[lbo-talk] Chomsky comments on the interview

[Carrol Cox]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Seth Kulick quoted Noam Chomsky:
> 
> >It's interesting to compare this with interviews in journals everywhere in
> >the world, as far as I know, outside of the US mainstream; even in very poor
> >countries, even dictatorships.
> 
> Still, it's the best country in the world.
> 

There is a story in Boccaccio about two friends in Paris, one Christian
the other Jewish. The Christian had tried for years to convert his
friend. Then the friend had occasion to visit Rome, and the Christian
thought all was lost: after seeing Rome no one would convert to
Christianity. But when the Jewish friend returned, he was ready to
convert. Why? his friend asked. The reply was that an institution led by
such evil and corrupt people would collapse if it were not true.

Most students were never able to make sense of that story. 

Carrol