Adam Curtis is a genius. From Can't Get You Out Of My Head Documentary on BBC

movement was astonished by the violent reaction of the german government and horst mahler and other radicals began to think that the problem was far deeper than just individual nazis but maybe the whole nazi system had also survived and was hiding behind the facade of modern capitalism [Music] they argued that the very system of industrial rationality and bureaucratic control that had made the nazi state so efficient had simply mutated it had been taken up by the victors above all by america and was now being used to run the new global capitalism and the multinational corporations that were ruthlessly exploiting what was called the third world anything that stood in the system's way was bombed or burnt with weapons created by the same rational industrial techniques that made the mass consumer goods but the people in the west couldn't see this because they had been led into a dream world that used mass consumerism and sexualized imagery to entrance and distract everyone in reality it was an iron cage designed to look like an open and free welfare state a full state of peace that was built really on horror and war we were convinced that our situation here the welfare state is only possible and the result by the exploitation of the third world and we said we must disturb this peace this this false peace in our country in order to show the responsibility of us that it is our task to implement sabotage in the centers of imperialism [Music] of course racist america has done it again but that's not going to end the burning and burning you know in detroit brother cause we built the country up and we'll burn it down honkies and all right you tell them to burn down that school be serious i ain't got to tell black folks what they're burning if you're telling them did i tell him to burn down detroit did i tell him did i tell the america to bring black people here you tell them to shoot at lady bird i say if they give me a gun if you help me shoot my enemy i might shoot you where have you been the other night [Music] non-violence is okay but you get nowhere with non-violence i like violence that will make

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Published: Mon Jul 25 2022