A "Chomskyian" scenario?...
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A Chomskyian scenario or situation is one in which the principles of Chomsky's ideas apply and are descriptive of the way in which the forces at work play themselves out...typically in favor of those in power and to the detriment of those who are not...and typically involving some degree of cognitive dissonance for those involved (because of the discrepancies between doctrine and reality)...

Examples include:

• The Clinton Doctrine - U.S. foreign policy goals after winning the Cold War focused primarily on opening newly available markets to global capitalism. (e.g. NAFTA, Haiti) (this interpretion differs from the official version, which defended America's right to interventionism, dressed in a modern context and spoken with a Southern accent)


• The Domino Effect - The difference between its official and its internal versions...(see post on this topic...)


• The meaning of the word "democracy" - what it means to those in power and to the common people; see for example, the "crisis of democracy", or investigate its origins at the time of the founding fathers, or investigate its relationship with neoliberal economic principles...doing so reveals a discrepancy between how the public has come to understand the term and what it actually means in practice.

These are just a few examples of “Chomskyian” scenarios. His work is full of them, and I believe his ideas represent the pinnacle of critical thinking, and as such, deserve to be much more a part of American mainstream thought than they are at present…indeed, a Chomskyian notion in and of itself…

~ Suvian Quilmann