Why there are so many “web presences” that simply disappear over time or remain forever in a single form? Why so many people including myself end up abandoning their spaces because of practical reasons? Sharing information nowadays is more about a speedy an easy-to-spot way, writing and reading demands in fact the oposite: patience and effort, idea and concentration. Many acquaintances have ended up giving up their blogs and sites and gone twitting, myspacing or facebooking in order to save customization time and just be practical, be fast. Should I also give up?
I was recently checking a very important documentary made by Adam Curtis from the BBC in 2001. I think it’s important because it contents hours of amazing footage and of valuable information. It is important because it presents a very complex-to-approach subject and makes it in a narrative, personal and emotive way. It is important because it tries to shock and awake, and it is important because it develops a very critical essay on our culture with a passionate tone. Trying to go away from the enthusiastic way with which they narrate the contribution of Freud’s Theories to shape most of worlds’ mass control mechanisms, I focused on the essentials, being these:
-There is a ruling business class with time and power to plan complex mediatic maneuvers with massive effects in the “collective unconscious”.
-Western world could be described a mass of “individualist individuals” that can be controlled by predicting their behavioral tendencies and basic instincts.
I was not very surprised. Though in more specific segments it gives you a good mirror to channel contemporary media issues. Read More…
This post was written by admin on November 16, 2009