shifts your entire worldview in 3 hours
Shifts your entire worldview in 3 hours
Is this another sam hyde thing?
Zeitgeist for guardian readers
shifts your entire worldview in 3 hours and feels great while doing so
"oh man it's been a long ass while so much shit has happened since..."
last docu series was in 2021
jfc 4 years simultaneously feels like an instant and forever
weird feel
but then something strange happened
But what OP didn’t realise, was that sometime earlier, in the fracturing cultural landscape of the late 1990s, a group of Simpsons writers, steeped in layers of irony and self-referential humor, deliberately crafted the sign — “Sneed’s Feed & Seed (formerly Chuck’s)” — as a sly, offhand joke. Yet what they couldn’t have predicted was how, in the swelling digital chaos of the 2000s, this minor gag would be excavated by online communities and transformed into a kind of absurdist totem: a meaningless phrase that, through endless repetition on forums and imageboards, became a symbol of the internet’s craving for in-jokes, detachment, and the strange comfort of recursive meaninglessness. And as OP sat there, read the Sneed gag without knowing why, he too became part of it — another echo in the loop, laughing at a joke whose meaning had long since slipped away.
have a bad thought
become mentally scarred for life
half of it is the narrator fellating himself
As society was collapsing in the Soviet Union, it was so self-evident that it was undeniable. The elites who controlled the media couldn’t say society wasn’t falling apart because that would be a transparent lie. The best they could do was to defend the status quo. “Why would you listen to people saying that the quality of life is bad? The way things are is good enough! Things could always be worse!”
It didn't, But it was fun and I unlocked some memory fragments.
You niggas talking about being one with nature and shit are annoying.
dude you have to trip one time it will
SHIFFFF YOUR WHOLE PERSPECTIVE MAAAAAN
There is no better indicator of a brainlet than this sentence and I say that as someone who does fuck tons of drugs
how does this compare to "can't get you out of my head", that's the only curtis i've seen
sneed was genuinely popular tho
Yes, after alternative firms were blocked and crowded out, after it was forced into every venue, pushed by every newspaper, detractors bullied and sidelined, etc., public resistance was overcome using Bernaysian tactics. SURE.
Oh but you don't understand
Most Anon Babble historians of have known this for ages. Nobody gets to the top on merit except in rare circumstances, the arts, literature and culture industry has been like this since at least the 1940s.
adam curtis is probably the best social commentary videos ever made, he finds a way to make things not too bleek and wingnut but still bringing the message forward to people above 100 IQ that can read the subtext
no, if anything the narration is very straightforward, if a bit on the dryer side
the editor on the other hand...
truth nuke
that one in particular is very meandering as far as Curtis stuff goes
you might like the other ones better if you found that it dragged on before the last chapter where it all comes together like I did
it conveniently sums up the worldview he presents in his other docus up to that point as well
proof that if you have a fancy accent, and use big words, you can spout the most inane bullshit imaginable, and the average person will think you're a genius
See also: Graham Hancock
Who are you quoting?
tinnitus goes from eeeeee to EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE for 3 hours
I like Adam Curtis but take his stuff with a traincar of salt. Anytime he talks about events you are personally familiar with you will see what I mean.
Has he made anything since that 8 episode China doc other than the raw footage of the Soviet Union he put together from the BBC archives?
I checked. This looks awful.
You smell your own farts
tall poppy syndrome
the older I get the less I believe in objective facts and I start adopting views closer to his
a large part of his commentary centers on the subjectivity of events and how they shape our shared narrative, and ultimately define our internal views
so yeah if you lived through most of this stuff you "know" events transpired a certain way but he strings it all together to make a bigger point about the nature of narratives, not necessarily to advocate for one over the other
and ultimately define our internal views
and I should add that the emphasis really is on policy making in this regard
manufacturing consent isn't something Curtis invented or discovered, but he does it justice with the added audiovisual flair imo
whoa... according to the BBC Russia and Assad are actually to blame for everything... Adam Curtis truly is the King of anti establishment thinking...
there are still people who fall for Curtis' shenanigans
the only valuable information out of this entire film is the Surkov bit - the demonstration that Putin actively funds the most deranged opposition parties to make anyone else look insane and cement his position. Then when confronted he openly admits it so now any opposition is suspected of just being govt stooges. It's quite brilliant
the internet really has desensitized your brain to le edgy hot take of the week
this is the same guy that release Power of nightmares a couple of years after 9/11 during the height of the Iraq war
"lol so what bro"
goes back to watching political streamers whine about topic of the week
I'm desensitized to his explicit conclusions in multiple documentaries?
"The Power of Nightmares" argues that radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organisation, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth, or noble lie, perpetrated by leaders of many countries—and particularly neoconservatives in the U.S.—in a renewed attempt to unite and inspire their people after the ultimate failure of utopian ideas.
now that IS edgy
You sound like a retard
amazing contribution
you're very smart
Yeah I agree, his docus and particularly Hypernormalisation are captivating and sometimes he strikes a nerve about how We Live In A Society etc but if you pay close attention to the narrative a lot of it is stoner talk with 4-syllable words.
His discussion with Russel Brand is a banger btw:
youtube.com
zoomers forget but at some point it was politically correct to call for rivers of blood from the genocide of every single towel head in existence and to think otherwise was literally blasphemy
now they're our greatest allies and we (still) sell them all their weapons
call for rivers of blood from the genocide of every single towel head in existence
but this is still the chosen people take and therefore the correct one
Isn't this all just a repackaging of Baudrillard's work?
watching this stoned out of my mind feels like finding the answers to modernity but then I forget them the next day
the older I get the less I believe in objective facts
I'm with this guy . You sound retarded.
you laugh about it when you're one click away from one of the most popular boards on this website which is known for its "alternative facts"
I doubt your own worldviews would survive even minor scrutiny for how objective you think they are
god you faggots are insufferable
you can't even engage with anything sincerely anymore because you faggots are too insecure to actually reply with anything that doesn't automatically screen as CRINGE or BASED
you're so fucking corny
the older I get the less I believe in objective facts
His documentaries always sound like some drunken dudebro explaining to you how things "really are" and then doubling down on his shit take over and over spinning a yarn that makes some sort of schizo sense but will evaporate as soon as you both stop talking about it, but all delivered in a calm voice.
It always sounds like he's trying to convince himself of his own theorycrafting.
Check it out
BBC watermark
Oh...it can't be that bad
Le orange man in the first couple of minutes
Yeah...no thanks
Haven’t seen it but I can tell that it’s pseud shit midwit wank just on vibes
It is THE most pseud shit midwit wank.
good, don't. movies like this can turn midwits like you into mass murderers.
thiiiiiiissss
Bitter Lake > Century of the Self > Hypernormalisation
the existence of subjectivity means outright discarding the notion of facts
yeah I have to say I'm with this guy
who is in turn with this guy
and say you sound retarded
means outright discarding the notion of facts
oh wow you did the thing again
they really should make downvotes for retards like you if you're not even going to bother reading
or engaging at all past cringe (downvote) or based (upvote)
bunch of vapid mongoloids
if you're not even going to bother reading
yeah let's read again
"the less I believe in objective facts"
People call him a shyster and mock his style all the time, but this still seems like one of the home run explanations for modern politics to me. He just gets proven more and more right as time goes on. Especially keeping in mind the Commodus style Clownshow first quarter of the American Presidency we're currently in. Hard to believe this was the very START of the trump era.
Then again thanks to this guy I still kind of think Al Qaeda was a conspiracy (no on else believes or talks about this now. Just me), so maybe I'm just impressionable.