How many people know who Noam Chomsky is?
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Yeah, we learned about him in one of my psych classes.
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I do not know him personally so I can not comment on those matters.\n\nI do not know him professionally as I do not purchase his material.\n\nI know he seems to have a large influence on the more uneducated among liberals who seem to be prone to wasting money  (that they always piss and moan about not having)  on pretty much anything he produces that bashes the US government, the war, American society or the President.\n\nHe sounds like the typical capitalist who understands very well that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
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The first person I thought of was Gregor Mendel, but everyone already pretty much knew that plants were alive already, he just showed that they have genetics.
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100% of the population thinks that they have common sense.\n\n100% of the population thinks that no one else has common sense
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How? Read Chomsky for that.  Why?  Here are a few reasons.\n\nIt's a large (huge by European standards) country with few neighbors, and none of its same size.  It's historically rural, and thus it's isolation is compounded.  Imagine Romania, but the size of Europe. \n\nCommunities are unstable, movement is frequent, so social networks (and solidarities) are minimal.\n\n Finally, the automobile has created in the suburban areas a world where all social interactions are by choice: you never have to meet anyone you don't choose to, and so your ideas are rarely challenged.  \n\nSocial atomization has also allowed for unprecedented power to be vested in corporations and mass media responds to this.  People who are sociably atomized are also less likely to accept challenges to their self-perception.  The only inputs they receive are from the media, which feeds them a steady diet of how great they are, how they need to buy stuff, and how any problems they might have are individual weaknesses, not societal ill.  Consequently, and already extremely invidualistic culture is turned inward.\n\nPeople in the States are just like you: they just have now idea what's going on in the world, and are exploited economically to a degree that belies their relative affluence.  The social pressures (or perceived social pressures, since these don't actually come from their neighbors, but from what we think are neighbors are up to) to work longer hours, accept less pay and benefits, and believe that we've never had it so good are enormous.\n\nThis isn't countered, and the press is spineless, owned by large corporations, and of the same class as the 'left' Democratic party who actually believe in all this 'capitalist progress'/'what's good for GM is good for America' crap.  And since they've never had to do an honest day's work in their lives, have no clue the pressures working people are under.  And the press has shown with the Iraq war that they're too chicken to espouse any criticism unless it is first endorsed by the political establishment.\n\nWhich gets to my last point.  The cultural atomization of the US is re-enforced by 'patriotism'.  The belief that if you step out of line (ideologically) you will be ostracized as a traitor.  Politicians and press fear this more than anything, and so they re-enforce it by always trying to be at the front of some insane flagwaving parade, which just re-enforces this social pressure.  \n\nAmerica needs fewer cars, more face-to-face interactions, a  labor movement and press with balls, and mandatory visits to other countries to actually see how others live (preferably to see the people the government bombs).\n\nAll that said, the British Empire invented this system of blind imperialism (read Edward Said's 'Orientalism'), and it's been practiced throughout the world.  It's awfully convenient for people around the world to blame individual Americans for imperialism, when they live in nations where capitalists benefit just as much from the world system.  Don't be diverted by your domestic nationalists:  that's what led us in the States to where we are now.
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Charles Babbage.\n\nRead the artical here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_babbage
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So popular I don't know him.
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as far as i know, bill gates.
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Well, it's really difficult for me to explain what I know about UG Krishnamurthi.  For some reason he attracts the attention of the masses, even though he claims to have no philosophy of life or religion, and prefers to be alone.  He goes against the norm, against popular beliefs, against all that most of us have stood for.  But, even in doing so his biography topped the best seller chart in India for over nine months.  For some reason, I don't find any of this impressive or unusual.  For, it's usually men or women of this caliber that find the biggest following whether they want it or not.
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He is Jewish.  Talked about it in several of his books.
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John Nash. He's the subject of the book and movie, "A Beautiful Mind." Won Nobel Prize in Economics for the Nash Equilibrium.\n\nMartin Gardner. Regular contributor to "Scientific American."\n\nUnfortunately a lot of the math studied by most people predates the US, or was formed when the US was in its early days. \n\nI'm sure there are lots of American Mathematicians of note, but most of there work is way beyond most people's understanding or knowledge.\n\nIf you could Computer Science work withing mathematics, then there are more names to add, such as Knuth, Kleene and Karp (no association to the KKK.)
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2,649,377,941 people. just a guess.
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It seems like a little too specific question.  You should probably ask people who know him personally.
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http://www.newsflash.org/2003/05/si/si001609.htm\ntheres one dude.
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who the hell dosnt know who he is??
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i dont know google him there is bound to be some bio of him somewhere, whoever he is........
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Well his popularity depends on who you're asking. Needless to say the liberal media isn't polling anybody I know! I live in Houston where of course he's quite popular, but I also work for a Dutch company and I'm working in Malaysia right now. The people I encounter from many different countries and backgrounds seem to understand what's really going on in the world and aren't as critical of him. I think most people that they poll just are giving a knee jerk reaction. Nobody is neccessarily pro-war, but there is a time and a place and if Iraq wasn't it, I don't know what would be! But to get more to your question (?)I have to say no; we can't contradict him. We'd be much worse off with Kerry in office because he would be a tool for the UN and they've shown to be totally ineffective.