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
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