Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But… - Noam Chomsky
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Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated. In fact even understanding insects is an extremely complicated problem in the sciences. So the actual sciences tell us virtually nothing about human affairs.
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Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born 7 December 1928) is an American linguist, analytical philosopher, cognitive scientist, political analyst, human rights activist and anarcho-socialist.
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Remember, every business firm, like even a mom and pop grocery store, is a market imperfection. A firm is defined in economic theory as a market imperfection introduced to deal with transaction costs. And the sort of theory is that the imperfections, the firms, are kinda like little islands in a free market sea. But the problem with that is that the sea doesn't remotely resemble a free market, and the islands are bigger than the sea; so that raises some questions about the picture. But these market imperfections, like a firm, or a transnational corporation, or a strategic alliance among them, this is a form of administering interchanges. And there's a real question about whether we want to accept that. Why, for example, should the international socioeconomic system, or for that matter our own society, be in the hands of unaccountable private tyrannies? That's a decision, it's not a law of nature.
"قصه يرويها "نعوم تشومسكي " في مقدمة كتاب قراصنة واباطرة تلخص محتوى الكتاب اذ يروى قصة قرصان وقع فى اسر الاسكندر الأكبر، الذى سأله، كيف يجرؤ على ازعاج البحر؟، "كيف تجرؤ على ازعاج العالم بأسره؟ ، فأجاب القرصان: "لأننى افعل ذلك بسفينة صغيرة فحسب، أدعى لصاً، وأنت الذى يفعل ذلك بأسطول ضخم، تدعى امبراطوراً ."
Mass non-violent protest is predicated on the humanity of the oppressor. Quite often it doesn't work. Sometimes it does, in unexpected ways. But judgements about that would have to be based on intimate knowledge of the society and its various strands.
