Noam Chomsky - Early Life and Influences

[@robertpirsig5011]

Looking at chomskys childhood, it's easy to see why he became a dissident. Incredibly bright man too. I feel smarter listening to him.

[@HkFinn83]

I’m just as interested in his dad’s story: comes to the US as an immigrant who couldn’t speak a word of English, works in a sweatshop, quickly becomes a scholar at Johns Hopkins University. What an incredible story that’s just sort of elided here.

[@medievalmusiclover]

Great interview to a great and brilliant MAN. Thank you for posting. 😀

[@arnav257]

Noam Chomsky is evidence that autodidacts can shake the conventional substructures of society and point to all things more reformed.

[@stephenwallace8782]

Read "The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class"

[@maurice1955December]

KZbin they say, has over a billion users One hopes a % come this way.

[@Inhumanform]

One his best interviews. Very underrated.

[@itsostensiblyimpartial.7404]

He is brilliant, I like his linguistic theories.😊

[@jameswall6270]

Noam for British PM, please

[@Jwtrucking15]

No stop!! America badly needs his insight and wisdom...but then again Chomsky belongs to nobody, his knowledge should be accessible to the entire world.

[@itsostensiblyimpartial.7404]

Absolutely right.

[@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21]

Thank you, 01 Love

[@prot07ype87]

*Hmmm... today, I will check Noam Chomsky's "early life" section on Wikipedia.*

[@kenhut6304]

thank you

[@akshaypuradkar1568]

which interview is this? interviewer? date?

[@bigbackbehaviour]

Phillip Adams, Late Night Live, 2011 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKeUlnWcap19nKs

[@billibob313]

Who is the interviewer please ?

[@marble296]

billibob313 he's an Australian radio host. I forget his name

[@robertpirsig5011]

It's a great interview. A more personal side of noam we rarely get to see.

[@bigbackbehaviour]

Phillip Adams

[@wovokanarchy]

Noam's father worked in a sweatshop, learned English, and in a few years got accepted into one of America's finest universities in the U.S. and managed to pay full tuition on horrible pay from a sweatshop?? How real is this???

[@edwardjones2202]

Who said he paid? Or what he paid? Or how selective JH was in 1920s? Why would he lie? I've read a million stories of immigrants climbing from scratch

[@wovokanarchy]

@@edwardjones2202 Rubbish. This entire narrative of an immigrant arriving with one dollar in their pocket and making millions is a myth. There were structures and support already in existence to give these people a leg-up over immigrants who had no support and whose lives were destitute for their remaining lives scrubbing toilets and digging ditches.

[@Samb1600]

interviewer needs to pull the mic outta his nostrils

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

Samb1600 It’s not from his nostrils, but from the hairs in them. Blokes need trimmers.

[@jsbart96]

Hahaha

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