When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

The couple had two daughters Aviva (b. True there are lots of other things I don't understand: the articles in the current issues of math and physics journals for example. Admittedly that may be my own limitation.

He has been described as a prominent cultural figure and he was voted the "world's top public intellectual" in a 2005 poll. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7 1928) is an American linguist philosophercognitive scientist logicianhistorian political critic and activist. After the publication of his first books on linguistics Chomsky became a prominent critic of the Vietnam War and since then has continued to publish books of political criticism.