Requiem for the American Dream Comments

  • Wayne 2023-01-29 06:59:30

    I don’t really understand why linguist Teacher Qiao must use elementary knowledge of political economy as public knowledge=....

  • Cecil 2023-01-22 05:38:44

    "Social Hierarchy" and "Rational...

  • Chesley 2023-01-19 08:48:08

    Accepting opinions is scary. Others put forward their opinions, and as an audience, they should examine them and then form their own opinions. Teacher Qiao is very left, and the left must be well-founded, but the original intention of this film may not be to make the entire United States turn to the left, but to try to make some efforts to set things right in a group that is generally...

  • Clark 2023-01-14 02:39:34

    Human beings are trapped after all. Chomsky speaks out for private companies to suppress civilians, and throws him into the era of socialist China killing local tyrants and destroying private companies. He may speak up for private companies. In the final analysis, it is a question of how to suppress the self-interested nature of human beings. If it doesn’t work, it has to rely on sympathy and empathy. The lack of sympathy and empathy has to be made up by the system. Conscience and the system...

  • Xzavier 2023-01-02 12:13:51

    American social...

  • Fern 2022-12-18 01:31:35

    I am very scared, especially when I realize that China is also using things from the United...

  • Lonzo 2022-12-01 05:52:22

    Unexpectedly, in addition to being a linguist, Chomsky is also an active social activist and leftist intellectual. However, I still start with the text analysis he is good at, explaining the true political intentions buried in many historical policies. Many documentaries of the same type talk about the crimes of Huajie, collusion between politics and business, and American eye-catching conspiracy theories. There is no use other than turning off the computer and cursing the crime of capitalism....

  • Drake 2022-11-11 22:37:54

    The level of campaign propaganda is less hard. If there is trading activity, there must be currency, and if there is a concept of currency, there will be capital operation. Capital has its own logic. How to incorporate capital's own logic into the whole society to become prosperous and civilized is like how humans invent weapons and prevent them from being used in As in human beings, it is a human defect; to disregard this defect to talk about any political issue is a religion, and its talk...

  • Liana 2022-11-01 13:43:26

    the concentration of wealth and power should feel...

  • Tina 2022-10-22 02:30:32

    The financialization of the economy, the offshoring of production, and the insight into the direction of changes in the economic system are quite accurate, and the upper echelons are trying to disintegrate the solidarity and political participation of the lower class. This is not just the strategy of American politicians and business giants. The film repeatedly expresses the memory of equality and democracy in the 1950s and 1960s. Now the world is indeed becoming more and more right-wing, and...

Extended Reading
  • Kristy 2022-08-19 22:12:48

    Chomsky's 2015 "Requiem for the American Dream"

    I recently watched Chomsky's 2015 "Requiem for the American Dream", and I have a lot of thoughts, so try to write down a few points.

    Let me talk about Chomsky first. His insight into language and his understanding of power and politics made him a rare and true public intellectual. In China, it is...

  • 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...

Requiem for the American Dream quotes

  • [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.

  • 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.