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Jeffery 2022-08-19 18:36:31
How does democracy go?
With Brexit, Trump came to power, public grievances are boiling, what's wrong with the world?
Yesterday I watched the documentary Requiem for the American Dream, which was translated into "Requiem for the American Dream" in Chinese. This documentary lasted 4 years and filmed ten views of the famous... -
Buster 2022-08-19 18:40:55
The ten guidelines are not all
Elite politics, democratic politics, authoritarian politics, minority elite politics, majority tyranny...We dare not say which one is better, but the wheel of history has run over, whether it is the disappearance of the ancient Roman republic or the labor movement of the world. Has a bloody past....
Mark Rudd
Extended Reading
Requiem for the American Dream quotes
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[last lines]
Noam Chomsky: Like my close friend for many years, Howard Zinn, put it in his words that "What matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter into history." They're the ones who have done things in the past and they're the ones who have to do it in the future.
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Noam Chomsky: It ends up with what is called 'regulatory capture'. The business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. Bank lobbies started writing the laws of financial regulation, it's got to that extreme.
