Responsibility of Intellectuals
3 Quarks Daily led me to Noam Chomsky on The Responsibility of Intellectuals
I'm always uneasy about the concept of "speaking truth,"
as if we somehow know the truth and only have to enlighten others
who have not risen to our elevated level. The search for truth
is a cooperative, unending endeavour. We can, and should, engage
in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as
well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by
coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity
and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.
Noam gets his teeth into wars of aggression and torture and where the responsibility lies. He finishes positively.
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