The Politics Of Fear...
Given what is unfolding in the world today, here's
an interesting documentary that you should watch. It's
called "The Power Of Nightmares" and it was written
and produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC.
It was released in 2005, so it won't answer all of your
questions about the war on terror today, but what it will
do, is supply you with a truthful foundation about the
rise of Islamic fundamentalism, as well as it's sister,
Straussian Neo Conservatism.
This is a 3 part documentary and I highly recommend it.
One day soon, many of these resources will no longer be
available on the internet. If you haven't done so, go to
Best Buy, or your favorite electronics store and buy
yourself a 500GB, or a 1 TB portable hard drive, and start
building your library.
You can watch, and download "The Power Of Nightmares"
from the link below:
archive.org
Part I - "Baby It's Cold Outside"
Part II - "The Phantom Victory"
Part III - "Shadows In The Cave"
Here's producer Adam Curtis' introduction from the BBC's website.
news.bbc.co.uk
"In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.
The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.
In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.
It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.
At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists.
Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world.
These two groups have changed the world but not in the way either intended.
Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror network.
A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful.
The rise of the politics of fear begins in 1949 with two men whose radical ideas would inspire the attack of 9/11 and influence the neo-conservative movement that dominates Washington.
Both these men believed that modern liberal freedoms were eroding the bonds that held society together.
The two movements they inspired set out, in their different ways, to rescue their societies from this decay. But in an age of growing disillusion with politics, the neo-conservatives turned to fear in order to pursue their vision.
They would create a hidden network of evil run by the Soviet Union that only they could see.
The Islamists were faced by the refusal of the masses to follow their dream and began to turn to terror to force the people to "see the truth."
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SOTB |
