Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by gmtx725 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:38AM
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Calm down, his films are just interesting takes on the ideologies that govern our times, combined artfully with arresting archive footage and music. They're not always claiming to be capital-t 'truth'...
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by _cs2017_ on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:47AM
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Ah you essentially answered my question about summarizing his views.
It's quite scary that what seems like a conspiracy club lite is getting such a huge amount respect from the highly educated HN audience.
It seems the near future is converging to a bunch of conspiracy theorists duking it out with each other in front of the captive audience -- the general electorate.
Maybe it will make things easier for everyone involved if some conspirators actually do take over the world, thus making this spectacle slightly less surreal.
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by gmtx725 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:42AM
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IMO it's a strange misinterpretation of his work to think he's a conspiracy theorist. I think it is undeniable that every era has an ideology that captures the zeitgeist of the times, I think Curtis just explores the origins of those ideologies and what motivated their progenitors, he is not alleging they had shadowy plans for world domination...
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by polytely on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:57AM
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Oh I read that not as a literal "it's a conspiracy" but more that the echos of Ayn Rand's worldview are visible in how the people in power view the world and their role within it.
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by flagrant on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:15AM
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> the assertion that alan greenspan and a few others were all in league together because they read Ayn Rand.
That's a pretty facile reading of it. It might surprise you that Curtis is centre right himself.
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by _cs2017_ on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:27PM
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He self identifies as a liberal in this interview https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-who-s-real.... He also supports the Occupy movement, which I suspect is not a right of center movement.
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by flagrant on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:15PM
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Liberalism is centre-right. Please remember that Adam Curtis is British, the American political spectrum doesn't really apply here.
Re:New six-film series from Adam Curtis
by KaiserPro on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:51PM
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> Liberalism is centre-right.
No, the liberal democrats are centre-left. Liberalism/authoritarian is mostly a different axis to left/right.
Its perfectly possible to be a left/right leaning liberal in UK politics.
I think the thing that tipped me over was the assertion that alan greenspan and a few others were all in league together because they read Ayn Rand.
After that I realised that hes basically peddling left of centre rants in a pretty style[1].
[1] Left of british centre, and mid 2000s centre. There is nothing wrong with this. I am vaguely sympathetic of his views. But they should not be represented as either fact, or balanced.