Not the V we Know But It's Still V

[rich]

it may not be a young girl, or a grown woman, or a priest or a place
in africa, or an automaton or a crash test dummy but that Vision
folks, this modern Vision we're all seeing I guess, is surely V, as it
says on the blurb a world mad with despair

rich

from the Adam Curtis post I linked to a few days ago

"All this is comprehensible though - but only if you look at it in a
wider context. A context that western liberals really don't like to
think about because it makes them very depressed. It is the great
shift of our time - the collapse of the dream that politicians could
change the world for the better. A dream that was replaced by a
conviction that politicians were untrustworthy and always become
corrupted by power.

The collapse of that optimistic vision of what politics could achieve
then left the way open for powerful, reactionary forces to take power
who don't want to change the world. Instead they want to manage the
world and hold it stable - backed up by the threat of violence. A
threat to which they have become increasingly addicted.

This has happened not only in America and in Britain - but all over
the world. And I want to tell the story of how it happened in the
Middle East. It is the intertwined story of the rise of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in the Gaza strip and the reactionary
right-wing nationalist groups in Israel.

All three groups are driven by an angry, pessimistic vision of the
world, of human nature - and the inability of politicians to transform
things for the better. It's a fascinating story because it shows how
the underlying similarities led those groups to become tightly locked
together - helping each other cement their ruthless grip on their
people - and freeze out any progressive alternatives."