Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

For some strange reason this memory has just popped into my thoughts.

Years ago, when I was at college I was putting up a display with my tutor and we got around to discussing whether it was better to use more, or less, blu-tac when attaching quite heavy mounted photographs to the wall.

'The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.' –Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.

I've always been interested in what Chomsky has to say ever since I read the transcript of one of his TV interviews in which the answer to one of the questions was something like, 'I don't know, I'm not interested...I'm not bothered.'

I frequently don't agree with what he has to say, but he's always interesting and challenging.