Noam Chomsky
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Linguist and political writer, born in 1928, whose American Power and the New Mandarins (1969), his first political book, argued against the Vietnam War and…
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"Speak truth to power" misdescribes the task: the powerful already know the truth (opens korrents.com)
“It is sometimes held that their responsibility is “to speak truth to power.” I’ve always found that troubling. The powerful typically know the truth quite well.”
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The responsible intellectual speaks with the powerless and learns the truth with them (opens korrents.com)
“The task of a responsible person — anyone who wants to uphold intellectual and moral values — is not to speak what they regard as truth to anybody — the powerful or the powerless — but rather to speak with the…”
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We live in a confluence of crises with no counterpart in human history (opens korrents.com)
“We are living in an era of confluence of crises that has no counterpart in human history.”
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"Speak truth to power" misdescribes the task: the powerful already know the truth (opens korrents.com)