"Another reason for negative reactions to criticism of Chomsky is what I
refer to occasionally as ‘Ivy-league bias’. Imitation is a stronger
force in cultures than innovation. Everything goes more easily if we
imitate rather than innovate – so we buy our clothes at the same
department stores and eat out at the same chain restaurants. And when we
imitate people – wearing their jerseys, singing their music, repeating
their ideas – we are doing what most cultures do, copying people with
prestige and status. For example, reporters rarely innovate when
covering science, that is, they rarely come to their own opinion about
difficult material. Rather, they establish a set of ‘go-to’ experts to
cite. And those sets are populated largely by Ivy-league professors.
There is nothing wrong with that. I simply point out that it is common.
It saves one from the excruciating work of original thought".
Daniel Everett
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