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06-01-2011, 12:49 PM
There's nothing we like more on SFJ than a good documentary. Hopefully about monkeys dressed as humans.
Well, Adam Curtis hasn't made one of those yet, unfortunately. But he IS the best documentary maker in Britain at the moment & his latest 3 part series is airing on the BBC at the moment.
His formula is usually to identify a philosophy shared by a small group of people back in the 50's or 60's, & explain how the world has been shaped by it now that some of those people are now in positions of power. He does it very convincingly, using techniques that are not a million miles away from the recruitment film in The Parallax View.
This one connects Ayn Rand to Silicon Valley, hedge funds & Alan Greenspan, & says that Greenspan could've saved the world from the current financial crisis. But he bottled it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c
And Greenspan does look a bit like a monkey. So that'll have to do.
http://i56.tinypic.com/a2anvc.jpg
Well, Adam Curtis hasn't made one of those yet, unfortunately. But he IS the best documentary maker in Britain at the moment & his latest 3 part series is airing on the BBC at the moment.
His formula is usually to identify a philosophy shared by a small group of people back in the 50's or 60's, & explain how the world has been shaped by it now that some of those people are now in positions of power. He does it very convincingly, using techniques that are not a million miles away from the recruitment film in The Parallax View.
This one connects Ayn Rand to Silicon Valley, hedge funds & Alan Greenspan, & says that Greenspan could've saved the world from the current financial crisis. But he bottled it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c
And Greenspan does look a bit like a monkey. So that'll have to do.
http://i56.tinypic.com/a2anvc.jpg