BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | David Simon Part 1 of 2 | PBS

The Wire is a miracle. We may never see anything this good again. David Simon is dead on about our society, institutions and inequities that we have created. We have tried to replace our social contract with capitalism, and we are making no progress.

what an eye opening interview.

if only everyone in america could see this, and take it to heart. i am positive we would all be a lot better off.

But isnt that a selfish and greedy perspective. Chawk, we are all human beings, and in all of our bluster of glory, patriotism, capitalism, and bastardized freedom we have not only discarded the unwanted and unneeded, we have discarded or souls. The one thing in the entirety of the cosmos the cannot be recycled. Our time in the world is finite and grounded to a mortal coil that is full of

"If it were chewing up white folk it wouldnt have gone on for as long." David Simon

LISTEN TO WHAT HE IS SAYING!

The simple, clearly ridiculous premise behind so many graduation speeches/ Oprah episodes/ justifications of capitalism is that everyone can be at the sharp end of the pyramid. If everyone is breathing rarefied air, then it isn't rarefied is it? And it IS a pyramid. If there were no cameramen/

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camera factory workers/ camera raw material miners, there would be no successful, well paid, TV journalists for ex. And there need to be a lot more on the bottom, so there can be just a few on the top.

This is especially true when you consider the relative nature of success/ achievement. If 90% of ppl

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spoke seven languages, did Calculus, and could design-build-program-market an iPhone, all by the time they were 13, THAT would be mediocre. In a sense, your success depends on others' failure. Now there is one way in which the system DOSE work and ISN'T absurd - if most people ARE inferior and it is their fault. Then, if you can elevate yourself above them, you deserve your unequal share of the

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wealth. Let's assume that isn't true. But don't you think those few who are benefiting from the system of inequality would tend to believe that it is, in order to justify their position in it?

All of this was well parodied in an episode of "30 Rock" when Tracy Jordan ends a speech to graduates of his alma mater with, "...and everyone in this room will become president of The United States."

Wire blows away every other show ever created