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it's pretty much a no-brainer now that Chumpsky was a anachronistic (not to be confused with "anarchistic"!) determinist tool... still pushing this retrograde Generative Grammar like several decades after theorists like Sapir, Worf, and Wittgenstein nailed the coffin of determinism, at least when it comes to linguistics. But I know... anything goes in US academia.

Back in the hazy-minded '60s you could make epistemological corpses walk, just like them retrograde imperialist anthropologists did. You could also go full Castaneda or McKenna without anyone criticizing your bullshit... aaaahhh sweet '60s when Berkeley still costed a penny and you had either a dopehead or a full Nazi as Chair of the faculty! ;)