Comment by freejazz

It did, but laymen will respond as laymen do, regardless. They already don't understand it, so they are just going to repeat their tautological end run... "well, whose to say we don't do the same thing... so therefor who is to say it is not doing the same thing as us?" When one of the first paragraphs is "Humans do not behave this way at all".

>The number of people who understand Chomsky's argument is not very many in the world.

I don't think the argument is inaccessible. Some people just don't want to hear things, that's not really unusual in today's intellectual economy.