Snuffly evening rescued by...

[smokingboot]

Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation

Long but worth it. 

Comments

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I agree. Have you watched Bitter Lake?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I have never even heard of it!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

There's a lot I seem to miss...

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit cut off too. We don't even have a TV anymore. I'm probably living inside one of those internet opinion bubbles that Adam Curtis described.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I honestly do my best not to, with good and bad results. Positively I learn, negatively, there's nothing more condusive to misanthropy than listening to a lot of people!

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Bitter Lake is the film Adam Curtis made before HyperNormalisation, focussing on Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan since the 1940s.

Thanks!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

That sounds very interesting. I will see if I can find it online.