This award-winning movie explores media and it's effect on society. I wish that our schools would have mandatory classes teaching students about media consumption and how it can effect their sense of identity if they don't understand it. Our Western culture is seeing a changes in the mental health of our young people, and I believe these changes are strongly related to how the … [Read more...]
The Erosion of US Civil Liberties
While the US media is focused on the latest political scandal, civil rights in the United States continue to be eroded. Here is a likely incomplete list of some of the things the government is now allowed to do, essentially because they say they can. … [Read more...]
Park Avenue, Money, Power and the American Dream
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America’s richest citizens have “rigged the game in their favor,” and created unprecedented inequality in the United States. Nowhere, … [Read more...]