Requiem for the American Dream
The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
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Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality.
"During the Great Depression, things were much worse than they are today, but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. There isn't today.... Inequality is really unprecedented. In terms of total inequality, it's like the worst periods in American history. But if you refine it more closely, the inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1 percent.... Not only is it extremely unjust in itself, inequality has highly negative consequences on the society as a whole because the very fact of inequality has a corrosive, harmful effect on democracy."
(Noam Chomsky, in Requiem for the American Dream)
Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness. It will go down as one of his greatest and most lasting contributions.
Requiem for the American Dream is being produced in tandem with the film of the same name that was recently released in selected theaters to rave reviews and standing ovations. It will be on Netflix and touring colleges prior to the book's release.
©2017 Valeria Chomsky (P)2017 Recorded Books
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- Pierre Gauthier
- 13/06/2020
Both Refreshing and Frustrating!
This work, apparently based on a movie, presents what the author considers to be the ten principles that explain what he claims is the demise of the American Dream.
It is refreshing to hear from an independent mind that the US Founding Fathers were intent not on creating a democracy but a plutocracy, as women, slaves, Natives, and men who did not meet minimum property requirements were not awarded the right to vote. However, many other points are not as well supported, for example that high student debts inextricably curtail creativity and democracy.
Many other shortcomings must be pointed out:
• though published in 2017, certain references are strangely dated, for instance to Ralph Nader or the Trilateral Commission;
• the author’s vocabulary is counterproductively aggressive and includes words such as “propaganda”, “indoctrination”, “Masters of Society”, “corporate tyranny”, “electoral extravaganza” (referring to presidential elections); this devalues his points and, no doubt, will lead many readers to consider him bombastic and even paranoid;
• the work is difficult to follow in audio format, partly because the ten principles are simply aligned one after the other with no overall progression, partly because there are long quotes, often repeated, that break the little gradation there is.
Another work than this one by Noam Chomsky may better serve as an introduction to his thoughts.
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