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View submission: Who comes close to Chomsky today?
There's plenty of people who share Chomsky's political positions, and even some of his eruditeness on US foreign policy. But no-one that comes close to him as a person. He's a once in a lifetime genius level polymath.
Comment by HighlanderAbruzzese at 02/02/2025 at 13:51 UTC
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This. We should never look to a copy, but search for someone that embodies and espouses the ideas and ideals that made Chomsky who he was. Sadly, he was a person of his time. Now, there is way too much media posturing and self promotion that, at least for me, seems suspect. But as someone pointed out, it’s tough to find an academic today that has such a wide and deep knowledge base to draw off of.