I guess the thing with these movies is the high level narrative is interesting, and at the low level, all the individual historical events discussed are interes

I guess the thing with these movies is the high level narrative is interesting, and at the low level, all the individual historical events discussed are interesting. But the stuff in the middle just isn't there. It strongly feels like he's explaining how one point follows from the next, but he isn't. For instance: in Hypernormalization he tries to make the point that there's some kind of relationship between Western algorithmic social media and terrorism. A lot of people would agree this is plausible. But he doesn't actually explore this point. Instead he just observes that Judea Pearl is a machine learning researcher, and his son Daniel Pearl was beheaded by al-Qaeda members, with the videos uploaded to YouTube, which also uses machine learning (never mind that it's not the kind Judea Pearl worked on). It's just a bunch of correspondences without any actual relationship.