Alright, so every Farsi-speaker, please pay attention to this extremely well made and highly recommended documentary recently broadcasted by Iran's IRIB Mostanad channel:
Pāyāne bāzi. Yek royā, yek emperāturi, yek forupāshi. Revāyate daghigh va mostanad az zendegi dar Āmrikā
The End of the Game. One Dream, one Empire, one Downfall. Exact and Documented Account of Life in America
This basically consists of an intelligently assembled series of translated sequences from TV reports, documentaries and discussions aired on English-language networks - mostly American ones, in addition to a poignant selection of images with voice-over commentary citing renowned western analysts and papers dealing with the various aspects of the decadence and announced downfall of the US empire:
- the progressive sapping of the foundations of the US financial system and of the US dollar's monopoly as an international currency;
- the devastating consequences of recent banking crises on ordinary Americans;
- the steady decomposition of the local manufacturing base for the benefit of the financial sector;
- the astronomical proportions of public and private debt, as well as their non-viability in the long term;
- the homeless working poor, as well as the jobless population;
- the outright arrogance and carelessness of corporate America and its 1% upper class and billionaires towards the people;
- the unbelievably irresponsible negligence of a crumbling public infrastructure in the richest nation on earth;
- the enhanced social-economic inequalities and discrimination of all types;
- the tendency of Americans to seek refuge in the virtual world of the internet as a deceptive palliative for proper social interactions;
- the scourge of widespread drug and especially opiates abuse;
- the steady increase of the suicide rate;
- the ever worsening phenomenon of mass shootings;
- the mortiferous policy of deliberately encouraging mass abortion through family planning services, and the grizzly commodification of aborted human embryos;
- the generalized moral and sexual decay;
- the banalization of births outside wedlock and of monoparental, dysfunctional families;
- the deepening domestic political fractures inside America;
- the constant brainwashing and projection of a fallaciously polished image by US mainstream media and Hollywood;
- a wounded beast's headlong rush into futile wars in West Asia
and more, intelligently bundled together in a well structured, conceptually rational manner.
About an hour and a half of methodical exposure of what life in America really looks like for the average citizen, beneath the distorted and embellished representations stemming from Hollywood and from the prevalence of American high tech industries. This contrast explains why many outside the US might still be attracted by the notion of an "American dream" which inside the US is fading by the day. In sum, the present production offers an objective depiction of a reality which could quite realistically be termed as hell on earth.
Of course most of you had already been aware of these points, but this particular documentary in my opinion excels by its comprehensive and synthetic nature. It can serve as a condensed reference point for future discussions or as an eye-opening document you might want to share with contacts (especially in Iran) who might be oblivious to these facts, as a result of continued exposure to foreign-based Farsi media.
And also keep in mind the geopolitical opportunities that America's heavy domestic challenges will indirectly generate for a rising Iran.
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@OldTwilight I would like to invite you to watch this, brother. Every claim in the documentary is substantiated by solid and credible sources. Afterwards, you might be motivated to reevaluate some of the black/white views you held when it came to I
ran vis-a-vis the rest of the world.
