ChomskyKnows

About me:

MY DAILY LIFE...

White, professional male, never married, no children, have 2 cats, and am child and pet-friendly. I go to work, drink too much coffee, listen to too much talk radio, come home and make too much spicy stir fry or maybe a big old sammich, pet my cats, watch Keith Olbermann, Family Guy, or maybe Jon Stewart, and call it a day. FOXNews is permanently removed from my channel line-up (I wish I could permanently remove it from history). If I happen to see it on somewhere, I usually start to yell at the TV. Other days I go to the book store, the gym, or shopping somewhere. I love trips, travel, leisure, games and frivolity...Yeehaw muther trucker.

WHAT WILL LIFE BRING IN 2009?

Will Obama repair our morally bankrupt reputation and save us from the economic black hole created by Bush and the GOP? Will I get around to writing that great American novel? Will the Harlem Globetrotters play basketball with Robots on Gilligan's Island? Will that guy on Prison Break ever get out of that air duct? Will Roy Schieder fly to Jupiter with a bunch of Russians? Oops, sorry that's 2010...Or will I just drink more coffee and pet my cats again? Wait, go back to that air duct thing...wouldn't it be great if the prison break guy met up with a different guest star in the air duct each episode, helped to solve their problem and learned a life lesson along the way? Is that show even still on? Why am I not writing for Hollywood right now? Maybe he'll meet up with Jack Bauer and get him to quit yelling "EVERYBODY DOWN!!!" every 5 seconds...

MORE ABOUT ME...

I came up through life very poor, grew up a latch-key child of divorce, and improved the hand I was dealt the hard way (by cheating off the Asian kids in math class). No, by working my way through college. I went to film school, have a BA in Philosophy, PolySci minor, with a smattering of Psych classes. I was heading back for a Masters but ran out of money and didn't want to get buried under student loans, so I got out into the real world and helped form a small company in which I’ve worked for well over a decade. Already paid off my house and am looking for another one. I find Ohio (as well as the whole country) to be a bit too red of a state (even considering the results of the election), but it's where I work, so there...I write a lot and have very strong streaks of independent and analytical thinking (I don't follow the herd). I'm a cynic but define that as "disappointed idealist". I'm sad that George Carlin is dead but happy that Rush Limbaugh died recently. What? He didn't? D**n it!

A PARTIAL LIST OF THINGS THAT MAKE ME WANNA TURN THE GUN ON MYSELF...

Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Republicans, FoxNews, corporate welfare, Jar Jar Binks or any mention of "midichlorians", the phrases "touch base", "think outside the box", "win-win", "logistics", "synergize", people that have their CAPS LOCK key stuck, people that use "to" instead of "too", "your" instead of "you're", "their" instead of "they're" or "there" (and so on...), a-holes at the mall that talk into bluetooth headsets (where the h*ll do you think you are...on stage at a Madonna concert?), the Snuggie, people that receive phone calls and actually talk on them during the movies (should be shot is the end of that sentence)...

NON SEQUITUR STUFF I DIG...

Drinking coffee creamer right out of the bottle. My mom. The sound of waves in the ocean. When bad things happen to bad people (like Ann Coulter getting her jaw wired shut – that really happened recently – oh my freaking god it was funny). Gandhi. Will Ferrel. Spicy horseradish. When the ref gets bowled over at the football game and his hat goes flying up in the air. When the cast tumbles over the fruit cart during the chase scene. Fishnet stockings. When that Iraqi journalist dude tossed his shoes at Bush. Jokes about Governor Blagojevich's hair. Jokes about Joaquin Phoenix's beard. Jokes in the format of "such-and-such called, they want their such-and-such back." Pizza...now who could possibly hate pizza...

THINGS I AM NOT...

A sports fan, gun nut, nationalist...basically red-blooded American jar head male stuff like that.

WISDOM GLEANED FROM RELATIONSHIPS...

Despite the tomfoolery in this profile, I've had a lot of pain in my life. I've had good, bad and ugly relationships and have learned these very important lessons. 1) never take someone you love for granted. 2) chemistry can be more important that commonality -- you can have a massively long list of identical interests (even down to minutia), but personality can be greater than the sum of the parts. 3) always check your baggage at the door, no matter how much you have been hurt in life -- do not transfer anger from those scars onto someone else, ever. A great deal of human conflict stems from psychological transference issues from relationships and childhood -- someone hurts you, you come home and get angry at your partner for frivolous reasons, your partner gets defensively angry back, these can build up into deep resentments over time, and can eventually become destructive.

WHO IS CHOMSKY AND WHAT DOES HE KNOW?

ChomskyKnows is a reference to Noam Chomsky...American philosopher, cognitive scientist, political dissident, author, lecturer, MIT professor, father of modern linguistics and leading academic critic of US foreign policy and imperialism. Chomsky has been called the "most quoted living human being" and the "most important intellectual alive". The words "CHOMSKY KNOWS" come from a quote:

"The other day I saw the words CHOMSKY KNOWS scratched into the wall of a toilet stall. This is how word of Noam Chomsky tends to spread: you hear the guy, your life changes and you share the news however you can."

"While sitting in a café, I saw a young woman walk by in a denim jacket. On the back she had written with bright-colored markers the imperative, READ CHOMSKY."

I am also ChomskyKnows on: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay, XBOX, PSN, Joystiq, 1UP, Slickdeals, Flickr, Yahoo Messenger (banned) now ChomskyKnows2. If you have an aggressive, loud, obnoxious, in-your-face personality, are a right-winger, read books by Ann Coulter, or are a bigot of some sort, we probably will not be online friends. If you've read through this profile and think maybe "I think I might get this guy, he's cool", please get in touch and maybe we'll actually write that Prison Break episode for those no-talent Hollywood hacks (I don't actually watch that show)...

ON RELIGION...

Over the years I have come to understand that a belief in god is analogous to any other neurosis or mental disorder and that organized dogmatic religion tends to foster nothing more than behavior control and is generally destructive to world peace. You can look to many past and present wars and social conflicts as evidence. I agree with the Freudian “cosmic comforter” argument that most secular human beings desire a sort of surrogate parent when they become adults to ease their separation anxiety, and god fills that role. I despise fundamentalists, although some TV preachers, hypocritical as they are, especially Robert Tilton, are hilarious...

I believe that religion + time = mythology. I am an agnostic / soft atheist (lack a belief in god). This means I’m not completely closed to the possibility that a creator god could exist, I just lack the present knowledge of this god just as I lack knowledge of unicorns or fairies, and therefore dispense with those concepts. God as an ultimate, infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent and so on type of being I reject outright as a paradoxical or meaningless concept altogether. Humans beings are finite and cannot perceive or conceive infinite beings and such nonsense...

ON POLITICS...

The recent invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan were nothing more than mass murder. Pouring misery and death into nations you dislike and expecting a democracy on the other end is lunacy. Your silence is complicity.

ON GAMING....

FAVORITE QUOTES...

- Sic Semper Tyrannus (death to tyrants)
- No one can become rich enough to buy back their past (fortune cookie)
- If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it all (Noam Chomsky)
- Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship (Noam Chomsky)
- Government is the shadow cast by business over society (John Dewey)
- Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither (Ben Franklin)
- You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war (Albert Einstein)
- All that is necessary for evil to win is for good men to do nothing (Edmund Burke)
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable (Sydney J Harris)
- In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up (Martin Niemöller)
- Bros before Hos (Nelson, The Simpsons)
- Smell ya later (Nelson, The Simpsons)