{"id":40852,"date":"2018-11-23T07:09:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40852"},"modified":"2018-11-23T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:09:45","slug":"noam-chomsky-turns-90-how-a-u-s-anarchist-has-more-than-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40852","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cThe person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can\u2019t justify it, it\u2019s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don\u2019t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Noam Chomsky<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On December 7, 2018, Noam Chomsky turns 90 years old. In a 2013 Reader\u2019s Digest\u00a0<\/em>poll of \u201cThe 100 Most Trusted People in America<\/a>\u201d (topped by Hollywood celebrities), Noam Chomsky, a self-described anarchist, ranked #20 (behind #19 Michelle Obama but in front of #24 Jimmy Carter). Given that anti-authoritarians throughout U.S. history have been routinely shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and assassinated, Chomsky\u2019s surviving and thriving are remarkable.<\/p>\n

In the early 1960s, when few Americans were criticizing the U.S. government\u2019s war in Vietnam, Chomsky was among the first to challenge and resist it. He risked prison time and the loss of an academic career in linguistics in which he had become highly esteemed for his groundbreaking contributions. For more than a half century, Chomsky has used his platform to challenge all illegitimate authorities, including the U.S. government and oppressive regimes around the world. He has voiced a consistent contempt for elite rule\u2014for its atrocities as well as for its subversion of working-class autonomy.<\/p>\n

While Chomsky abhors any hero worship\u2014especially of himself\u2014he does value what can be learned from human experiments in living. In this spirit, examining Chomsky\u2019s life has value for anti-authoritarians seeking an understanding of how to survive.<\/p>\n

Chomsky knows full well that luck has been a major factor in his beating the odds, but even great luck is not enough for a U.S. anarchist to survive and have a profound impact. Chomsky also possesses extraordinary intelligence, Spinoza-like rationality, and great wisdom about survival.<\/p>\n

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Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived Photo Source cloud2013 | CC BY 2.0 \u201cThe person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can\u2019t justify it, it\u2019s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don\u2019t really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6023,2216,2860,23181,5493,1880],"class_list":["post-40852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anarchist","tag-anarchy","tag-authority","tag-bruce-e-levine","tag-counterpunch","tag-noam-chomsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40853,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40852\/revisions\/40853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}