Hey Kuan – and Kerry, wouldn’t it be a riot to get Noam Chomsky on This Old House?!
With tongue firmly in cheek. I could just see it....
Norm Abram: "It looks like the electrical wires need replacing."
Noam Chomsky: "There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."
Norm Abram: "Okay. How about we bring the wires up to code. We don’t want this old house to burn..."
Chomsky: " The U.S. will not permit constructive programs in its own domains, so it must ensure that they are destroyed elsewhere to terminate " the threat of a good example".
Norm Abram: "If you say so, Dr. Chomsky. Well, we need to fix the front gate too."
Chomsky: " The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. "
Norm Abram: "I was just thinking that. Perhaps we can go to the local Ace Hardware, one of our sponsors, to get a good value on some building materials."
Chomsky: "The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy."
And so on... :p
