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0 pointspierrebai5y ago0 comments

This is the kind of Chomskyism that leads to nowhere.

You can take the criticism to the letter, so that "no other society" is true because the total of the exact characterization matches only one society, and is thus a tautology. Or you read it more generally, and then the claim that no other society is as indoctrinated is absurd.

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tehjoker5y ago

All societies are indoctrinated, but US society seems to think it isn't: that's the insight. Also, if you peruse the second link, he says things that are more concrete. I used a more general quote because it is difficult to give a strong argument in a limited space.

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tehjoker5y ago

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