Helping People Persuade Themselves

In an interview titled, “ On the European conquest of most of the world” Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned political thinker and activist, shines some light on his great demand as a public speaker and his attributions to this persuasion: “ As you know from having heard me speak, I’m not a particularly charismatic speaker, and if I had the capacity to do so I wouldn’t use it. I’m really not interested in persuading people. I don’t want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I’d like to do is help people persuade themselves. I tell them what I think, and obviously I hope they’ll persuade themselves that that’s true. But I’d rather have them persuade themselves of what they think is true. I think there are a lot of analytical perspectives, just straight information that people are not presented with. The only thing I would like to be able to contribute is that. I think by and large audiences recognize that. I think the reason people come is because that’s what they want to hear. There are many people around the country, all sorts of people, who feel that they simply do not have access to an awful lot of information, analysis, interpretation, that is relevant to understanding the world, and I think it’s a very healthy reaction to try to gain such access.” Bravo Chomsky, you certainly are using your ethos to persuasive uses. Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive, and therefore, anything he say's about anything requires the public to pay attention. The pic is none other than 'El Presidente of Venezuela' Hugo Chavez holding what the world should be reading, Chomsky's: "Hegemony Or Survival America's Quest For Global Dominance".

visit to see Chavez on Chomsky here on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WX64O8S1U