Adam Curtis - HyperNormalisation

From 2016. Now with subtitles in many languages.

I take exception to his statement at 0:50. There are many who have a better idea but we have been isolated from each other. See from 1:39:42 on the effect on Hollywood. Now look at a graph of coffee consumption in the UK and the USA.

There's some interesting stuff here about Kissinger in Syria in the mid seventies.

At 1:00:33 Gadhaffi, you gotta love him!😀❤💓💕 When you're treaed like a dangerous animal, the only way to survive is to become a more dangerous animal. Then eventually you became so dangerous that you yourself no longer need to survive.

1:28:00 That older idea of democratic politics being "a way to give a voice to the weak against the powerful" should have gone away in the early sixties.

2:12:42 Egyptian "Arab Spring" uprising.

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