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Sep. 5th, 2012 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI just went reading through Wikipedia articles about Noam Chomsky and his critics. It makes me want to keep learning more of history and politics. It makes me want to have the level of familiarity required to analyze arguments on both sides of major issues and make a reasoned decision.
But will that make a difference? What I really want to accomplish via an anthropology degree is to make a positive difference in the world. Will dissecting and arguing politics and history at a high level with academics and critics do that? Or would it be self-indulgent; amassing all this knowledge so that I could make excellent points and arguments that the vast majority of people will never hear or care about. Arguing with the general public on the internet is nearly pointless. Is arguing with opinionated cognoscenti better?
But will that make a difference? What I really want to accomplish via an anthropology degree is to make a positive difference in the world. Will dissecting and arguing politics and history at a high level with academics and critics do that? Or would it be self-indulgent; amassing all this knowledge so that I could make excellent points and arguments that the vast majority of people will never hear or care about. Arguing with the general public on the internet is nearly pointless. Is arguing with opinionated cognoscenti better?
