But that is also why I think there is this tenaciousness about it. (I almost said fandom. I'm an ass!)
I'm not really criticizing it so much. There's nothing I can do and it'll always go on with someone -- like Doug! People feel this way about Doug, too.
But, if I just say he's a yawn, what would have happened? I have to explain why I find he's a yawn for otherwise... Now I know I also have to be sure to say that I recognize how important he is to others so I don't tweak someone the wrong way. Not that I did you guys, just that I can see how not saying that would annoy someone.
At 01:11 AM 7/22/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>On Jul 21, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
>>K, you mentioned at some point that by the time you
>>read Chomsky's books, your response was a big ho hum
>>because you already knew pretty much all of what he
>>had to say and you didn't like his dull way with
>>words.. I get that but I assure you (and I'm speaking
>>directly from personal experience here) for an
>>American who feels something's out of joint a
>>person, for example, who senses that Washington's
>>support of Tel Aviv's most recent assault on Lebanon
>>is not quite right but who doesn't know why and gets
>>no help from the usual media outlets there is
>>nothing quite like the a ha moment when Chomsky pulls
>>it all together.
>
>Yeah, a lot of us already know the stuff Chomsky writes about, but
>hundreds of thousands of people get their first or second doses of
>critiques of the empire from his writing and lectures - all of it
>well-documented, intelligently laid out, eminently sane & rational.
>That alone makes him a national treasure.
>
>Doug
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