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Adam Curtis is back - ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE

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  • #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    he always struck me as a sophisticated mans conspiracy theorist


  • #3
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    he always struck me as a sophisticated mans conspiracy theorist

    That's exactly what he is. Any conspiracy theorist I've met loves him once they discover him as they feel he "proves" what they spout. My understanding of what he says is that the stuff he puts across stems more from a public malaise rather than any nefarious plots of the "lizards."


    Anyway, looking forward to this, and I've spread the news to all the internet communities I'm part of. I already have it set to record as I figure it's something I'll watch over and over. And this show in particular is going to be very relevant to current issues.


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Korea/Thailand/Malaysia 1998 Ireland 2008 'nuff said.

    Facinating about Alan Greenspan and his links with Ayn Rand.


  • #5
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    All fairly standard stuff tbh. Took a good while to make a pretty obvious point.


  • #6
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    I tend to enjoy the journey rather than the destination with Curtis' stuff. His films are so compelling to watch, I don't mind too much that the agenda he's working towards is shaky. I disagree with the central premise I'm taking from this one, for instance, but the history of Rand, the Humdog quotes, and the Pong game, were fascinating.

    This one hasn't quite seized my attention as much as some of his previous output though, even though the subject itself is probably closer to my heart than any of those ones.


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  • #7
    EggsAckley
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭EggsAckley


    Someone tweeted this link to his blog. Set your jaw to dumbfounded


  • #8
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    I remember seeing one of these documentaries on BBC by him years ago
    which dealed with statistics and how they have taken over the modern world basically, can anyone remember what it was called :confused:
    I do remember it changed the way I was seeing the world, not sure if that was a good or a bad thing though. There was alot of interesting stuff in this one, especially South East Asia/Indonesia dealings with IMF and the parallels with Ireland at the moment.
    Watching the frontline afterwards and hearing the arguement to go back to the punt was tense though, having watched this it confirmed this is the LAST thing we want to do right now. People should be MADE watch his programmes, there are a number of 'facts' in them which you cant argue with, but you just dont know if he's putting them together in his own way to suit what he believes to be happening....Im on the fence about him.

    They really are intense though, very different style to 'The Ascent of Money' which was intense also, but the delivery was very different and harder to absorb, it was a bit all over the place.


  • #9
    Johnny_the_fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Johnny_the_fox


    mike65 wrote: »
    Korea/Thailand/Malaysia 1998 Ireland 2008 'nuff said.

    indeed. the IMF link...


  • #10
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    2nd episode was on yesterday, interesting stuff


  • #11
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Always makes for interesting viewing. Usually leaves me slightly depressed and angry after watching his stuff though.


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  • #12
    BroomBurner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Saw the episode on how they viewed nature as a system in perfect balance, gave rise to a very famous book by Olum (I think). That stuff is still taught today, thankfully just as one side of the arguement though.

    Anyway, I thought the programme was good, except towards the end, when he brought in the stuff on the Middle Eastern Spring, and the Iranian failed revolution. He was trying to claim that it was people's inability to keep moving forward and make progress, but he didn't spend any time whatsoever on the debilitating effect of those in power. I thought it was kind of a lame and ill-thought out add-on that didn't belong to what was an otherwise excellent programme.


  • #13
    EggsAckley
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭EggsAckley


    Couldn't link to the video so had to link this blog. Not sure about the blog but the vid is very funny


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