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...
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.