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Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today. The series traverses themes of love, power, money, the ghosts of empire, the history of China, opium and opioids, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, and the history of Artificial Intelligence. Inspired by the 2016 apex of populism—the political ideology which presents The People as morally good, and The Elite as morally bad—the underlying aim of the series is to show why the critics of Donald Trump and Brexit were unable to offer an alternative vision for the future.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
It's that good.
because Western art and literature in general seem to be getting circumvented generally and I am hoping he gets to that in a more detailed way in the second half of the series.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
Spoiler-alert. You'll feast on the last part.
Curtis offered zilch in that regard beyond a quote of a concept much misunderstood and overly interpreted.
Chapo UK correspondent Adam Curtis returns to discuss the limits of individualism, goodies and baddies, conspiracies, manipulation, and dancing, all through the themes and characters of his new film series Can’t Get You Out of My Head.
I'd choose to follow the determined stubborness of Greta Thunberg any day of the week over that crock of old has-beens and wanna-bes who only have regurgitant to offer a "new" audience.
‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’
Curtis certainly seems to think that individualism is the "problem" but I am increasingly struggling to agree with his perspective and am wondering if it is his perspective that is actually the problem. Hmmm?
Out of this necessity to reconcile the ownership of experience with the capacity for choice arises the level of the individual. Rorty writes:
From the tensions in the definition of the alienable properties of selves, and from the corruptions in societies of selves — the divergence of practice from ideological commitments — comes the invention of individuality. It begins with conscience and ends with consciousness.
Unlike characters and figures, individuals actively resist typing: they represent the universal mind of rational beings, or the unique private voice. Individuals are indivisible entities… Invented as a preserve of integrity, an autonomous ens, an individual transcends and resists what is binding and oppressive in society and does so from an original natural position. Although in its inception, individuality revives the idea of person, the rights of persons are formulated in society, while the rights of individuals are demanded of society. The contrast between the inner and outer person becomes the contrast between the individual and the social mask, between nature and culture.
A society of individuals is quite different from one composed of selves. Individuals contract to assure the basic rights to the development of moral and intellectual gifts, as well as legal protection of self and property. Because a society of individuals is composed of indivisible autonomous units, from whose natures — their minds and conscience — come the principles of justice, their rights are not property; they cannot be exchanged, bartered. Their rights and their qualities are their very essence, inalienable.
I can't relate, but I am done with Curtis and his voice because he hasn' turned that "camera-eye" of his back on himself critically, that's why it is just a navel gazing pastiche of the fear of change while elsewhere the much-disparaged millennials are creating symphonies that are ringing in those changes.
Jungian Archetypes: One area of Jungian psychology that can become a bit overwhelming is his use of the archetype model. Drawn from many of Plato’s ideas Jung archetypes are held by the individual and it is their unique experiences and reinforced through the collective unconsciousness that define their archetypes.