Adam Curtis documentaries; a must see
March 14, 2007
Not sure how many of you saw the new documentary by Adam Curtis on BBC2, Sunday night The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams… but it was as stunning good as his previous work. The documentary continues next Sunday and the following Sunday.
Hopefully the documentary will be online somewhere soon but in the meantime to see some of Curtis’ previous work see archive.org for:
Century of the Self
and
The Power of Nightmares
Strongly recommend The Power of Nightmares.
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c.j.white | March 19, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I did not see the first programme , but was found the second one very interesting
As a GP, the new contract where GP’s have to hit targets inorder to get a larger amount of ourm pat was introduced by Labour in 2004. This new deall left me alienated and unhappy .When GP’s over performed ; that is achieved higher targets than the goverment expected for and they had to pay us more than they had budgeted for ‘ the consequence was a campaign in the media to condemn GP’s as greedy. This year we have been given zero pay rise so the Govement can claw back the money they feel they overpaid us. When they allowed us a little freedom immediately the consequnces were not what they predicted or wished, the Draconian reply came quickly.
People are not simple gene controlled robots , they are much more complex , motivation is not simply greed. People will cheat in any game if we feel we can get away with it.