MIT, 2024. At 95, Noam Chomsky can no longer speak or write. The tools that challenged empires, gone. His student visited, tears falling: “Your voice is silent now”. Chomsky typed slowly, one finger: “I spoke. Now you must”. The student looked at shelves holding sixty years of truth: “What if I’m not strong enough?” Chomsky smiled, pointed to a photo – himself at 25, terrified before his first lecture. Typed again: “I wasn’t either. But silence is louder than fear”. That student now teaches, keeps Chomsky’s photo on her desk. When students doubt themselves, she shows it: “He lost his voice. We became it”. Some legacies don’t end when the body fails.
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