“This book makes me feel like there is nothing more vile in the world than the United States” Well then Chomsky got exactly what he wanted. Chomsky is an extremely smart guy who is a compelling writer and speaker, he makes plenty of reasonable critiques of the American government that by themselves are totally valid, but what he utterly fails to do is offer a balanced and unbiased account of the whole picture. There are plenty of prominent thinkers that have called Chomsky out for this. Again, many specific claims of his are reasonable, but he will cherry-pick examples to fit and support his overall anti liberal and anti American mission, a mission he has had for over 50 years, without ever giving credence to contrary viewpoints. Chomsky somehow continuously makes claims that anything bad that happens in the world is somehow the fault of the US, whether that’s China, North Korea, Iran, the Soviet Union, the Nazis, Cuba, or even the First World War. Somehow Chomsky gives every other nation in the world the benefit of the doubt but absolutely never does to the US, every instance of US foreign policy is malicious people scheming to operate in the most exploitative ways as possible and never even entertains the notion that just sometimes the US is run by people with sincere good intentions. He would attribute the evilness of the feudal Middle Ages to the US if it wasn’t totally delusional to do so.
I mean I’ve got this one on my shelf along with the Holy Bible and the Quran even though I’m an Atheist. You still swiping left?