Ai Weiwei vs. Noam Chomsky
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ai Weiwei
1957 – present
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese government and its stance on democracy and human rights.
"I am always trying to find how to get the message through. we custom-made five thousand backpacks like the ones of those students to construct a simple sentence…"
Noam Chomsky
1928 – present
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
"I should say that when people talk about capitalism it's a bit of a joke. There's no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject…"
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