Q&A with 'Power of Nightmares' creator Adam Curtis

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4202741.stm

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1. "A Uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike"

Sound familiar? That organization could be Al-Qaeda, the International Communist Menace, the CIA, or the Devil, depending upon your perspective.

Maybe Adam Curtis is onto some bigger truth here:

"The programmes did not say that there was no threat. What they argued was that although there is a serious threat of terrorism from some radical Islamists, the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organisation waiting to strike our societies is an illusion.

"The question the series tried to answer was why contemporary politicians and other elites, like the media, want you to feel frightened - to behave and feel like a hedgehog trapped on a motorway - when the reality and the scale of the threat is actually very different."

But, that's precisely how elites have always maintained their rule. No collective sacrifices without paranoid myths. Can't sustain political power without both.