What He Said

I remember writing back there somewhere that philosophy can be dangerous when it touches a feeble or unbalanced mind. This may be why Professor Noam Chomsky may be keen on the kind of credentials that suggest academic tenure. Academic tenure is a kind of licence to have an opinion. It's meant to distinguish people with an objective and thorough understanding of sophisticated and often touchy concepts from the rest of us. As such, it's meant to save us from ourselves. And some of those early morning radio programs are not helping. We needn't feel left out. We may each speak with authority on our peculiar areas of expertise. I may have strong points to make within the realm of musical and artistic expression, but, once I venture over into more serious territory, it often slips into comedy. This is not initially deliberate and far from effective in advancing my hypotheses. One way to advance any hypothesis, regardless of critical analysis, is to resonate with what a large block of people already want to think. A lot of us distrust authority. Fertile ground for half-baked theories. I laughed out loud when Professor Chomsky walked off the Alex Jones program. Jones then turned around and called the man who has been flying in the face of US aggression since the 1960's and who was on the ground in East Timor to witness it firsthand alongside its victims a 'corporate shill.'
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