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Counterpoint: Adam Curtis is a pretentious bore. His films feature massively overegged theses, based on a flimsy evidence base. His ideas are trivial, but he th
by dash2 3y ago
Counterpoint: Adam Curtis is a pretentious bore. His films feature massively overegged theses, based on a flimsy evidence base. His ideas are trivial, but he thinks they are deep.
- kouru225 3y agoI used to feel this way, but then I slowly realized that Curtis tends to appear to have more of a thesis than he ever actually does. The movies are less a traditional essay, and more a social history of ideas and their consequences. What the ideas mean isn’t as important to him as how the ideas influence us. By tracing the history of memes (in the Richard Dawkins sense of the word), he’s providing a service that almost no one else is providing.