Saturday, August 22, 2015

BITTER LAKE: Making Sense

The traditional stories about bad guys and heroes are clear.

Good guys wear white. They do good deeds.

Bad guys are cruel. They cheat, lie, steal.

Good guys are heroes.

There are missing pieces in these stories.

It is hard to tell by looking at the colours of their dress or their flags or the words in their talks to tell bad guys from heroes. Because good can be bad. And bad can be excellent. It depends who tells these stories.

This particular video gives a specific demonstration of how to interpret and link the missing pieces that are complex and quite senseless.

From it, some inferences and lessons can be drawn to understand how politics, finance, ideology, greed, power, security can forge alliances among enemies and damage relationships among friends.

I found it both educational and frightening.

See how you read the inferences after watching.




Bitter Lake
Adam Curtis 2015 2:16:43
Bitter Lake explores how the realpolitik of the West has converged on a mirror image of itself throughout the Middle-East over the past decades, and how the story of this has become so obfuscating and simplified that we, the public, have been left in a bewildered and confused state. The narrative traverses the United States, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia—but the country at the centre of reflection is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted political figureheads across the West with the truth of their delusions—that they cannot understand what is going on any longer inside the systems they have built which do not account for the real world. Bitter Lake sets out to reveal the forces that over the past thirty years, rose up and commandeered those political systems into subservience, to which, as we see now, the highly destructive stories told by those in power, are inexorably bound to. The stories are not only half-truths, but they have monumental consequences in the real world.

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