In this article, we see our crazy world through the 81 year old eyes of Noam Chomsky – the ultimate iconoclast. Without him sweeping away the intellectual debris that clutters up our minds, thinking solutions would be impossible. But don’t expect him to generate those solutions – that is not what most left wing intellectuals do. And that is also why the left has failed to take the gap during the post-2007 era to posit a real alternative to Neo-Liberalism.