{"id":389294,"date":"2018-12-15T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/praise-for-americas-second-leading-intellectual\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T19:51:07","slug":"praise-for-americas-second-leading-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/praise-for-americas-second-leading-intellectual\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise For America\u2019s Second Leading Intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107944\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107944\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/5598986979_5457984394_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/5598986979_5457984394_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/5598986979_5457984394_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Andrew Rusk | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>\u201cIf you\u2019re not first, you\u2019re last\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Ricky Bobby\u2019s father, Talladega Nights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to hate from up close\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Michelle Obama<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It\u2019s very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can\u2019t fight the world alone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Noam Chomsky<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was all very well to say \u201cDrink me,\u201d but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. \u201cNo, I\u2019ll look first,\u201d she said, \u201cand see whether it\u2019s marked \u2018poison\u2019 or not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hours after almost everything I write (or even think), I come to detest the person who wrote the words. I do not often correct myself explicitly, although I try to overload what I do with the opposite from then on, until a happy liberal medium is struck. But this time I felt truly out of bounds in my criticism of the great Noam Chomsky, a man worthy of admiration and one of America\u2019s greatest heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Chomsky may only be second place in American intellectualism, but that by no means makes him worthy of the attacks I put upon him. Originally I had penned a piece that just proclaimed my praise for Mertz. But openly declaring love for someone (let alone another man like Mertz) seemed all too radical for me, even as I pretended to be the most radical person in the room. I therefore buried my love in useless hate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/14\/praise-for-americas-second-leading-intellectual\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Andrew Rusk | CC BY 2.0 \u201cIf you\u2019re not first, you\u2019re last\u201d \u2014Ricky Bobby\u2019s father, Talladega Nights \u201cIt\u2019s hard to hate from up close\u201d \u2014Michelle Obama \u201cThe beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It\u2019s very hard to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}