edit: sources are unconfirmed - the Brazilian link I had up originally was taken down
edit2: sources now say he is alive
RIP to him, obviously we all have our criticisms but reading How the World Works in my mid 20s was literally my first real encounter with leftist ideas, the first crack in my worldview that the US was a moral leader marching everyone to a bright future.
edit: actually he’s still alive, EAT SHIT YOU TURBOLIB TRAITOR
I think it’s quite nice that Noam gets a chance to hear the nice things people will say about him after his death with all these early obituaries posted.
I think some people might wish that folks had said nice things to them before they died.
A Chomsky croaks a thousand times before his death, but the liberal croaks but once.
It seems to me most strange that men should prematurely publish obituaries, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
—Shakespeare
I’m going to have a drink in honour of Chomsky tonight. Not because he’s dead or anything but because he always sounds perpetually thirsty and my throat is getting dry just thinking about the guy.
Jose Santana who worked with Chomsky is claiming to have talked to his wife and that he’s fine.
