David Simon on the End of the American Empire

Speaking at Loyola College, David Simon, an author and creator of the acclaimed HBO program, "The Wire," shares his views on the end of the American Empire in three video segments. He says we're headed for separate Americas of "haves and have-nots." Simon faults "unencumbered Capitalism" for making our country care less about the most vulnerable of our citizens. Unless we change, he predicts "we are doomed."

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[SterilizeThePopulace]

@jarden69 If you're going to be a pedantic dickweed, you should learn to capitalize correctly and not use ellipses where commas should go. By the way, Merriam-Webster lists as the first definition for "further" an alternate way of saying "farther." MW states that the two words have been used "more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history." Also, "farther" originated as a modification of the word "further," which existed earlier. You're not as bright as you think.

[DBCOOPER888]

For as bad as the Wire depicts a modern American city, historically we're living in the best times ever. 

[kentucy9999]

 Give it another 100 years Dave.

[nycic]

@MadCoins I identify as a social-democrat. My guess is that you understand what that is, so no need here to explain further. With respect, to "bide our time" is what is killing us. Politicians of both stripes are selling us short-term solutions to the deep and dangerous structural inefficiencies in this system. When what is called for are urgent reforms. In this society, it takes years and years to achieve baby-steps towards a desirable outcome. Something has got to give, and soon.

[MadCoins]

@nycic Everything in the "visible political spectrum" has failed or is on the way to imminent failure. A glaringly obvious reason for this is because all the "isms" that exist in the political spectrum were created with a thought process that failed to consider resources to be finite. Resources are finite and until there is a system in place that is built first and foremost on this principle any answer to your question is "nowhere, we can just try to bide our time".

[MadCoins]

Wait, dope smoking jackass is like saying fruit eating jackass or car driving jackass or toilet using jackass or beer drinking jackass or tv show producing jackass or voting jackass or sex having jackass or speech giving jackass or degree having jackass or cake baking jackass or hand shake giving jackass or mother jones interview giving jackass or HBO employed jackass. Jackass is still an insult but "dope smoking" is harmless and hasn't been an insult since the Cold War. Get modern brother!

[nycic]

If he wasn't then a Marxist, I'd like to know where he is now on the political spectrum. If one is going to thoroughly condemn this system, where else can one go?

Socialism or barbarism-- Rosa Luxemburg.

[blasko88]

@jarden69 also, 1:33 "transitive"? what? i know he means period of transition, or experiencing transition. 'transitory' is a word but 'transitive' is a linguistic term used to describe verbs or something