New Adam Curtis Oct 13

[David Morris]

I’m sure there’s a lesson to be learned in there somewhere.  From my
perspective it looks like lack of a benevolent founding leader or leaders
doomed both self-rule and a viable economic system. And I’m sure both of
those things could be looked at in fine detail.

But it seems that a foundational problem was a populace that has been
beaten down into submission over a long, long period of time. Learned
helplessness.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:07 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/adam-curtis-russia-1985-1999-traumazone
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> This project is an immersive history that takes you through Russian society
> as it lived through a cataclysm that wrecked the lives of millions of
> people and tore apart the foundations of the whole society. Because what
> the Russians lived through in the 1990s was not just the end of communism,
> but the failure of democracy too. They experienced the collapse of the two
> great ideologies of our time in a period of less than ten years.— Adam
> Curtis
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