Michel Foucault's "The Discourse on Language"

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Dude, Foucault effin' rocks. Why does Noam Chomsky have such a big problem with him? Is it just an ego thing? Some of these French 'postmodern' theorists or whatever they are, they're not really philosophers at all, are kind of lame. I guess they''re audacious, and they have these grand narratives on society, which are probably wrong, or just irrelevant. And they come off like intellectual hustlers. But Foucault seems better and more grounded and down to earth in his societal critique-ing. And he's right, or I certainly would tend agree. Language is bullshite. Oftentimes it's so devoid of anything honest or to the point, whether it's regular people giving their useless opinions trying to sound smart or maneuver themselves socially, or high-level academics gatekeeping any threats to their position with endless unnecessary, of I guess, bad-faith verbiage, language, and verbal speech and expression is just sort of weaponized, or at least leveraged all the time a a mater of course. That's why people go to college, so they can get good at doing that. We call that 'bullshite' on the street. Or just blathering idiocy, monkeys chattering in a tree. I guess that's why there's something respected about the laconic 'man of few words'. They don't score any effete intellectual points on the social scene, but they keep their dignity, and they stay above the fray that way. They don't sully themselves.