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The academy is probably more anarchic left these days, really. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 25/08/2017 11:09:19 PM

Chomsky et al seem more popular among leftist professors in college for the most part. At least, that was my general perception before Charlottesville, where everyone and their mother decided free speech was a terrible thing, so maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe people just aren't listening to their professors. That wouldn't be anything new.

In any case, I wanted to take the opportunity to use LD's definitions to put him in the same group as Chomsky.

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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