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
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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