Noam Chomsky Type Book Suggestions

[andyfox]

A very Zeno-like argument. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

["spaceman"Bryce]

Try "The Great Peanut Butter Battle" written by PHD Dr. Suess. Really a classic

[Shami GHC]

When you finish all the chomsky check out 'We are the poors' by Ashwin Desai for a little restoration of faith in social movements [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[MMMMMM]

I thiunk you may be exaggerating somewhat, InChoate, or have less than complete information, although it is true that he lived at Emerson's house for quite some time, and perhaps some of what else you say is valid. Thoreau only lived in the woods for two years and then returned to civilized life, back to schoolteaching, if I recall. That he may have found it difficult to quite make ends meet living in the woods does not invalidate his essential message. A he put it, living in the woods was 'an experiment'.

Anyway, the book's points are profound and ought to be an answer to much of the nonsense espoused by the doom-and-gloom leftists, as well as to much of the nonsense put forth by the holier-than-holy-super-righteous-conservatives.

[MMMMMM]

Bruiser, Thoeau's prose is among the most compact and brilliant in the modern English language--certainly among American authors, at least. Walden is a highly polished work. It is not 'old English', it is brilliant English--as hopefully you will see if you try it again at some point.

Maybe you were just too young when you tried to read it.

[jason_t]

This book



is fantastic and meets your criteria.

[Chris Alger]

You can buy shelffulls of books on these subjects from South End Press and Black Rose Books, both of which have extensive online catalogues. (Black Rose, for example, came out with a collection of essays called Filtering the News, various applications of the Chomsky/Hermann propaganda model to current topics). If you're particularly interested in the foreign policy Michael Klare is also good.

[Zeno]

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

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[Phat Mack]

These may not be what you are looking for specifically, but will help clense your palate:

The True Believer, Eric Hoffer. The Right and Left hate this book.

History of the War with Hannibal, Livy. The unrelenting tale of morons prosecuting a war lasting decades. As Zeno would say, "Very amusing!" (May be in your public library under the name: History of the Second Punic War, or some such.)

The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman. What happens when terrorists and subversives threaten the status quo? WWI!

Enjoy.

[wacki]

Phat Mack,

I enjoy reading your posts. The quality of information in your posts tend to be very high. May I ask, what do you do for a living/what do you study?