The book is logical & evidenced based as you would expect from a man who is Emeritus Professor at MIT. His fields are Linguistics, Analytic Philosophy, History & Cognitive Science. He is very readable.
The first chapter looks at the responsibility of intellectuals. There are two types, conformist who support official policy & value oriented who are often dissident. You can probably guess which Chomsky values.
The second chapter asks who are the Terrorists? Well, all I can say is that I am shocked. The actions of successive American presidents, backed up by the UK make one ask "Who are the criminals? - Who are the terrorists?
The world we are living in now has been deliberately created by successive governments & politicians for years. The people with power have used it indiscriminately, pursuing policies, often illegal & self serving, which have caused great harm to people & whole countries. Thousands of innocent people have died as a direct result.
What really matters is not talk of freedom & human rights, it is actions that count & actions which show the real truth. Our politicians actions show that their political talk is at complete odds with their actions.
The thing is - we have allowed them to do this. For years. We need to become more questioning & more pro-active in researching & reading to find out the truth. The information is easily available in books & on the internet.
Brexit is a microcosm of this. We, the electorate allowed all of this to happen.
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