Adam Curtis Documentary
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We are living through strange days. Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing corruption - and a widespread distrust of the elites. Into this has come the pandemic that has brutally dramatised those divisions. But despite the chaos, there is a paralysis - a sense that no one knows how to escape from this.
Can’t Get You Out of My Head tells how we got to this place. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on. At its heart is the strange story of what happened when people’s inner feelings got mixed up with power in the age of individualism. How the hopes and dreams and uncertainties inside people's minds met the decaying forces of old power in Britain, America, Russia and China. What resulted was a block not just in the society - but also inside our own heads - that stops us imagining anything else than this.
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9nquHUE0Y
The story of what tore the revolutions in the 1960s apart. Jiang Qing in
China, Michael X in London, Afeni Shakur in New York believed that
millions of people’s minds were haunted by the corruption and the
violence of the past. They wanted to show people how to escape those
ghosts.
But they hadn’t reckoned with the fact that the old structures of power
still haunted their minds too. They too had been scarred by the past –
and some of them wanted violent revenge. While psychologists and
neuroscientists were starting to discover what they said were hidden
forces inside the human brain that really controlled what they did. But
the people weren’t aware.
Part3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdnfOVT8DwY
The story of how in the 1970s those in power set out to create a world
free of the dangerous big ideas of the past. They banished the grand
dreams of changing the world. And replaced them with money. People would
live from now on in their own heads – in their own dreams. And the
banks would lend them the money to create those dreams. While China
would supply a wave of cheap consumer goods on a scale never seen before
in the world.
But then money broke free across the world. And people started to get
frightened that things were out of control. Not just money - but the
world’s climate too seemed to be behaving in a strange, unpredictable
way. The systems seemed to have a life of their own. Beyond the ability
of anyone to shape and predict.
The Wall