At first, I envisioned doing a review of The Century of the Self only. I plowed through the whole thing, and got a lot from it, yesterday. National Beer Day according to Ad Week sources. I imbibed my allotment (loving Big Brother -- kidding) and later, after crossing paths with a major Tweeter, I took in said Self movies.
I woke up this morning thinking Youtube had been talking about Qaddafi for awhile. People spell that all kinds of ways, but yes, I mean the Libyan leader.
Long timers with this blog, or speed readers, will discover Urners (family name) getting involved with Libyans in the 1960s and 1970s, and with Egypt later, then Bangladesh (also largely Muslim if you're tracking by #religion).
Dad was an urban and regional planner, eager to share his newly minted skills with the developing world.
Responsible leadership sees a need for planning and shares plans as a demonstration of providing leadership. Beyond this value in the moment, if the plans are any good, they're even followable. That's what planning had figured out: how to manage growth through zoning (different from micromanagement).
Given the family associations and interest in recent history generally, I went back to the start and followed Hypernormalization (by Adam Curtis) through some number of rabbit holes.
I'm actually still exploring in that one. These documentaries are long, multi-parters. As they should be, given the complexity of the subject matter.
However, another Adam Curtis movie, and I only just recently connected the dots, is The Power of Nightmares, which gets a lot of internal links in my own personal blogosphere. I saw that one in a real theater, one of Portland's finest, in the basement of an art museum.
I was blown away by how the narrative came together and curved back on itself. Spherical thinking. What I blah blah about in my own Youtube channel.
I'm not going to recap all these movies in one go. However they do criss-cross over the same time period (all mentioned so far). It would make sense to go for a recap.
Given the need to keep the stories manageable, within the longer multi-part series, one can't take every trailhead or follow every leading. There's an opportunity cost to investing too much attention in ways that won't pay off at home base, as someone base-minded might put it. You've got a story to tell, meaning you've got a story to cut away.
The "negative tetrahedron" that gets cut away in the Self movies, might include Werner Erhard as a bridge to this negative Universe (outside the scope of these documentary movies), wherein R. Buckminster Fuller shows up, and my whole branch of the storytelling (with ties back to the CIA in several directions, mostly notably through Ed).
So in the 1970s I'm tracking Erhard through Walter Kaufmann at first (Princeton) and then, having experienced said est Training in New Jersey (while still at the university), continued volunteering in New York, while serving the Dominicans as a high quality high school teacher.
When the Centers Network switched its attention to Bucky, I noticed, and got more noticed, at around the same time.
Later, in the 1980s, I would move back to Portland and see my first Adam Curtis movie.
Is he still making them? It's not too late to criss-cross again, although maybe he feels he sufficiently covered the Bucky chapter in the Cyberspace (Cyberia) episode, as I saw a geodesic dome or two fly by, in some Tron-like rendering -- or was that an acid trip?
Anyway, thank you Adam Curtis, for making some really interesting, if dystopian, documentaries. I'm planning to finish watching Hypernormalization next, then probably do a proper review of that one by itself.
I woke up this morning thinking Youtube had been talking about Qaddafi for awhile. People spell that all kinds of ways, but yes, I mean the Libyan leader.
Long timers with this blog, or speed readers, will discover Urners (family name) getting involved with Libyans in the 1960s and 1970s, and with Egypt later, then Bangladesh (also largely Muslim if you're tracking by #religion).
Dad was an urban and regional planner, eager to share his newly minted skills with the developing world.
Responsible leadership sees a need for planning and shares plans as a demonstration of providing leadership. Beyond this value in the moment, if the plans are any good, they're even followable. That's what planning had figured out: how to manage growth through zoning (different from micromanagement).
Given the family associations and interest in recent history generally, I went back to the start and followed Hypernormalization (by Adam Curtis) through some number of rabbit holes.
I'm actually still exploring in that one. These documentaries are long, multi-parters. As they should be, given the complexity of the subject matter.
However, another Adam Curtis movie, and I only just recently connected the dots, is The Power of Nightmares, which gets a lot of internal links in my own personal blogosphere. I saw that one in a real theater, one of Portland's finest, in the basement of an art museum.
I was blown away by how the narrative came together and curved back on itself. Spherical thinking. What I blah blah about in my own Youtube channel.
I'm not going to recap all these movies in one go. However they do criss-cross over the same time period (all mentioned so far). It would make sense to go for a recap.
Given the need to keep the stories manageable, within the longer multi-part series, one can't take every trailhead or follow every leading. There's an opportunity cost to investing too much attention in ways that won't pay off at home base, as someone base-minded might put it. You've got a story to tell, meaning you've got a story to cut away.
The "negative tetrahedron" that gets cut away in the Self movies, might include Werner Erhard as a bridge to this negative Universe (outside the scope of these documentary movies), wherein R. Buckminster Fuller shows up, and my whole branch of the storytelling (with ties back to the CIA in several directions, mostly notably through Ed).
So in the 1970s I'm tracking Erhard through Walter Kaufmann at first (Princeton) and then, having experienced said est Training in New Jersey (while still at the university), continued volunteering in New York, while serving the Dominicans as a high quality high school teacher.
When the Centers Network switched its attention to Bucky, I noticed, and got more noticed, at around the same time.
Later, in the 1980s, I would move back to Portland and see my first Adam Curtis movie.
Is he still making them? It's not too late to criss-cross again, although maybe he feels he sufficiently covered the Bucky chapter in the Cyberspace (Cyberia) episode, as I saw a geodesic dome or two fly by, in some Tron-like rendering -- or was that an acid trip?
Anyway, thank you Adam Curtis, for making some really interesting, if dystopian, documentaries. I'm planning to finish watching Hypernormalization next, then probably do a proper review of that one by itself.
