[Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book 01] • Chomsky for Beginners by Cogswell, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Coverpage Titlepage Copyright Contents Introduction

“Noam WHO?” Why haven’t you heard of “the most important intellectual alive”? Chomsky’s two careers

The File on Chomsky: A Biographical Sketch

Growing up during the Depression His uncle’s Kiosk in New York College drop out On a kibbutz in Israel Speaking out against Vietnam

The Shoulders of Giants: Antecedents to the Thinking of Chomsky

Plato Rene Descartes Jean Jacques Rousseau Wilhelm von Humboldt Karl Marx George Orwell The anarchist tradition Zellig Harris A note to the Reader

LINGUISTICS

What is Linguistics? The evolution of Linguistics Linguistics as a science Universal generative grammar Evidence that generative grammar is innate Is grammar learnable? The infinite variety of language What is the nature of the original state? Chomsky on Skinner and Behaviorism

Noam Chomsky and the MEDIA: Can You Believe What You See and Hear?

Necessary Illusions: The science of propaganda What is the function of the Media in a Democratic Society? Engineering consent Walter Lippman Reinhold Neibuhr Recap of Chomsky’s view The Targets of Propaganda The Threat of Democracy How does “ownership determine content”?—The Propaganda Model Filter #1: MONEY—“The Media of Influence” Filter #2: ADVERTISING—How does that distort the news? Filter #3: “EXPERTS”Who do they work for...and why do the same ones keep popping up? Filter #4: “FLAK”— Who writes all those Letters-to-the-Editor? Filter #5: ANTI-COMMUNISM—creating a Bogeyman Concision: How “sound bites” are used to kill opposing viewpoints Keeping the herd in line Don’t take Chomsky’s word for it—check it out yourself! What are they hiding?

Chomsky on POLITICS

Chomsky’s first hand experience with The Censor Why doesn’t the news compute? The myth of the Classless Society The myth of the Free Market system Welfare for the Rich—How it works Uncle Newt’s double standard “National Defense is a sick joke.” Colonialism, then and now Foreign Policy: Friendly Dictators and Client States The real New World Order—how it started The real objective of the New World Order “Corporate interests”/“American interests” History—one or two things they forgot to tell you Coming home to roost

Chomsky on Fighting Back: What Can One Person Do?

Taking Responsibility—What can one person do? Intellectual self-defense

INTERVIEW with Noam Chomsky INDEX