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Good counterpoint to keep in mind. I think there’s an element of truth to it, but overall IMO it overstates both the Brezhnev comparison and the pomo hall of mirrors idea, as you might expect from an Adam Curtis starting point. There’s a there there beyond symbols here.
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A tentative thread on the Biden speech Adam Curtis once leaned heavily on the book 'Everything was forever, until it was no more' by Alexei Yurchak - a slightly odd book about the way that language in the Soviet Union slowly degraded.
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