguistic work. It sounds like existentialism to me.
As if the source of human thought as an infinite Aristotelian potential of discrete number is also the source of human freedom or "free will." Stuart Hameroff's article on quantum free will is his most read article and then Hameroff says how he proposed working with Chomsky on linguistics. Chomsky also exposed the Cold War as more a less a scam to prop up the corporate welfare military technology for private contractors, etc. - and if we look at the book "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" by Professor Richard Spence (a recent publication) we can see that the original creation of the Soviet Union did initially have Western funding.
In other words - the irony being that the Chimpsky Monkey that supposedly, named after Chomsky, proved that only humans have language, defined by the phrasing of the syntax - the "recursive grammar" - is that in the end modern humans are "lemmings going over a cliff" as Chomsky has recently stated. Chomsky now emphasizes the abrupt global warming crisis as tied to the nuclear apocalypse. In fact my master's thesis quoting Chomsky was tying his views to a radical ecology viewpoint. I am glad to see him increasingly supporting the nonwestern indigenous cultures at the frontlines of defending the last bastions of biodiversity on Earth.
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