Howmanheyman 26625 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Tooj sent me a text about that. Not sure when I'll get the chance to see it like as it's not exactly something I would sit down and watch with my lass. Aye, I noticed it the other day but was the same plus thought it would be on too long and I was knackered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30255 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Actually I'll just take some drugs and watch it tonight. Because that's all I do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Lucky you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26625 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Ah, that explains all the smilies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 https://twitter.com/chrisapplegate/status/787751065315840000/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30255 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 It's a reference to our resident sanctimonious bore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 I thought it was excellent from start to finish. 3 hours flew by. HyperNormalisation review (Adam Curtis, BBC iPlayer): A masterfully dark dive into our dissociative experience of realityA rare documentary that respects the viewer's intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Well that was fucking bleak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17628 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 I had the choice of this or the human centipede last night, and chose the latter. Will give it a watch in instalments at some point with my Curtis bingo card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14528 Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Just finished watching this. Strangely, both Robert Del Naja and Massive attack are thanked separately in the credits. Oh, the world is mad as fuck, we're lead by utter cunts and we're all doomed too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 Brilliant interview Episode 65 - No Future feat. Adam Curtis (12/12/16) by Chapo Trap House https://player.fm/1hfNwr Scathing on centrists with no principles to stand for who are outraged at Trump idiots when it's they who are idiotically voting for a criminal plutocracy with no vision of a better world. And occupy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17628 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Sounds right up Rayvin's street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 (edited) People no longer have the tools to create this 'powerful new vision of the future'. The tools like our imaginations have been colonised long ago. These people they talk about like Musk are just used car salesmen they ain't visionaries. Visionaries are caught early and put on meds for hyperactivity or summink. That Tesla story is funny cause he had loads of very rich support till he started sayin he could make leccy travel through the air and it would be free for everyone. Backers vanished overnight. ''Lost stole all my ideas'' Edited March 18, 2017 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 Sounds right up Rayvin's street.As bad as he thinks the parties (and voters) of the centre left have been in their ignorance of issues that elevate Trump and Brexit, ultimately he's very cautious about big ideas of shifts to the left. He ponders what people want. Is it really wholesale change throughout society, or are things actually pretty good as they are and just need a tweak so that banks are beholden to the public rather than the public beholden to banks? I think most of us want the latter, but there's yet to be a party on either side of the Atlantic able to convince voters that the architects of economic instability will pay for their errors (or be stopped from repeating them) rather than those reliant on the social safety net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 4949 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 As bad as he thinks the parties (and voters) of the centre left have been in their ignorance of issues that elevate Trump and Brexit, ultimately he's very cautious about big ideas of shifts to the left. He ponders what people want. Is it really wholesale change throughout society, or are things actually pretty good as they are and just need a tweak so that banks are beholden to the public rather than the public beholden to banks? I think most of us want the latter, but there's yet to be a party on either side of the Atlantic able to convince voters that the architects of economic instability will pay for their errors (or be stopped from repeating them) rather than those reliant on the social safety net. This sounds interesting and i'll give it a listen later. That said he sounds right. The only thing I'd add is that the realities of what people are voting 'for' aren't perhaps as important as the surrounding narratives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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