>> On Sunday, January 25, 2004, at 01:35 PM, Jon Johanning wrote:
>>
>>> All too often, radical groups develop in what I would call a
>>> hot-house
>>> atmosphere -- only talking and listening to themselves, only reading
>>> literature on an approved reading list, looking down on the rest of
>>> the world as ignorant, unenlightened, uninformed, etc., etc. They
>>> assume that their communication process must be one-way -- they need
>>> to communicate their truth to a world that doesn't yet know it, and
>>> that world should just shut up and listen to them.
>>
>> How different is this, really, from the Chomskyite belief that once
>> people know the facts (as we present them), they'll reach the right
>> conclusions?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> John A
>
> What's the deal with all the Chomsky bashing?
Fair enough--forget the Chomskyite part.
The question still stands.
All the best,
John A