MORE ON ADAM CURTIS AND LOVING MACHINES

Having just viewed the second instalment of Adam Curtis's wonderful film All Watched Over By Loving Machines...I am more convinced than ever that this man's research and viewpoint bears attention.  Much of what he illustrates and discusses has been central to my life and times not to mention uppermost in my mind.  I always wondered why people's instinctive behaviour consistently contradicted best advice and that the very effort of following best advice usually negated the intention of the advice in the first place.  I am of the view that the instinctive behaviour of the species is best suited to its survival.  If we had been controlled and careful regarding the environment we'd all be living like the Amish.  It is our instinct to consume, to assert our dominance over others, to pollute, to destroy, to question, to build, to believe, to celebrate and to die while others live on.

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Gray

Adam Curtis Genius Film Maker and Social Commentator

I saw Watched Over by Loving Machines the other night and I cannot get it out of my mind.  I am over sixty.  I worked for more than twenty five years in the Financial Services industry in the City of London and before that I was a journalist.  I am not stupid or naive and I read and watch financial and geopolitical news incessantly.  Adam Curtis demonstrated to me that I am however, ignorant.  His ability to tie together difficult to connect events is astounding and though I am yet to be convinced his proposition is correct, he has set me on a path of inquiry that is all at once entertaining, educational and enlightening.  I am grateful to this extraordinary man.