Requiem for the American Dream

Name: Requiem for the American Dream
Uploaded: 2015
Duration: 1 h 13 min

20151h 13mHD★ 8.4Conspiracy & Cover-Ups

Dr.Docs' Take

Requiem for the American Dream is Noam Chomsky calmly laying out ten principles by which concentrated wealth protects and expands itself. I treat this as a decoder ring, because once you hear the mechanisms named out loud, you start spotting them everywhere. It is not shouty or conspiratorial, it is a professor with four years of interviews and a very steady voice. Quietly one of the most radical hours on the whole shelf.

Requiem for the American Dream distills years of conversation with Noam Chomsky into a clear argument about how wealth and power have concentrated in the hands of a select few. Across ten principles, the linguist and political thinker traces the feedback loop between money and politics, from tax policy and deregulation to the shaping of public opinion. It connects the decline of the middle class to deliberate choices rather than accident. Calm, incisive, and unusually accessible, it is a strong primer on inequality in modern America. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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