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>Saul:
>
>Funny that you bring up Chomsky in this "NOTHING WORSE" context.
>
>Do you know why there even is a "Chomsky" in the first place?  Why is this 
>particular man so well known and thus in a position to be so revered?
>
>This fellow was catapulted into the fame (and the all-so-important 
>say-what-you-want MIT tenure) which permits him the relative luxury of 
>impressing his personal "ideology" on the world precisely because he held out 
>the palpable opportunity for "controlling human communications."  All of it.
>
>Yup, Chomsky (or at least his "sponsors") is (are) one of the original "MIND 
>CONTROLLERS."  Yikes! <g>
>
>He offered the CIA (a reasonable substitute name for the folks who paid for 
>ALL of the work on linquistics and other "programming" techniques . . . 
>including such sundries as LSD and "graphical user interfaces" during the 
>formative 1950's) a *very* juicy and tantalizing potential -- an ultimate 
>"grammar," which was, it was hoped, "hardwired" into us all.
>
>DEEP GRAMMAR.
>
>Now, as you recall, "grammar" is simply another word for "magic" (as is the 
>word "glamour") and, thus, the Medieval handbooks for "magic" are still 
>referred to a "grimoires."  (OED: a magician's manual for invoking demons, 
>etc.)  Say the "magic" word.  Open sesame!  Abracadabra!!
>
>DEEP MAGIC.
>
>(Reminding us that the "ideologues" and the "occultists" are really the same 
>"Faustian" bargaineers -- just wearing their hats backward.)
>
>If (which fortunately for us all, since Chomsky himself admits that he was 
>100% wrong) you could actually find a "deep grammar" in human-beings, then it 
>would only be a matter of engineering to discover how to "program" us all.  
>Find the C++++++ . . . of the human mind, write the code, down-load it and 
>presto . . . CONTROL.
>
>Or, as Marvin Minsky (who is currently working on "programming" emotions and 
>who is still at MIT's Media Lab -- supported entirely by large grants from 
>"communications" companies) put it at that momentous 1955 MIT conference when 
>Chomsky's "deep grammar" thesis first burst onto an excited world-stage, 
>"Perhaps all human problems are just engineering problems.  With the right 
>engineering tools, we could potentially erase all these problems."
>
>Nice guy.  Warm and concerned fellow.  Only wants to end human suffering.
>
>Hmmm . . . will the ironies never cease?
>
>Best,
>
>Mark Stahlman
>
>
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