Saturday interview

Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'

   Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84,
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   is: what do we strive for in developing a social order that is
   conducive to fundamental human needs? Are human beings born to be
   servants to masters, or are they born to be free, creative individuals
   who work with others to inquire, create, develop their own lives? I
   mean, if humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be … a
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   Does he think that in all these years of talking and arguing and
   writing, he has ever changed one specific thing? "I don't think any
   individual changes anything alone. Martin Luther King was an important
   figure but he couldn't have said: 'This is what I changed.' He came to
   prominence on a groundswell that was created by mostly young people