The Anti-Chomsky Reader [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Well, finally a book to discredit Chomsky! (I keep on waiting for "The Anti Dalai Lama Reader" or so, as well, same authors perhaps.)
Anyway read this book if you haven't had enough of official state-propaganda, or want to close your eyes to any effort of changing THE SYSTEM to something more democratic and human. Naturally, Chomsky is not the Dalai Lama, and his linguistic theory is arguable; is there any on earth which is not?? But still, wouldn't you have him as president rather then this Texas Dwarf?

This figure from literature resembles Noam Chomsky as one who has attained a seemingly occult grip on the minds of his followers by calling good evil, and evil good. It is truly disturbing that such an intellectual fraud and hater of the truth should still be taken seriously by any informed and rational person; his dedicated following is easier to understand as a religious cult. By the law of attraction, Chomsky's hatred obviously resonates with many of the alienated and the disaffected.

The chapter Partners In Hate by Werner Cohn is particularly revealing. This meticulously document article exposes Chomsky's collaboration with neo-Nazi groups and individuals in France and examines this in the light of Chomsky's poisonous and rabid loathing of Israel. What is revealed here leaves one with a peculiar blend of revulsion, amazement and a certain chilling recognition.

The recognition is of the significant fact that hatred of the Jews has always existed among all nations and on all sides of the political spectrum, particularly in collectivist ideologies like extreme Nationalism, National Socialism and Communism. Nowadays it is becoming more prevalent amongst the Left in the USA whilst in Europe it seems to have infested a large segment of the political and media elites especially in France. Paul Bogdanor looks at Chomsky's war against Israel in his well-researched essay of that title.

Many explanations have been offered, like the emotion of envy because where ever they have enjoyed freedom, Jewish people have always excelled and have bestowed many blessings upon humanity, far out of proportion to their small numbers. A related view is that the cosmopolitan Jew threatened the idea of the nationalistic nation state. There is merit in all these, but a nagging suspicion remains that anti-Semitism might be rooted in something even more evil, something perhaps best left in the metaphysical realm. Please read The New Antisemitism by Phyllis Chesler to see how this vile hatred is spreading again.

There are those who deplore Chomsky's politics but hold his work as linguist in high esteem. The linguists Paul Postal and Robert Levine point out that his linguistic contribution is based on the same grotesque incoherence and contempt for truth and scientific standards as his political rants. This is in fact quite an amusing chapter and reminded me of that brilliant criticism of post-modernist abuse of the terminology of the natural sciences by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, titled Intellectual Impostures (Fashionable Nonsense).

Steven J Morris examines Chomsky's cunning propaganda in the Vietnam era whilst Anders Lewis discusses his romanticising of the third world and the chomskyan vision of Hanoi as the "shining city on the hill." Chomsky's vicious attacks against the witnesses of the Cambodian holocaust in the 1970s are equally revealing, since many of these witnesses were Leftists. This must have opened at least some eyes at the time.

The part of this book that I personally enjoyed the most, is Thomas Nichols in his essay Chomsky And The Cold War describing Chomsky's rage when the Wall came down, communism imploded and the USSR fell apart. So much for my personal schadenfreude ...

The book also deals with Chomsky's schadenfreude after the 9/11 atrocities and explores his role as the Pope of Anti-Americanism. And by Jove, it all becomes clear. I had often wondered about the particularly juvenile quality of anti-Americanism, but a look at Chomsky's lunatic ravings makes it all very clear. It also becomes clearer why individuals of a certain disposition would enthusiastically embrace this. It's an emotional thing, you see.

In this regard I highly recommend the illuminating book Anti-Americanism (L'obsession anti-americaine) by the French intellectual Jean-François Revel. The work of other French thinkers like Alain Finkielkraut and André Glucksmann are also worth consulting on this subject. I am thinking especially of Glucksmann's comments on the type of nihilism currently at large in the world. The focal point of this hatred is Israel and America. Many decades ago Ayn Rand described it well: Hatred of the good for being the good.

Peter Collier and David Horowitz have done a splendid job in compiling and contributing to the Anti-Chomsky Reader. Although I suspect that serious thinkers on the rational and decent Left are aware of his mendacity, Chomsky's intellectual poison is still spreading around the world and needed a thorough debunking. Although exposed many times before (exceptionally well by Christopher Hitchens), his lies have wide emotional appeal. To each their own, but one cannot but wonder whether his followers will ultimately benefit or suffer from this brainwashing. The book The Death Of Right And Wrong by Tammy Bruce provides a chilling picture of the intellectual elites on the Looney Left.

What happened to Grima Wormtongue? After the War of the Rings, Saruman tried to take revenge on the Hobbits in the Shire, accompanied by the grovelling Wormtongue. But the Hobbits overcame them and Wormtongue killed Saruman out of revenge for his harsh treatment of him. The Hobbits then finished off Wormtongue.

In David Day's book, A Tolkien Bestiary, Saruman's death is described in detail. First his body shrivelled to skin, skull and bones in his cloak whereafter a grey mist arose from it. For a moment, a spectral form hovered over the remains. Then it was blown away by a gust of wind. May it be so with Chomsky's falsehoods and distortions, his hatred of America and Israel, and his adoration of dictators and genocidal ideologies.