In my last post I posited that 61 is not that old, because it is not that much older than I am right now. Well, Noam Chomsky is 96, and that sounds old to me! How will I feel about that when I am, say, 89, if I am fortunate enough to make it that far? Congratulations to Noam for being alive and kicking and, not only that, WRITING BOOKS!

Anyway, he has a new (ish, to me) book from 2024, and here is a brief excerpt posted in a blog called neuburger.substack.com.

Elites gonna elite, aka manufacture consent. We have enough knowledge, technology, and wealth on this planet to all live in relative peace and comfort right now if we could only get out of our own way. But perhaps it is “utopian” to think that our species of nearly hairless poop-slinging monkeys will ever be able to do that on any scale for any length of time.

Btw, the book is The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World.