Shifty: The Land of Make Believe, Adam Curtis 2025

SS: The latest BBC documentary from Bafta Award winner, Adam Curtis

Starts off with, what should be, a familiar face to most people in this sub

For anyone not familiar with Curtis’ work The Century of the Self is a great place to start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232/

The power of nightmares:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3wz-OyR1U

and hypernormalisation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y

Are quite good as well

For anyone with an interest in economics and the philosophy of “New Public Management, I also recommend: The Trap | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbQcqJh52U8&t

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0979263/