RE: Re:
[{"sender": "jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]", "recipients": ["Noam Chomsky"], "timestamp": "Thursday, December 24, 2015 10:48 AM", "subject": "Re:", "body": ""}, {"sender": "Noam Chomsky", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:51 AM", "subject": "Re: Re:", "body": "This is the program David Marr initiated, developed by Shimon Ullman and others. Makes sense, and there are some interesting results. David was a friend, and we often discussed these topics. In fact, his famous three levels adapted a model from generative grammar. But there was always the fundamental problem I mentioned. Vision is an input system, crafting coherent images from lines, points of light, etc. Language is used for that purpose too, but it’s not what language is.\n\nThat fundamental difference, along with the fact that the principles involved seem quite different, has always been a stumbling block to seeking any link."}, {"sender": "jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]", "recipients": ["Noam Chomsky"], "timestamp": "Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:28 AM", "subject": "Re: Re:", "body": "thought you might be interested in a new version of the percentage agreement between stalin and\n\nchurchill. Saudi and Iran doing the same , dividing spheres of influence... it seems few people paying\nattention to palestinians . maybe next generation. - israel going further right it appears. I find that media\ninduced fear is driving world markets. . very odd. gas prices down nobody shopping, . hotel prices down less\ntravel. commodity prices way down, little building. luxury market decimated. no russians or chinese\n\nplayers. . still virtually zero interest rates. . borrowing not up, fear and paralysis. , (Iadd these topics as to\nthese at least, i can speak with a modicum of knowledge )"}, {"sender": "Noam Chomsky", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "12/24/2015 5:37:14 PM", "subject": "RE: Re:", "body": "Very interesting topics. Would like to hear more from you about them, when we have a chance. Is it worldwide, or\nmostly here?\n\nMy impression is that the fear is mostly in the US. There’s nothing in (much more vulnerable) Europe comparable to the\nVisa Waiver program (insanely targeting Iran, which has not been involved in terrorism, while exempting Saudi Arabia,\nthe source of almost all jihadi terrorism). Or Trump-style ban them all. Or Cruz-style carpet-bomb them. For a long\ntime, probably back to colonial days, this has been a very frightened country, maybe the safest in the world but also the\nmost frightened. Impressions.\n\nSometimes it’s quite weird. By accident, I took the first flight PanAm 103 after the Lockerbie bombing, together with an\nold friend, a veteran Middle East correspondent. It must have been the safest flight in human history. The plane was\nempty. We were bumped up to first class because there was no one there."}]