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    Songs about mental illness -- suggestions please

    Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
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    Adam Curtis

    Frankly, you seem to be quite nihilistic in nature, you seem to disagree because, like you said, you have no faith in humanity and are basically a defeatist. I agree that 'ethical capitalism' may not exist and if it did it would be something else altogether, but then so be it. The only logical...
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    Adam Curtis

    Once again, you have (seemingly deliberately) missed my point. To spell it out one more (last) time, Curtis develops a filmic narrative as a means of helping us to understand the confusions of our duplicitous leaders so as to empower us with the knowledge and understanding that the power they...
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    Adam Curtis

    I mostly agree with you here, by the way. You skimmed over it quickly but the question and hope of ethical capitalism really is the issue here. Personally I admire markets and the way that they work but think more government control tempered equally with ethical accountability so as to...
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    Adam Curtis

    Yea, that wasn't what I was saying - and yes, that is what I was saying, and yes, that is what I'm accusing him of, sort of. His whole line of argument is just ridiculous, populist trash. The list that Mr Tea gives here is a good enough summary to prove that lanugo is spouting unresearched...
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    Adam Curtis

    This and the rest of the post, very good, etc.
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    Adam Curtis

    Lanugo, will all due respect, you sound like you are preaching to a group of business-minded recent public-school-leaving waifs who have been spoon-fed the conservative doctrines of their moneyed parents. Please, refrain from attempting to explain the evils of exploitative capitalism to us - we...
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    Adam Curtis

    I can appreciate what lanugo is saying here but as has been stated, it really is an argument about the accidental/deterministic nature of both the origins and continuing perpetuation of our current global system of unsustainable, exploititive economics. I will once again bring the discussion...
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    Adam Curtis

    Don't understand what would 'get' you about this. The point of the series was to highlight how much this has been overlooked, and how both the utopianism in the pioneering computer age AND the current IT ethos take for granted the notion that computer technology will set us free, whereas in...
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    Adam Curtis

    Perhaps Rand taught him to drop the self-doubting nihilism of his logical positivistic attitude ('am i real? whoah') and embrace a more practical and hardlined morality.
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    Adam Curtis

    I can dig it. Precisely. I think he's really aware of this and thus isn't afraid to make bold statements. It's as if he's doing them for discussions sake alone. In a lot of ways reading his blog for me has been a lot more educational and stimulating than the films. That Afghanistan one...
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    Retromania

    So..
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    Adam Curtis

    Discuss.
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    Adam Curtis

    Different sorts of individualism innit. CoS was talking about the aspect of individualism when it comes to nothing more than a selfish pursuit of petty self-interest, and how this distorts and disempowers peoples' (collective or individual) natural right to political autonomy. Second episode of...
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    Adam Curtis

    'Oh it's a joke' does not at all relate to what I was talking about, you just didn't understand what I was saying. Of course it's important to be critical of what he's saying, but not to the point where your missing out on the subtle humour/sattire etc by taking it all overly-literally...
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    Adam Curtis

    Urgh, can't you see that the narratives he weaves are meant for creative, imaginative purposes - to suggest connections and fundamental human flaws and, in a larger 'poetic' sense, to evoke in the viewer a sense of the archetypal forces guiding human action and running through history. As I...
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    Adam Curtis

    http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?92-The-Power-of-Nightmares-(BBC2-Weds-night)&highlight=power+nightmares I enjoyed reading this whole thread last night, on the topic - a discussion/row from way back in 2004 around Bush re-election time. From it's conclusion, we saw Strauss as...
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    Adam Curtis

    Thanking you for your reply (sounded like Jeremy Clarkson for a minute). Luckily Assange has recently proven your point.
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    Adam Curtis

    ;) This is all great stuff. I guess after watching all of his films a few times and very closely one gets to know pretty well the techniques, and indeed 'trickery', that he uses to draw conclusions and narratives. Even so , they are worth it for artistic, creative, imaginative value and...
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    Adam Curtis

    A big, nasty Fuck You for calling that evil, demonic suckhole Murdoch an 'Antipodean shithead'.. Rob, Melbourne, AU
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