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Noam CHOMSKY Short Biography Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) Noam Chomsky is an intellectual, political activist,  and critic of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. One of the most cited scholars in history , Chomsky has influenced a broad array of academic fields. He is widely recognized as a paradigm shifter who helped spark a major revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind . Chomsky usually identifies as an anarcho-syndicalist or a libertarian socialist. He views these positions not as precise political theories but as ideals, that he thinks best meet human needs: liberty, community, and freedom of association. Unlike some other socialists, such as Marxists, Chomsky believes that politics lies outside the remit of science, but he still roots his ideas about an ideal society in empirical data and empirically justified theories. In Cho

"The Second Coming" , by William Butler Yeats               Listen: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/77066 Turning and turning in the widening   gyre,  the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Me re anarchy i s loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction , while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.  The Second Coming. Hardly are those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi  t roubles my sight: Somewhere in sands of the desert a shape of lion body and the head of a man , A gaze; blank and pitiless as the sun, it is moving its slow thighs, while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.  The darkness drops again; but now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,