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D: student loans.
Why aren’t they as galvanized as the so-called great generation that fought the Second World War or the baby boomers protesting during the 1960s, the film asks?
A wealth of factors are cited by the talking heads, from parenting to media to education. They boil down to what Chomsky points to as an institutional system of control. Parents want their children to excel, so they shelter and coddle them. The media feeds them advertising at every turn. Then as they set out as young adults, huge student loans force young people to take company jobs to pay off their debt, and so the cycle continues, Chomsky and others argue.
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