I watch the occasional documentary but rarely take much note of them; documentaries are something to have on the screen while you’re folding your laundry or doing exercises. This is one of the rare exceptions. This is Noah Chomsky telling it how it is: how this world works, how this society functions and how doomed we really are, but yet with the glimmer of hope that our destiny is ultimately in our individual hands and that we can change things, if we get up and work together to do so. Noah Chomsky is one of the last great thinkers of our time, recalling the not-so-distant past when thinking was actually considered a good thing. He’s old now and probably not going to last much longer, so this documentary is one of our last chances to see this thinker in action. An excellent essay about the state of things in America—how we got here and how we can change course (if we want to).