Mastodawn

"Shifty is a series of films that traverse the past 40 years in Britain, showing how the shift of political power to finance and hyper-individualism came together in powerful ways, to undermine one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy–the shared idea of what is real."
https://thoughtmaybe.com/shifty/
#AdamCurtis #ThoughtMaybe #Thatcher #Shifty #BBC #TV #Documentary

Shifty

Shifty is a series of films that traverse the past 40 years in Britain, showing how the shift of political power to finance and hyper-individualism came together in powerful ways, to undermine one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy--the shared idea of what is real. As that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in. As a result, life in Britain and the current and former colonies of its empire, has become strange--a hazy dream-like flux, where distrust in politicians keeps growing, and the political class seems to have lost control. Through archive footage, news reels, and on-screen-text in video essay format, Shifty documents the shapes of how this happened, using the vast ranges of footage to evoke what if felt like to live through an epic transformation during the 1980s.

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𝚛𝚊𝚝 Dec 6, 2023

If you've already seen this they have many others
https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/ #thoughtmaybe #film

Can’t Get You Out of My Head

Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today. The series traverses themes of love, power, money, corruption, the ghosts of empire, the history of China, opium and opioids, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, and the history of Artificial Intelligence and surveillance. The series deals with the rise of individualism and populism throughout history, and the failures of a wide range of resistance movements throughout time and various countries, pointing to how revolution has been subsumed in various ways by spectacle and culture, because of the way power has been forgotten or given away.

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Juan A. Zamarripa [E.]Feb 19, 2021

You can watch #AdamCurtis' latest 6-part documentary series, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" at #ThoughtMaybe:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head

"Like many of Curtis's previous documentaries, it explores and links together various topics such as individualism, conspiracy theories, national myths, American imperialism, the history of China, artificial intelligence, and the failure of technology to liberate society in the way that technological utopians once hoped it might."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_Head_(TV_series)

Can’t Get You Out of My Head

Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today. The series traverses themes of love, power, money, corruption, the ghosts of empire, the history of China, opium and opioids, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, and the history of Artificial Intelligence and surveillance. The series deals with the rise of individualism and populism throughout history, and the failures of a wide range of resistance movements throughout time and various countries, pointing to how revolution has been subsumed in various ways by spectacle and culture, because of the way power has been forgotten or given away.

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Juan A. Zamarripa [E.]Apr 23, 2019

@ldexterldesign

A great documentary, indeed, which you can view online here:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/why-we-fight/

#Thanks for the reminder & to #ThoughtMaybe for hosting/streaming this compelling documentary.

#Peace, yes.

Why We Fight

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Why We Fight examines America's policies regarding making war, most recently the Iraq invasion and what is termed "the Bush doctrine" that includes pre-emptive strikes. This policy has been in the works for many years on reflection of the past wars of the 20th century alone. In this film, a variety of people are asked "Why We Fight?" with a variety of answers, followed by a look at today's U.S. military industrial complex via interviews with individuals involved with it...