Wow, I was pleasantly surprised by the questions the redditors are suggesting. A good, intelligent mix of both political and linguistics related questions.
Imagine a sci fi story in which a government creates a drug that makes people acutely aware of the nation's problems yet totally apathetic about them, reducing the risk that some awful truth will be revealed that might lead to revolution.
Is the Internet this drug? Is there anything at all that you could possibly say in this interview session that would motivate a single person watching to change his/her life course to take action?
people are not aware of the actual ills of the world. unlike the average joe Chomsky has no excuse for his elementary econ 101 mistakes. he is an entertainer first, educator second.
Certainly a valuable contribution, but I suspect someone else would have figured that out fairly soon if he hadn't. On the other hand, nobody else in the US cares about what the US does in South/Central America.
right, I don't know much about micro-biology. therefore I don't go spouting off about it. rand (and chompsky) routinely spouted off about things that were out of their domain.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 47.2 ms ] threadImagine a sci fi story in which a government creates a drug that makes people acutely aware of the nation's problems yet totally apathetic about them, reducing the risk that some awful truth will be revealed that might lead to revolution.
Is the Internet this drug? Is there anything at all that you could possibly say in this interview session that would motivate a single person watching to change his/her life course to take action?
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