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Chomsky Wants You to Wake Up from the American Dream<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If you\u2019ve just seen Michael Moore\u2019s\u00a0movie<\/a>\u00a0and are wondering how in the world the United States got diverted into the slow lane to hell, go watch Noam Chomsky\u2019s\u00a0movie<\/a>. If you\u2019ve just seen Noam Chomsky\u2019s movie and are wondering whether the human species is really worth saving, go see Michael Moore\u2019s movie. If you haven\u2019t seen either of these movies, please tell me that you haven\u2019t been watching presidential debates. As either of these movies would be glad to point out to you, that\u2019s NOT HOW YOU CHANGE ANYTHING.<\/p>\n

\u201cFilmed over four years, these are his last long-form documentary interviews,\u201d Chomsky\u2019s film,\u00a0Requiem for the American Dream<\/em>, says of him at the start, rather offensively. Why? He seems perfectly able to give interviews and apparently gave those in this film for\u00a0four years<\/em>. And of course he acquired the insights he conveys over many more years than that. They are not new insights to activists, but they would be like revelations from another world to a typical U.S. resident.<\/p>\n

Chomsky explains how concentrated wealth creates concentrated power, which legislates further concentration of wealth, which then concentrates more power in a vicious cycle. He lists and elaborates on ten principles of the concentration of wealth and power \u2014 principles that the wealthy of the United States have acted intensely on for 40 years or more.
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1. Reduce Democracy.<\/strong>\u00a0Chomsky finds this acted on by the very \u201cfounding fathers\u201d of the United States, in the creation of the U.S. Senate, and in James Madison\u2019s statement during debate over the U.S. Constitution that the new government would need to protect the wealthy from too much democracy. Chomsky finds the same theme in Aristotle but with Aristotle proposing to reduce inequality, while Madison proposed to reduce democracy.<\/p>\n

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Chomsky Wants You to Wake Up from the American Dream If you\u2019ve just seen Michael Moore\u2019s\u00a0movie\u00a0and are wondering how in the world the United States got diverted into the slow lane to hell, go watch Noam Chomsky\u2019s\u00a0movie. If you\u2019ve just seen Noam Chomsky\u2019s movie and are wondering whether the human species is really worth saving, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[2822,12254,204,12479,1880,868],"class_list":["post-17959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-american-dream","tag-david-swanson","tag-democracy","tag-michael-moore","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17960,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959\/revisions\/17960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}