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Requiem for the American Dream
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Requiem for the American Dream

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Noam Chomsky, filmed over four years in what became his last long-form documentary interview, lays out ten principles he sees driving the concentration of wealth and power in the United States since the 1970s. The film moves between Chomsky's living room, archival news footage, and graphics charting the widening gap between productivity and wages, tracing a line from Lewis Powell's 1971 memo urging business to organize politically through Reagan-era deregulation to the 2008 financial collapse. Chomsky walks through each principle in turn: reducing democracy, shaping ideology, redesigning the economy, shifting the burden of taxation, attacking solidarity, running the regulators, engineering elections, keeping the rabble in line, manufacturing consent, marginalizing the population. The directors intercut his analysis with vintage advertising, corporate lobbying footage, and labor history to ground the argument in specific events rather than abstraction. It plays as a summary lecture of positions Chomsky has spent decades developing, organized here into a single accessible case for how deliberate policy choices, not impersonal market forces, produced today's inequality.