The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Independent Media Center

'All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.'
It should now be self-evident that Bernard Lewis and Noam Chomsky together, while
seemingly cogent opposites, in fact represent the class of counterpoint tunes of the Mighty
Wurlitzer which nicely bookend all public discourse between the artificial bifurcation of Right
and Left, Conservative and Liberal, Establishmentarian and Rebel, Totalitarian and Anarchist,
Consent and Dissent. It is the two antipodes of a fabricated Hegelian Dialectic to respectively
engineer both consent and dissent in order to sustain “imperial mobilization”.
Noam Chomsky himself argues the veracity of this observation in his own erudite manner:
'The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the
spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum
- even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the
sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions
of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.'
and yet, he just as willingly participates in it.
Thus, observe that Chomsky too echoes that there is a 'Muslim Rage', but instead of it being
deemed “irrational” like Bernard Lewis posits in his “vulgar propagandist” scholarship, Noam
Chomsky calls it a rational rage, a “blowback” to American foreign policy and the history of
American political aggression! See Chomsky's money minting booklet “911” by Seven Stories
Press; and how it was cobbled together in “The Closet Capitalist”, where the Hoover Institution
critic observed: “Chomsky’s marketing efforts shortly after September 11 give new meaning to
the term war profiteer. In the days after the tragedy, he raised his speaking fee from $9,000 to
$12,000 because he was suddenly in greater demand.”
While dissent which retains the core-lies of empire when vehemently critiquing its effects is
typical of all prominent controlled assets, in this instance of “arguably the most important
intellectual alive”, it would perhaps be more apropos to give it the same epithet that Noam
The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity 42 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim