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Every time I heard him speak - I can't resist comparing him to the average American talking head and how shallow, ill-informed, ill-read, confused, and wrong they are in comparison. It's very low-hanging fruit I know - but they the sort of people that are admired by the public for qualities they don't actually have.
Also - Chomsky speaks better than most pundits (etc) write.
Almost like he's a professional linguist or something
It really is his most underrated stat, his ability to disseminate information in a way that makes it easily digestible.
A lot of "thinkers" seem to actually believe that clarity and concision are bad.
Yeah I have a book called How the West Came to Rule which is supposed to be a comprehensive theory of the global development of capitalism from a non-western, non-eurocentric perspective. Pretty cool premise but the thing is almost completely inaccessible. I expect books on politics and economy to take a bit longer, to be read more carefully, but as a strong reader, I should still be able to read the damn thing