Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:
That prof needs to listen to some Billy Bob Thornton dialogue from Landman.
In all seriousness this reminds me of when I was in school and read Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". Most people read that and take it to be about what Chomsky wanted which was essentially the speech in Good Will Hunting where Will does the interview with the NSA and essentially explains how they manipulate the public and are evil capitalists. The book reveals some greater truths though and that is that the principles of propaganda and manipulating the public have nothing to do with the actual policies but are just a method, you can use them for or against issues.
More than that though as I read it there were so many things that would easily be dismissed in his arguments with a tiny bit of common sense and it was clear he simply ignored anything that went against his arguments. You can make all kinds of stuff like this if you simply ignore the counter points and obvious facts and that is something both sides do. It's the death of critical thinking and unfortunately that kicked into overdrive in schools sometime in the late 90s and '00s due to guys like Chomsky and the Political Correctness movement that eventually became the Woke lunacy and all the other mess.
Now you have Universities, esp Liberal Arts, dominated by idiots like this who just make up this stupidity and get validation from other idiots and since they have 3 letters after their name they call it credible when the reality is "The Emperor has no clothes".
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