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damien said:do you have a bet with someone concerning how many posts you can mention that on before this evening?
weeler said:I get to attend a private talk with him tomorrow, this makes me cool.
mazzyianne said:But some people I was sitting with just didn't understand what he was on about. Surely this negates the whole point of being a great thinker, if the only people who can understand you have 3rd level educations or are mad into reading politics, ie. a very small % of the population.
I think that a lot of the issues he talks about are quite complex, disentangling all the double talk of politicians and treaties takes a good deal of lingustic skill which he of course has in spades. But aside from that you are right he's not a popularizer ,a polemicist or a politcian. He's a hard core academic and deals mostly with the facts. I went to the talk last night,mazzyianne said:the 'private' talk consisted of 60 people 1 chomsky, 4 questions, 2 long answers, then he left. It was only half an hour long.
So if anyone feels like they missed out, you didn't.
The talk in UCD the other day was much more in depth, yeah, he's not exactly captivating, but he's got some good shit to say.
But some people I was sitting with just didn't understand what he was on about. Surely this negates the whole point of being a great thinker, if the only people who can understand you have 3rd level educations or are mad into reading politics, ie. a very small % of the population.
thad wrongcock said:
hugh said:Really? I wouldn't have thought there was much to not understand .... or was he talking about linguistics?
so what do these 1000 that attended each talk be at? How do they envision change coming about and are just who exactly are they waiting on to carry it out?
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