Intangir
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Decided to re-read one of my geopolitical faves, 'Qui mène le monde?' (who rules the world?), and bask in old boy Noam Chomsky's glory.
And for those wondering, yes, we're intimate enough by now (in my head) for me to affectionately refer to him as familiarly as ''old boy''. I've read almost everything he's ever written and he's bailed my ass out so many times in cégep and university, from sociology to economy not forgetting history, psychology, even programming, that somehow linking whatever work I'm doing to some topic he touched on has become something like second nature, even if my subject doesn't outwardly matches the onus of his books.
I swear, if there was ever an old-school turn-based RPG (the best type IMO if the story and narration are done right) made about my life as a university student (the chances of which are low, admittedly), the action-selection menu would look a bit like this.
Fight
Defend
->Cite Chomsky (and watch high grades magically appear)
Items (mostly weed)
Jokes notwithstanding, that book is da bomb and really exemplifies the current paradigm shift from nationalized power, the old righteous pyramid scheme, to a more exploded, transnational regime based on a revised Bentham's panopticon and the continued crushing of the middle class across the world by a privatized, privileged elite.
And for those wondering, yes, we're intimate enough by now (in my head) for me to affectionately refer to him as familiarly as ''old boy''. I've read almost everything he's ever written and he's bailed my ass out so many times in cégep and university, from sociology to economy not forgetting history, psychology, even programming, that somehow linking whatever work I'm doing to some topic he touched on has become something like second nature, even if my subject doesn't outwardly matches the onus of his books.
I swear, if there was ever an old-school turn-based RPG (the best type IMO if the story and narration are done right) made about my life as a university student (the chances of which are low, admittedly), the action-selection menu would look a bit like this.
Fight
Defend
->Cite Chomsky (and watch high grades magically appear)
Items (mostly weed)
Jokes notwithstanding, that book is da bomb and really exemplifies the current paradigm shift from nationalized power, the old righteous pyramid scheme, to a more exploded, transnational regime based on a revised Bentham's panopticon and the continued crushing of the middle class across the world by a privatized, privileged elite.
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. It's weird because the 60s/70s humanist stuff is totally my jam and I never had any issues with his contemporaries ( Asimov, Bradbury, Lem, etc.). I might have to give it another try one of these day.
