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Today, the filmmaker Adam Curtis

on why it feels like nothing in Britain makes sense anymore

and what we can do about it.

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An Adam Curtis's documentary can be hard to describe.

In the past, politicians promised to create a better world.

In films covering the war on terror.

Those dreams failed.

And today, people have lost faith in ideologies.

The rise of advertising. ...is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd

in an age of mass democracy.

The way computers and machines didn't just change the way we live.

They changed the way we think.

Computer utopians in California believe that if human beings were linked by webs of computers,

then together they could create their own kind of order.

Adam Curtis tells the stories not just of the events and people that made the world we live in,

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