Noam Chomsky - Public Intellectualising
Public intellectuals are great. We should all be thinking of becoming one ourselves, like wot Michael Portillo is. Other public intellectuals, such as Richard Dawkins, Naomi Klein, Slavoj Zizek and Eamonn Holmes help to constuct our moral landscapes.
But Noam Chomsky is undoubtedly the greatest thinker of the modern age. His ground-breaking work, Manufacturing Consent, a romantic melodrama, set against the backdrop of a Yorkshire pie factory, is widely regarded as Chomsky's greatest intellectual achievement. Other important works include the imperishable The Cotton Runts, a sweeping epic of loss, hopelessness and futility, set against the backdrop of an England cricket tour.
In remembrance of those we are yet to kill
Three of Britain's best known journalists and political pundits, Melanie Phillips, Nick Cohen and David Aaronovitch, have held a dignified midnight candlelit vigil to remember all the thousands of innocent people yet to be killed by their relentless warmongering.
Following years of persistent aggression and bellicose rhetoric, calling for British bombs to be dropped on whichever country or political ideology riles their sensibilities, the three veteran writers observed a moments silence together to remember those men, women and children they would really rather have bombed into an early grave, had they had their way.
The purpose of the event was to act as a reassurance to the voiceless millions around the world that the UK political, corporate and arms manufacturing sectors will never forget about you. To all the thousands yet to die, Phillips, Cohen and Aaronovitch are thinking of you.
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