By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
Anarchy long has been a driving theme of the cynosure signer of an online petition of 1,200 authors and writers lending their support to the Occupy Wall Street types daily ramping up their message that Capitalism is Evil.
Noam Chomsky’s name stands out in bas-relief from even authors like Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, still under Imam Khomeimi’s fatwa for his novel The Satanic Verses (l989), along with Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple. Over fifty years a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky and his teachings often were mentioned in the academic circles of the University of Chicago types with whom I sometimes was allowed to chat.
His leftist interpretations of transformational grammar ideology somehow took second place to Chomsky’s belief that people are served best without any government at all. The word Anarchy in our Indo-European Family of Languages is derived from the Medieval Latin root of anarchia, and presciently from the Greek root anarchos which still means today what it meant centuries ago, namely “absence of government, a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority.”
My well worn Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary still serving me today says anarchy’s third meaning is “a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government.” Chomsky, according to Wikipedia, “from the age of 12 or 13, identified more fully with anarchist politics.” He praised the lessons he learned from living in the commune setting of an Israel kibbutz because “the kibbutzim came closer to the anarchist ideal” than any other similar effort.
Now, because he has placed his essay “My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death” under sanction of copyright protection, I can not directly quote Chomsky’s comparison of the architect of 9-11 with President George Bush who had to deal with what bin Laden did to America, I urge you to read for yourself Chomsky’s words. How ironic indeed is the fact that the esteemed professor often has to receive police protection while on the MIT campus “although he doesn’t agree with police protection,” according to Wiki. And do you really have to wonder why he was on the Unabomber’s list of planned targets? But aren’t what we’re really saying here is that Chomsky and the Occupy Wall Streeters carry much the same philosophy that government sucks but maybe not so much when we need to feel safe? Only an academic background would give these people the asinine duplicity of actions and words not being in synch.
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The magic green hat
The other day I needed to go to the emergency room after a home mishap.
Not wanting to sit there for 4 hours, I put on my MAGIC GREEN HAT. When I went into the ER, I noticed that 3/4 of the people got up and left.
I guess they decided that they weren't that sick after all. Cut at least 3 hours off my waiting time.
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FINISH Previous post: Suffice it to say when Ted Kaszinsky was arrested a year or two later, my memory flashed back to that chance meeting. Was it him? I'd bet on it, but wonder if I had done something different he might have changed his plans. They say we are often visited by angels unawares. I guess that applies to devils too, though it seemed the man was reaching out of his torture at that moment. I'll never know.
Of course these are the people who also believe capitalism sucks, unless they happen to benefit from its blessings! From Charlie Chaplin to Michael Moore, there's nothing more humorous than a truly blatant hypocrite!
Welcome to the world of the unwashed-physically and
psychologically.
As usual Suzanne, you bring up some wonderful and interesting points! I was unaware that Chomsky, Atwood, Walker and Rushdie were among the signatories to the support of OWS. This changes things somewhat for me. Not entirely; but the issue has broadened for me.
I did not read Rushdie's book, so I cannot really comment about his involvement there; but Atwood, Walker and Chomsky have been, for years, near the top of my list of Authors whose books I wouldn't read if they were the only written works left on this earth.
I had seen only one small part of the OWS movement; and some of their gripes, certainly not all of them, seemed quite similar to the backlash against Obama and Congress exhibited by the TEA Party. Albeit the TEA party actually HAS plans of action other than mere anti-government demonstrations. A saner, more organized and polite group to be sure.
Certain OWS crowd members, when interviewed by the media, appear way too boorish and ignorant for my liking; but so far I had thought that was essentially a function of tactical selection by the interviewers. It appeared that some had been deliberately chosen BECAUSE they acted like idiots.To me, they did not seem to be representative of their demonstration; in much the same way as Jay Leno selects the ultra stupid for his "Man on the Street Interviews". Also, in much the same manner as "The Jerry Springer Show" selected "room-temperature-IQ" participants which were hardly representative of main-stream America!
"A Utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government" does not seem to me to be where most of these OWS folks are coming from however. Historically, most of their ilk have been proponents of massive increases in both the size and scope of governmental planning and control over our lives. Like Joe Biden, who passionately believes that government should be everything to everyone.
I'm more inclined to believe that these demonstrators are supremely, and very personally "P.Oed" at a perceived Socialist President who turned "Corporatist" on them and did not go far enough with enlarging the scope and protections of big-government as they had wanted him to do.
Thanks for a good article gal!
My personal interjection would be that Chomsky et al recognize a good opportunity when they see one and are riding the coat-tails of this anti-Obama, anti-government, anti-Wall Street display for their own reasons.
Another thought as well; and one that Chomsky would be quite aware of, as he claims to be a guru of semantics; is that it is one thing to demonstrate against "Capitalism", and quite another thing to be demonstrating against "Crony-Capitalism".
The hand-holding taking place between government and corporations; the tax-payer bail-outs of these corporations mandated by government; the access to elected government officials, Congressmen/women, and Presidents bought and paid for by these corporations to the detriment of the will of the people, the waivers to Obama-Care granted to large companies and unions, are all issues which enrage many of us.
Perhaps the more well-heeled among the OWS demonstrators are fed up, like the rest of us, with artificially created "bubbles" and "market corrections" that decimate the values of pensions, retirement planning, and portfolios. Doesn't anyone else want to find out into whose coffers are money vanishes when it goes "Poof " out of our accounts?? Someone is getting rich off of our losses and it needs to stop NOW!
A logical target for our government-created misery would be Wall Street ! No surprises there ! They are a pathetic, opportunistic, greedy lot who have escaped the wrath of the tax-payers in this country only because they have been repeatedly protected from the consequences of their actions by the Federal Government..
We may disagree with the motives and the behavior of the OWS crowd (as well as decrying the participation of the Chomsky's of this world), but
Referencing the above article: I probably should have finished my statement! Lets' start with " …, but they are very unhappy with Obama, and just now, I'm really okay with that !!