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A review by willowbiblio
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky
2.0
"Book banning is nothing new in the US and suppressing votes of the "wrong" people is as American as apple pie."
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I really didn't know what to expect beyond leftist sentiments when I started this. I think it was just too radical and Chomsky was near-vitriolic in his hatred (apparently) of the US that it was hard to hear beyond that. He also just kept repeating the same 3 things about Cuba, Israel, and Russia. Sometimes literally copying and pasting paragraphs several times. This didn't feel like a hot take to me. It relied a lot on assumed knowledge of niche political terms and events so at times I found it quite hard to follow. Maybe I need to read something a little more beginner friendly, but this made me feel mostly bored.
I did appreciate his near-constant refrain that we have to focus on climate change, he's right about that. His smug predictions about Russia v. Ukraine were totally wrong and it made me chuckle to see him not really acknowledge that but continue on the "America is evil" rant. To make it abundantly clear, I don't agree with that sentiment.
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I really didn't know what to expect beyond leftist sentiments when I started this. I think it was just too radical and Chomsky was near-vitriolic in his hatred (apparently) of the US that it was hard to hear beyond that. He also just kept repeating the same 3 things about Cuba, Israel, and Russia. Sometimes literally copying and pasting paragraphs several times. This didn't feel like a hot take to me. It relied a lot on assumed knowledge of niche political terms and events so at times I found it quite hard to follow. Maybe I need to read something a little more beginner friendly, but this made me feel mostly bored.
I did appreciate his near-constant refrain that we have to focus on climate change, he's right about that. His smug predictions about Russia v. Ukraine were totally wrong and it made me chuckle to see him not really acknowledge that but continue on the "America is evil" rant. To make it abundantly clear, I don't agree with that sentiment.