Message from @EYEFORKNOWLEDGE156
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oh god
this is so embarrassing
What?
just the ending
ending of waht
Hypernormalization
Recreate the Bantustan Puppet States
Yeah the ending is my main issue with it @Skellington
how dissapointing
@Larry I agree, stated earlier they are hardey buggers.
sounds like adam curtis is a shit lib
Given a chance they will fight for the recreation of the nation that the lost during the time SA was being forged.
@Skellington he gets like that a little bit in the power of nightmares but not as much
In the bitter lake he doesn’t get shit Libby at all iirc
@Skellington so what did you think of it overall
@EYEFORKNOWLEDGE156 it was good
but like
he said "trump defeated journalism because the heart of journalism is to expose the truth and trump didint care about the truth"
hes hyper cynical about everything but then just says "oh yea journalism is about truth"
oh lord
then implies brexit is the start of fascism or whatever
what a joke
Yeah it was very good until the end I think it’s because he doesn’t understand what the cathedral is or how it works
i think he does
he just thinks its conservative or something
Like he kinda does know about it but doesn’t understand how much journalists control it is what I was trying to say
Curtis is inspired by the pioneering sociologist Max Weber, who (in Curtis's words) challenged the "crude, left-wing, vulgar Marxism that says that everything happens because of economic forces within society".[6] Of his general political outlook, Curtis has also remarked:
People often accuse me of being a lefty. That's complete rubbish. If you look at The Century of the Self, what I'm arguing is something very close to a neoconservative position because I'm saying that, with the rise of individualism, you tend to get the corrosion of the other idea of social bonds and communal networks, because everyone is on their own. Well, that's what the neoconservatives argue, domestically. [...] If you ask me what my politics are, I'm very much a creature of my time. I don't really have any. I change my mind over different issues, but I am much more fond of a libertarian view. I have a more libertarian tendency [...] What's astonishing in our time is how the Left here has completely failed to come up with any alternatives, and I think you may well see a lefty libertarianism emerging because people will be much more sympathetic to it, or just a libertarianism, and out of that will come ideas. And I don't mean "localism".[2]
He believes the Western world is haunted by the past, with no vision for the future, and that it has become pessimistic and backward-looking.[1]
@Skellington I still recommend his other documentaries
sure
Like he gets liby in them but they are well made and have good points
from what ive seen and reading that quote seems like hes pretty good
the narrative ive seen from both hypernormalization and century of the self is
1.)individualism has failed
2.) the left are faliures as well
Yeah
Those are basically his main points
Another point of his is that the neocon good America vs evil terrorists ie good vs evil morality has failed as well
his take on trump is also very weak
implies he's smarter than he is
Yeah
litterally people vote for him because hes charasmatic and promised to do something about immigration