On May 25, 2008, at 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take a look at the documentaries of Adam Curtis; how American
society is manipulated to adopt a extreme form of Capitalism by the
the
"captains of industry" because they ware scared shirtless they would
loose their chance to control society and make more money.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it;
Those who fail to learn history CORRECTLY.. are simply doomed.
It's interesting, but I find that people who attempt to marshall
arguments like yours, or buy into these conspiracy beliefs that human
nature is somehow fundamentally being changed (or something?!) due to
a wide range of events and things in the 20th century would be those
who actually know very little history. It's also just the latest brand
of "the world is coming to an end" apocalypticism that exists in EVERY
generation and no doubt will always exist--it's human nature. The
world is always coming to an end, the next generation is always but a
shadow of the last.
Always interesting to me when looking back, just how many parallels
there are... other than technology, nothing is new! Fashion?
superficiality? Quoted from wikipedia article you linked to "Where
once the political process was about engaging people's rational,
conscious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the
documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis,
politicians appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little
apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a
consumer population."
For example, I think for someone to say that, they would just have to
be monumentally ignorant (that's being charitable--the obvious
conclusion is that they're hacks pushing a worldview that forwards
their own goals!) of any but the most immediate history. If you took a
history of Roman politics and changed a few names around, you could
easily have something indistinguishable from current events...
Anyway though, I think that's about enough offtopic for me too :-)
Scott
