@KeithDJohnson
Yes, we cottoned onto this many years ago, most #philanthropy is #fauxlanthropy.

A brilliant documentary on how #thePeople have been systematically transitioned from being an active '#citizen' to a docile '#consumer' is The Century Of The Self (#AdamCurtis/BBC, 2002).

It cover a suite of propaganda techniques used to #engineerConsent for all manner of abuse by large #corporations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzqDMnUG4kk

#HyperNormailisation (2016),#AdamCurtis #documentary

This #film argues that governments , financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex 'real world' and built a simpler 'fake world' run by corporations and kept that way by politcians.

"Edited from a 72-minute conversation between Adam Curtis and Russell Brand to exclude pauses, umm-ing, etc... and (with apologies) Russell Brand."

https://youtu.be/MIHC4NNScEI

#Politics #HyperNormalisation #AdamCurtis

Hot girl summer? No, depressing Adam Curtis Summer #AdamCurtis

#Memory Marathon 2012: #AdamCurtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp2vGAD-BGw

#Brainwashing as a psychological concept is brainwashing itself: it doesn't exist and prevents us from thinking out of the box concepts we accept as "the #norm". 😯

Great 22min #video to watch and learn how brainwashing was used to actually manipulate the perception of the masses. 🤯

#deprogramming #psychology

Getting intellectual with tonight’s paracinema meme ... :: sews elbow patches onto corduroy jacket ::
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#AdamCurtis #GuyDebord #Documentaries #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #Memes #MovieMemes

@teledyn

Fabulous documentary!

Here's another site where all the parts of this documentary are available: https://thoughtmaybe.com/russia-1985-1999-traumazone/

#AdamCurtis #BBC #TraumaZone

Watched Adam Curtis' 2016 documentary "Hypernormalisation" today, and it's pretty heavy, not in a fun way. The way he tells his story always feels to me a little bit like he's explaining a conspiracy theory, except it's not - but I do wonder if around the main narrative he's picked out, if there are other important events that contribute just as much, but he doesn't include.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y
#AdamCurtis #Documentary

Adam Curtis - TraumaZone Russia 1985 to 1999
Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_1985%E2%80%931999:_TraumaZone

"Using stock footage shot by the BBC, the series chronicles the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of capitalist Russia and its oligarchs, and the effects of this on Russian people of all levels of society, leading to the rise to power of Vladimir Putin."

#SovietUnion #Russia #History #Communism #Capitalism #ShockTherapy #AdamCurtis

1/6

Generative AI will combine with facial recognition to scrape your friends and family for hyper-targeted advertising, A dystopia ensured by a toothless FCC and rapacious politicians who seek precisely what advertisers seek.

Edward Bernays pioneered Public Relations and mass advertising, the use of desire over need, as told by #AdamCurtis in "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" but begin with this one... #RequiredViewing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis | FULL DOCUMENTARY - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw

"How we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed and have no idea what to do".

"A rare documentary that respects the viewer's intelligence"

#AdamCurtis #Capitalism #Society #Politics

Well, this might be interesting.

https://deadline.com/2023/02/james-graham-michael-sheen-adam-curtis-the-way-bbc-1235262030/

#AdamCurtis #BBC #television

👀#Documentary #AdamCurtis Hypernormalisation. The cult documentary maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw

👀#Documentary The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, written and produced by #AdamCurtis. https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-AdamCurtis

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGDByvdY5CHX_BTvG2X4vPrQfgqlSwSy5 #documentary #russia #adamcurtis #bbc #ussr #documentaire

[1992] Pandora’s Box - Documentary series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of exploiting technological and political ideas without understanding and concern for the outcome. First episode, “The Engineers’ Plot”.

https://youtu.be/h3gwyHNo7MI

#OldBritishTelly #AdamCurtis #PandorasBox

Here's a good site with a lot of interesting documentaries. It's free, and there's no ads. Further, on their "about" page, they cite open source software as something to support. So, do check out the site. Recommended.

https://thoughtmaybe.com/

#documentaries #activism #OpenSource #Linux #AdamCurtis

Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!

I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.

I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!

I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.

#philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #anarchism #communism #anticapitalism #mutualaid #prefiguration #ontology #phenomenology #poststructuralism #structuralism #mathematics #chaos #topology #imagination #art #education #linguistics #literature #music #machines #networks #cybernetics #systems #sustainability #ecology #technology #sciencefiction #utopia #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #MurrayBookchin #NoamChomsky #PeterKropotkin #AdamCurtis #KenLoach #AlbertCamus #GillesDeleuze #JacquesDerrida #JeanPaulSartre #MarkFisher #SimoneDeBeauvoir #FranzKafka #GeorgeOrwell #PercyByssheShelley #MaryShelley #UrsulaKLeGuin

Just finished #Traumazone, the Adam Curtis documentary about what is was like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy in Russia.

Brilliant but bleak. Definitely worth watching if you have seven hours to spare!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_KpeTgrvo&t=4s

#AdamCurtis
#Documentary

Just finished #Traumazone, the Adam Curtis documentary about what is was like to live through the collapse of Communism and Democracy in Russia.

Brilliant but bleak. Definitely worth watching if you have seven hours to spare!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_KpeTgrvo&t=4s

#AdamCurtis
#Documentary