Just read the book "Requiem for the American Dream"
Incredibly well documented and organized. This puts all of Chomsky's
writing and thought in order. Here is the Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
A Note on the American Dream
Introduction
PRINCIPLE #1 REDUCE DEMOCRACY
- SECRET PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED AT PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1787, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #2 SHAPE IDEOLOGY
- POWELL MEMORANDUM, LEWI S F. POWELL JR. , 1971, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #3 REDESIGN THE ECONOMY
- “AN END TO THE FOCUS ON SHORT TERM URGED,” WALL STREET JOURNAL , JUSTIN LAHART, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #4 SHIFT THE BURDEN
- HENRY FORD ON WHY H E DOUBLED THE MINIMUM WAGE HE PAID HIS EMPLOYEES, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #5 ATTACK SOLIDARITY THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS , ADAM SMITH, 1759, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #6 RUN THE REGULATORS
- PROSPERITY ECONOMICS: BUILDING AN ECONOMY FOR ALL, JACOB S. HACKER AND NATE LOEWENTHEIL, 2012, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #7 ENGINEER ELECTIONS
- CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY 21, 2010, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #8 KEEP THE RABBLE IN LINE
- “FORD MEN BEAT AND ROUT LEWIS UNION ORGANIZERS; 80,000 OUT IN STEEL STRIKE; 16 HURT IN BATTLE,” NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 26, 1937, AND OTHER SOURCES PRINCIPLE #9 MANUFACTURE CONSENT ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL, LITERARY, DAVID HUME, 1741, AND OTHER SOURCES
PRINCIPLE #9 MANUFACTURE CONSENT
- ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL, LITERARY, DAVID HUME, 1741, AND OTHER SOURCES PRINCIPLE #10 MARGINALIZE THE POPULATION “TESTING THEORIES OF AMERICAN POLITICS: ELITES, INTEREST GROUPS, AND AVERAGE CITIZENS,” MARTIN GILENS AND BENJAMIN I. PAGE, 2014, AND OTHER SOURCES
Notes to Primary Source Material
Chomsky, Noam (2017-03-28). Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power (Kindle Locations 46-53). Seven Stories Press. Kindle Edition.
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-- Part of this intersects with the trolling, disruption and closing of the IMDB message boards. Even in a place like IMDB they must keep people from connecting and making common bonds, so there were thousands of sock-puppet trolls to fill IMDB up with garbage. It's fascinating how there is still free speech in the US, and that a TV program such as "Homeland" can express ideas such as we see at work in the real world.