The Open Source.TV - Hidden Knowledge Revealed - Free Full Documentaries
Welcome
Login / Register

Adam Curtis - The Power Of Nightmares - Part 1

Your video will begin in 3
You can skip to video in 2

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

URL

You disliked this video. Thanks for the feedback!

Sorry, only registred users can create playlists.
URL


2,954 Views

Description

"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear" consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration.

The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and suggesting a strong connection between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organized force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries " and particularly American Neo-Conservatives " in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

"The Power of Nightmares" has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States and have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives. The first episode explains the origins of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism. It shows Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, the founder of Islamism, visiting America to learn about the education system, but becoming disgusted with what he saw as a corruption of morals and virtues in western society through individualism. At the same time in the United States, a group of disillusioned liberals, including Irving Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz, look to the political thinking of Leo Strauss after the general failure of President Johnson's "Great Society". They come to the conclusion that the emphasis on individual liberty was the undoing of the plan. They envisioned restructuring America by uniting the American people against a common evil, and set about creating a mythical enemy.

Post your comment

Comments

Be the first to comment










Please donate to help keep
TheOpenSource.TV free!

BitCoin: 3M6Na9ZXN4Cz5QGL6tNM8LjCLHJ3u5pheL
LiteCoin: MMGTH2zoZpVHVeiXCa9mrgozzhUCZCP5Wa
Ethereum: 0xc087e03f8a9b48bb715c49f1255c84ad4eccb222


Donate with PayPal:


RSS