Chomsky in "Greatest story ever told"

It's nice to discover, according to Noam Chomsky, that Nature has always been behaving along the same lines as today's Platonists. That makes me feel real good... and grateful to John Anderson at the Philosophy Department of Sydney University who made me a Platonist when I was 16 years old. I'm impatient to receive the Krauss book.

If you click here, you'll see that I've never been particularly enthusiastic about the antiquated professor of philosophy at Sydney... but he was quite good when he stuck to basic Plato and Socrates. Hopeless when he dared to tackle Aristotle in general and logic in particular.

Presidential duration

I don’t like to behave like an old fortune-teller who reads magic stuff from all around him.

Over the last day or so, my mind has been invaded constantly by a conviction that President Trump will not last for very long. My imagination comes to a halt well before the New Year, probably even before Christmas… but my mind balks on what might happen to him.

Meanwhile, let me turn to an old friend, Noam Chomsky. A journalist asked him: What effect would electing Donald Trump have?

CHOMSKY: It’s hard to say because we don’t really know what he thinks. And I’m not sure he knows what he thinks. He’s perfectly capable of saying contradictory things at the same time. But there are some pretty stable elements of his ideology, if you can even grant him that concept. One of them is: “Climate change is not taking place.” As he puts it: “Forget it.” And that’s almost a death knell for the species. Not tomorrow... but the decisions we take now are going to affect things in a couple of decades. In a couple of generations, it could be catastrophic.

If Trump wins, the human species will be in very deep trouble

Those words come from the US intellectual Noam Chomsky.

Click here to access a short article on this scary warning.