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Mina 2022-08-19 10:23:50
Chomsky's voice is so nice, well-organized and nonsense, the calm demagogue is the cutest. Repeatedly mentioning human nature and appealing to the conscience of each individual at the end may be our last hope in...
Requiem for the American Dream Comments
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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...
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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...
Requiem for the American Dream quotes
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opening title card: NOAM CHOMSKY is widely regarded as the most influential intellectual of our time. - Filmed over four years, these are his final long-form documentary interviews.
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Noam Chomsky: During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, and when most of my family was unemployed working class, it was bad, much worse objectively than today. But there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. - There isn't today.
