Check out Adam Curtis' newest documentary, HyperNormalization. Among many, many, fascinating topics, Curtis details the fluctuating celebration and denouncemen

Check out Adam Curtis' newest documentary, HyperNormalization. Among many, many, fascinating topics, Curtis details the fluctuating celebration and denouncement of Col. Qaddafi of Libya by western powers and media as a means to distract from the more complicated issues that were actually linked instead to Syria, such as the Lockerbie bombing. Syria, for decades, has both been a distraction and a distractive force in great power politics. We're only really paying attention now because, as Thomas L. Friedman put it: "Libya implodes, Syria explodes.