Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Chomsky is no mere ego. We have met and talked numerous times over the past 20 years and, in my view, he is a genius. Genius, in the words of Montreal poet Irving Layton, is "simply the ability to see things the way they really are." And by what epistemology (worldview) are you defining things "the way they really are"? Surely a Marx, Calvin, bin Laden, Bush, all have their "ability" to perceive things (with total commitment) the way they think they "really" are......Layton's words appear to be somewhat vacuous.... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html