re: #108 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

That’s like saying that Darwin’s theory of evolution is clever, but what else did he do.

Chomsky completely reformed both linguistics and theory of computation; without his theories, programming would be far, far behind where it is now.

In addition, before he got ultra-crunchy, he had completely pertinent political points. His debate against Buckley was important.

He came up with the notion of “Freedom from” vs “freedom of”: freedom from hunger, fear and exploitation, the sort of things that Free Market purists do not seem to care about in the least.