The Four Horsemen

Today I will talk about a short documentary watched in my social studies class called The Four Horsemen. This documentary mainly talks about how the United States is cataloged as an empire and how this empire will fall as time passes. It takes as title The Four Horsemen because it describes the four things found in an empire that are: War, Conquest, Famine, and Death. The documentary also criticizes and questions the system that we have created in the way that it shows and explains the huge division between the rich and the poor. To complement the title, the documentary expresses the idea that the American empire will fall and gives some reason to support this idea. Some of the reasons that will make the US empire fall according to the documentary are: The luxury, the spending in the military, the years of decay, and lastly, as I just said, the really huge gap or division between the rich and the poor which forms a visible economic inequality.

An interesting quote I heard in the documentary was: "To understand something is to be liberated from it." Seeing how the things are in the US and how this would affects us terrifies me. The United States now-days is like a world power, they have military, relationships and the US interests. Many of the things we have or the clothe we buy comes from the US, so it would impact our lives way more than we imagine. Food companies and clothe companies that were created in the US and that have been globalizing, will in some way decrease but not fall because of their expansion throughout the world. We have to accept the reality that without the US, many of the world´s countries would be left without an important ally like in the case of Colombia and other countries.

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