I disagree that it takes too long. I wallow in it:
- Russian folk punk
- Avant garde theatre theory to control the spectacle
- Trump's roots in the banksters' destruction of New York
city government by financialization
- The elites not as MoTU, but as clueless story chasers --
now without a story
I recommend setting aside a couple of hours and enjoying this.
Agreed, a tremendous work with a dream like quality, a phantasmagoria contrasting vapid American consumer culture, against bloody reality in the lands the great powers toy with.
Also interesting observations on William Gibson's work and the genesis of the EFF.
Definitely worth watching in it's entirety.
It's central thesis, that the current state of affairs has become too complex to predict for elites, and that either a fake, simplified reality is both created and presented to the masses, and also willingly retreated into.
Plus great stuff about the cynicism created by the failure and capitulation of social movements.
One of it's assertions is that Gaddafi willingly accepted a false role as a global supervillian because he liked the attention and status, and was in fact not actually responsible for some of the terrorist acts attributed to him, was completely new to me.
History and reality is hard to know in an age of state sponsored manipulation campaigns, intelligence and counter-intelligence, spycraft and subterfuge.
One has to look at any attribution as highly suspect in this environment. Cui bono?
The setting up of Gadaffi as a fake supervillan to cover Assad's dirty work is a cases study in US/ UK doublespeak, and propaganda - well worth watching.
“I really was astonished when I went back to the 1980s how much of what they claimed was Gadaffi was actually Assad using all these strange terrorists in Damascus...rather than deal with something complicated, Western powers found that Gadaffi who had until then been isolated and ignored by the Arab world, fitted the bill of a cartoon villain." - Adam Curtis
