Why do you think it’s not?
I mean, it’s one of the 2 most famous dystopian novels on the planet. Brave New World and 1984. Hunger Games? Hunger Games doesn’t even get to be in the running, it gets to fuck off to YA flavor of the month land with the rest of it’s ilk.
So because you have friends with negative opinions of some random American businesspeople Chomski’s view that America is the sole source of all the world’s evils is valid?
You seem to have skipped some track in your logic chain there. I mean, what does some random kids not being able to identify a certain pop culture figure that until recently wasn’t big in kids media have to do with anything? Kind of self centered to declare them ignorant for not knowing the same characters you know.
And what does any of that have to do with Chomski’s known extreme bias? Dude’s a genocide denier solely on the basis that the genocide was done by a nation opposed to America and thus it had to have been invented by evil Americans forcing refugees to lie.
So because you have friends with negative opinions of some random American businesspeople Chomski’s view that America is the sole source of all the world’s evils is valid?
You seem to have skipped some track in your logic chain there. I mean, what does some random kids not being able to identify a certain pop culture figure that until recently wasn’t big in kids media have to do with anything? Kind of self centered to declare them ignorant for not knowing the same characters you know.
And what does any of that have to do with Chomski’s known extreme bias? Dude’s a genocide denier solely on the basis that the genocide was done by a nation opposed to America and thus it had to have been invented by evil Americans forcing refugees to lie.
Then you might want to pick someone who isn’t famous for his irrational hate.
It’s a major issue with all his works outside of the theoretical and one he gets called for regularly, his objectivity is nonexistent and he treats the US is utterly evil and the root of all bad things in the world. He denied the Khmer Rouge genocide because the perpetrators were a communist government, long after everyone else figured out that the refugees weren’t lying. He’s fairly infamous for his lack of objectivity and the leaps of logic he takes to make America at fault for everything, basically a Satan figure.
You’ll get plenty to scratch that ‘America bad’ itch but not really much that can actually be trusted. And if you can’t trust it, well, you might as well go on one of those subreddits dedicated to such complaining.
Chomsky is EXTREMELY antiAmerican, often to an irrational degree by either blaming America for everything or ignoring or even denying atrocities that aren’t connected to America.
He is not a trustworthy or unbiased source. He’s got a fixation and his worldview is entirely centered around that fixation, causing problems if you want objective information. The dude’s a genocide denier on the basis that America said it was happening and thus clearly America HAD to be lying. In this particular case, the Khmer Rouge.
He’s a smart guy. Do not trust him when he’s discussing history or current events
They are INCREDIBLY dependent on the narrator.
Narrators don’t do so well onscreen, especially not ever present ones.
And comedy in general struggles to jump mediums. Satire too.
The constant pause for sex scenes and fanservice killed the book for me.
They don’t add anything nor do they actually have a narrative purpose. It’s just every other chapter is ‘pause the plot, we need more tits’. Especially when he is resorting to dream sequences and flashbacks that are just there to add enough women to have a sex scene.
Jaws
The book is decent enough, needed more than a few subplots chopped, but the film is legendary.
And The Terror. The book is plodding and keeps stopping for random sex scenes. The miniseries is excellent.