If encouraging you to think for yourself rather than feeling like you only deserve to repeat the thoughts of others is agressive, I’m not sure you are conversing in good faith.

Regardless, it bears repeating that you and everyone are capable of thinking for yourselves and deserve to do so. I merely suggested that you could do so by engaging durectly with a source before accepting what someone else tells you to think about it.

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We both know that that is not what I meant by aggressive.

I have no idea what you meant.

"This text in the screenshot is a rambling assortment of words that hardly deserves attention because it says nothing."

I think the point in that screenshot was pretty simple but go ahead and read the full essay if you need more context:

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/authoritarians.shtml

This essay was written many many years before Chomsky publicly endorsed punishing people that did not want to be injected by pharma's latest mystery juice.

You really should consider how this supposed anti-authoritarian came to such a paradoxical conclusion.