Neo, Chomsky, and Misfits in General
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines every-body is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”
So says Noam Chomsky, and I concur.
I, for one, find it disturbing that I have to look over my shoulder to make sure the coast is clear before I voice any discomfort about our country’s killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq. I find it eerie that I have to speak in hushed tones about the driving force of our economy — greed — being a vice. I find it disheartening that the two “options” we will have to choose from in November merely represent different sides of the same corporately-owned, sabre-rattling coin.
Seeing the Matrix from without rather than from within is rather surreal and Orwellian.
Now if I could just remember this week’s official position on whether Oceania defeated Eurasia, or if it was the other way around….
Kojak said,
February 28, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Wait… I’m confused. Didn’t Michael Douglas say, “Greed is good?” Are you saying it’s not? What kind of debased, half-baked notions are you espousing!?
The Pundit said,
February 28, 2008 at 8:22 pm
As much as it pains me to disagree with Gordon Gecko, Kojak, I must humbly demur. I am a Durdenite through and through (sorry, The Dane, but I take Tyler more seriously than you seem to).
Kojak said,
February 29, 2008 at 1:19 am
Pastor Tyler as I prefer to call him. (Although… I’ve never thrown a punch in my life.)