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Title: Thinnly veiled propaganda
Review: What disappoints me and prompts me to write this review, is that the author, who is considered the "father" of modern linguistics, who proposes that language is an innate human characteristic and not something developed from blank memory, misses the point that built into the language would also be manipulative characteristics to be used by the aggressive and greedy...or the pacifist...to reach their ends. What I expected upon buying this book, was an in depth discussion of the innate nature of propaganda.Instead, what I read was no more than a thinly veiled media manipulation exercise. Chomsky exaggerates the facts in almost all his arguments in order to rally people against the US government's aggression, himself attempting to achieve his goal through propaganda.How our innate development of language is also linked chemically to all of our various innate characteristics such as aggression, compassion, greed, and love is what I was expecting. All in all a big letdown.
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