I get kicked out of the best places. Sometimes I insist upon it.
At a party in college, a friend got into a political argument with the hostess. It got hot and she demanded he read Noam Chomsky. None of us really knew shit, so he retorted with some garbage about New World Order kooks and, well, things got hotter.
She exiled him from her apartment, but I suppose I couldn’t be left out of the fun, so I got up and charged out in “solidarity.”
Although drinking and ego were the driving forces that night, I maintain a mindset that I don’t want to occupy spaces where my friends are unwelcome.
In another moment of synchronicity, I spotted this interview on one of my favorite podcasts while that story was on my mind.
Chomsky is an interesting and intelligent character. Lex Fridman is an excellent interviewer amd gives him plenty of room to speak during this episode.
Lex Fridman #316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War