Friday, June 10, 2011

Adam Curtis, my favorite BBC Bolshevik

Adam Curtis is kind of my hero. He left academia and joined the BBC, where he makes this remarkable documentaries detailing various schemes, plots and fantasies by different segments of the financial, security and political elite. Also, he hates rational choice theory, which gets you a lot of points in my book. He's been working for 25+ years, and most of his stuff is on youtube, but here is the first part of his latest series, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, which features Californian techno-utopianism prominently:


Disclaimer: To my knowledge, Adam Curtis is not a Bolshevik

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