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chomsky's an idiot.
Idiot savant.
Just because you know everything about something does not mean you know a whole lot about anything else.
But Chomsky's big insight (That human grammar seems instinctive, but specific grammars are cultural) seems pretty obvios.
And quite a lot of folks who are very bright, also find themselves going down rabbit holes or through the looking glass when they forget their humanity.
Chomsky, like Kozinsky, is what happens when you combine brilliance with psychosis.