I just viewed On Assignment with Richard Engel: Made in China. It was an interesting show that spawns a look at similar topics on Capitalism in America. Here are possible topics to explore:
1. Not free to innovate
a. Big Government Science
b. Academic research - peer review
c. Control of innovation: patents and big business
d. Advertising and forbidden news
2. Shame in (on) America
a. Race: The slave power
b. Jim Crow in the North and South
c. Resistence to change
d. Decency Codes
e. 1959, when the world changed and all that jazz, a sense of humor
f. Cultural reaction: The Elites, a not-semitism
g.. The Warren Court, Hernandez to Perry
h. Abortion politics, Roe & Reagan to Alabama and Indiana v. Planned Parenthood
3. The Security State
a. Red Scares: Wilson to McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover
b. No Such Agency and Security Clearances
c. Capitalist spying: Credit bureaus and MetaData, medical privacy
d. Criminal records, the war on drugs, immigration, ICE and voter suppression (back to race).
Easily a 2 Hour show
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