Chomsky, who is a linguistics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a dissident voice of the rampant capitalist world. He does not subscribe to the doctrine that the behaviour of the United States is essentially benign if occasionally bumbling. Chomsky's view is so at odds with the image that most US citizens have of themselves that he has some explaining to do. Brute force in support of selfishness, to put it crudely. It has long been one of Noam Chomsky's central tenets that parameters of knowledge and information are fixed so that the acceptable limits of debate are controlled.
Consent is 'manufactured' and opinion massaged through control and manipulation of the media.
Intellectuals, the 'cultural lite', are essential to this process. They internalize and disseminate the ideological message and patrol the borders of acceptable argument. Chomsky's genius is in refusing to accept such boundaries and attempting to enlarge the discussion beyond the ditches dug by authorities. The control of information is the control of opinion is the control of society. For more than 30 years Chomsky has been harrying the purveyors of official history.