美国梦之安魂曲

精英政治，民主政治，集权政治，少数精英政治，多数暴政……我们不敢说哪一种更好，但是历史的车轮碾过，无论是古罗马共和的消失，还是世界各国的工人运动，都有着血淋淋的过往。未来可以被决定吗，历史是偶然还是必然？我们只是在发展的过程中，在后现代社会到来之际，希望可以越来越清晰，可是呢，我们知道，随着技术、经济的发展，我们要面临的问题只会越来越多。
无处不在的监听…武器、恐怖主义…不仅仅是美国梦，而是世界梦药丸💊……

复习一下《美国梦之安魂曲》中粗略论述的“concentration of wealth and power”
总论述为A vicious circle: Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power, particularly so as the cost of election skyrockets, which kind of forces the political parties into the pocket of major corporations. And this political power quickly translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth.

Principle#1: Reduce Democracy
Principle#2: Shape Ideology
Principle#3: Redesign the economy
Principle#4: Shift the burden
Principle#5: Attack Solidarity
Principle#6: Run the Regulators
Principle#7: Engineer Elections
Principle#8: Keep the Rabble in Line
Principle#9: Manufacture Consent
Principle#10: Marginalize the population

Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nuclear war and getting arrested on demonstrations rather than continuing to work on the serious philosophical and logical problems which have major intellectual significance? He said: “Look, if I and others like me only work on those problems, there won’t be anybody around to appreciate it or be interested.”

在学校时写的短作文，虽然有点小学生考试的感觉，但还是放上来留着。说不定哪天还可以交个作业什么的。 【滑稽】
    顺便，其实我不是很喜欢这种把其他经济/哲学家的理论作为大众常识，把自己的理论强加给别人的方式。
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    After watching “Requiem for the American Dreams”, I was very shocked by Noam Chomsky’s statement that the inequality of the society comes from the extreme rich, who are only 1% of the population in America. In his theory, the concentration of wealth yields concentration of power, and those small number of wealthier people would merely protect the minority of themselves. However, the America has always proclaimed and promoted that it strives to establish a democracy and equality society. Now people would ask: “If can democracy really lead to equality to all people in the world? And why was majority of social wealth held in a very few so-called elite class?
In my opinion, unequal-social-wealth distribution is not a good thing for either the society or the people. Democracy will not automatically bring about reasonable social allocation. The group of middle-class people, just like us, actually only demand for a well-being life. All they need is to have their lives to be safer and sufficient. They do not have that much desire to participate political affairs. However, people should turn their attention more to the intentions of the politicians, as well as the social responsibilities and moralities of the rich entrepreneurs.
    Exploitation and profit-oriented drive separate each group of people who possess different social wealth, and that causes the formation of the different social classes in the society and generates the inequality; however, at the present stage, we have no any other choices. The people who have more assets and more capital are able to make more money in an exponent degree. In the future, it is better to somewhat limit the increasing rate of wealth in the rich or drastically change the tax rates for different groups in lieu of their incomes. As long as we keep this policy for long, the real equality and democracy society will eventually come true.
The film gives us 10 principles of how the American society developed in the past years; however, it also leaves us a question: what should we do to realize the equality within a democratic society? How and what should we do? We should probably take some time and think about the big question coming from the movie.