I don't really know much about the bloke, but I think I almost agree with you.
The other side of course is what I have already mentioned. I think it is almost soul destroying if you are the kind of person who sets out to try your best to make the world a fairer and better place, then 'the system' and sociaity makes it harder for you to practice what you preach. To speak up against the mesures the more wealthy take to aviod paying extra tax, and at the same time having these measures there to take advantage of, well I can sorta understand that. I think that we humans are very sheep like. What is Sociaty if not a group of people doing what we witness others doing? We can bring to mind many, many experiments that show how easily lead we are, how offten we sucumb to peer preasure, how easy it is for us to forgo our individual moral compass in favour of one that a person in authority tells us we should have. I guess what I'm saying is although I certianly feel that such actions you have highlighted for us are indeed hypocritical, I can understand how and why such hypocrasy occours, meh but then I'm a forgiving bloke. On 1 Dec, 15:00, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what has always irked me about Noam. If the system is as horrible as > he decries, then his aggressive use of it is either: > > A. blatant hypocrisy which undermines his rantings on the topic. > B. a conscious decision to profit from a system he believes to be evil, thus > calling into question his personal morals and ethics. > C. a combination of the two. > > Chomsky strikes me as one of those guys you see all too often in the GOP: A > flaming right winger who rants on the evils of homosexuality, making every > move to block legislation guaranteeing equality for gays, and then secretly > getting sucked off by a towel boy at the country club. It's all bullshit. > > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Heh quite something that huh. > > > Still I can't help but think that he is only taking advantage of the > > schemes open to one of his wealth in order to keep it, as the rest of > > his ilke do I guess. That it is incredibly hard to live a life bound > > by ones morality when all others in a similar situation to you take > > advantage of the system, and that if fair laws were intruduced and > > things like these tax havens simply did not exist so that a rich man > > paid his tax burden like the rest of us, then he would be more able to > > live live in an un-hypocritical way. > > > Although it is a good point well made, bloody hypocrit! Heh then > > again, point me out just one person who truely practices what they > > preach 100% of the time. > > > On 1 Dec, 13:17, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Noam certainly knows something about wealth and capitalism... > > > >http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/2912626.html > > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:39 AM, ornamentalmind <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > An interview with Noam that includes a deeper analysis of wealth, > > > > distribution and government than that found on corporate news: > > > > >http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=74.html > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > “I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the > > > > official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the > > > > media, textbooks, teachers and preachers” – Howard Zinn > > > > > On Nov 30, 7:47 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Brilliant Don! I concur, ditto. > > > > > > On Nov 30, 3:48 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > More wealth redistribution ideologuery. If the man knew about > > feeding > > > > > > the needy he wouldn't spout such non-sense. Meals on Wheels has > > > > > > nothing to do with Social Security. Community service, by > > definition, > > > > > > is local and supported by local businesses and private donors. SS > > is > > > > > > nothing but an enormous Ponzi scheme that soon will fail unless > > > > > > massive amounts of money are pumped into it. It is consumed by > > fraud > > > > > > and waste. This is what happens to enormous federal entities. > > > > > > Proponents of single payer HC should sit up and take notice. > > > > > > > Community service isn't subversive it is being phased out by the > > > > > > federal government. Our earnings are increasingly being > > confiscated > > > > > > and we have less to help our local citizens out. The money is > > being > > > > > > used to fund politicians pet projects and as bribes to get new > > > > > > colossal spending bills passed. See the New Louisiana Purchase. > > Mr. > > > > > > Chomsky has it backwards and I think he probably knows it. > > > > > > > -Don > > > > > > > n Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM, ornamentalmind > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Other than the obvious irony, how would you criticize this recent > > > > > > > quote by Noam? > > > > > > > > "Social Security is based on an extremely dangerous principle: > > that > > > > > > > you should care whether the disabled widow across town has food > > to > > > > > > > eat. The Social Security "reformers" would rather have you > > > > concentrate > > > > > > > on maximizing your own consumption of goods and subordinating > > > > yourself > > > > > > > to power. That's life. Caring for other people, and taking > > community > > > > > > > responsibility for things like health and retirement — that's > > just > > > > > > > deeply subversive." – Noam Chomsky > > > > > > > >http://www.zcommunications.org/zquotes/2600 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > Google > > > > Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]<minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > . > > > > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > > > groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]<minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.-Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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