Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Idiot savant.
Just because you know everything about something does not mean you know a whole lot about anything else.
But Chomsky's big insight (That human grammar seems instinctive, but specific grammars are cultural) seems pretty obvios.
And quite a lot of folks who are very bright, also find themselves going down rabbit holes or through the looking glass when they forget their humanity.
Chomsky, like Kozinsky, is what happens when you combine brilliance with psychosis.
Chomsky may or may not be a brilliant linguist. One assumes, since the government sees fit to give him grant funding. He is also, unfortunately, what Daniel Flynn calls an "intellectual moron", cognitive elites who are led by their ideological obsessions to embrace seriously stupid ideas.
He should have stuck to his own field, and not allowed himself to believe that brilliance in one thing means you're brilliant in everything.
And you are somehow more credible? No I think you have it exactly backwards! And your field is?
The difference, my dear dumbass, is that I'M not running around writing books and articles on politics and being praised by twits like George over there as the second coming of Plato. So the only credibility I need is the ability to quote Chomsky from the record.
And my field is slapping down oxygen thieves like you. Thanks for asking.