New Adam Curtis Oct 13

[rich]

I found this quote from a review in the Guardian eye-opening. Curtis has
touched upon this a bit in his previous film, Hypernormalisation.

rich

A Russian journalist who recently fled Putin’s regime reflected
sardonically to Curtis: “You in Britain are Moscow in about 1988. Everyone
knows the system isn’t working. Everyone knows that the managers are
completely looting it. They know that you know that they know, but no one
has any concept of a possible alternative. The only difference is you’ve
already tried democracy. You’ve got nothing else left.”

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:18 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/adam-curtis-russia-1985-1999-traumazone
>>
>> 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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>