Why is he acting like suicide bombing is a 1980s Iran/Assad invention? Fidayeen go back centuries, similar tactics have always existed.
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Okay, banks to cyberspace via narrative is decently critical path, but weird free leap to techno utopianism #hypernormalization
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This narrative of computing history with main plot weaving through California counterculture and LSD is basically wrong. #hypernormalization
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Adam Curtis was born in 1955. He'd have been 25-35 in 80s. This is basically about how he got woke or something. Not about world.
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1h in. Qadaffi is just not this relevant or good embodiment of larger dynamic he's getting at. N. Korea/Juche now... #hypernormalization
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Qadaffi and UFOs = perception management = bullshit factory = shades of the Bernays story from Century of Self #hypernormalization
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I don't think I'm going to last through #hypernormalization ... random walk from TINA neoliberal doctrine to Black Rock to Prozac.
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Okay, problem with this is not that it's basic thesis is wrong, but that it could apply to any age, not just post 70s #hypernormalization
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What's with this Libya fixation? He threw darts at the through-line narrative board? #hypernormalization
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Curtis, like Trump, really gets "the cyber" #hypernormalization ...I think this is annoying me because it could so easily be 100x better
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He picked out a big/key theme: the normal/weird tack many of us are on. Points for that. But does nothing with it. #hypernormalization 😡
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Ok, done. Skipped a bit in last 1/3. #hypernormalization not recommended. Tedious free association of not-even-interestingly-wrong patterns
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