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Adam Curtis is best known for his All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace(2011). Curtis' unique historical connections re-shape our perspectives on modern problems, and can inform us about whether our politics does or does not address them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
This shorter segment from his 2016 documentary, HyperNormalisation, looks at how Trump and Putin have used their wealth and power to confuse the masses by obstructing any view of their operations, and fabricating similar narratives to explain what collective people see.
Perception management corporations are all over the planet.
These politics of reality are recent, insurgent forms of power. They have taken hold of Eurasian and Western societies, led by confidence men who say "truth is not truth," wearing down science, research and journalism.
We The People politics must be informed by these shapeshifters' efforts to beat whole nations into helplessness to know what's real and what's fake.
If you're interested in the above, the longer version of HyperNormalisation is below. I highly recommend viewing any of his documentaries, but especially the two posted here.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)Organized, focused anger is becoming the only remedy.
Anger is a gift to be used in service of justice and peace.
Even as Adam Curtis shows the ugliness of abuse of money and power, he also strengthen's people's hearts and minds to "read" that power and never let its wielders gain a foothold on our government and society.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)I'm beginning the next one, now I will let you know. Thanks again.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Layzeebeaver
(1,574 posts)...is in my opinion one of the greatest documentarians in recent history.
I suggest folks watch "Bitter Lake" as well.
Frankly, when I watch his work my brain hurts, but in a good way.
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)Curtis makes some very astute connections but he's wrong in thinking that "perception management" was birthed by computer algorithms. It's just the very latest term for propaganda, as defined by the psychologist Edward Bernays before WWI -- how to influence group opinion.
But the need to influence groups goes back to the mists of human history, and has been done with greater or lesser success by leaders throughout history, using whatever technology was available to popularize the leader's ideas.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)perception management does actual astroturfing of divisive collective political action, based on false claims and propaganda.
It's also become Dept of Defense-sponsored and State Dept-sponsored, not just oriented to corporate true/false ad buys, as in the past. The Tea Party was the most obvious example to most Americans, except teapartiers.