Keith Windschuttle in an article on Noam Chomsky (who has just recently received a Sydney 'peace' prize)
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2011/06/the-hypocrisy-of-noam-chomsky writes:
Since the European Enlightenment, a number of prominent intellectuals have presented themselves as secular Christ-like figures, lonely beacons of light in a dark and corrupting world. This is a tactic that has often delivered them followers among students and other idealistic youths in late adolescence.
The phenomenon has been most successful when accompanied by an uncomplicated morality that its constituency can readily absorb.
Windschuttle posits that Chomsky's chief contribution to global peace and morality is his overwhelming hypocrisy...I couldn't agree more.
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