The Living Dead, E1: On the Desperate Edge of Now Out of the carnage in #Europe 50 years ago, the #Allies selected certain #memories. They used them to build the official version of the good war. This film is about how that happened. It tells why certain memories have to be buried and forgotten because they contradicted the optimism of the big historical picture. #TheLivingDead (subtitled Three Films About the #Power of the Past) was the second major documentary made by the film-maker #AdamCurtis. 1. On the Desperate Edge of Now. This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War period. For Germany, this began at the Nuremberg Trials, where attempts were made to prevent the #Nazis in the dock—principally Hermann Göring—from offering any rational argument for what they had done. Subsequently, however, bringing lower-ranking Nazis to justice was effectively forgotten about in the interests of maintaining West Germany as an ally in the Cold War. 1. You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough. In this episode, the history of brainwashing and mind control was examined. The angle pursued by Curtis was the way in which psychiatry pursued tabula rasa theories of the mind, initially in order to set people free from traumatic memories and then later as a potential instrument of social control. The work of Ewen Cameron was surveyed, with particular reference to Cold War theories of communist brainwashing and the search for hypnoprogammed assassins. 3. The Attic. In this episode, the Imperial aspirations of Margaret Thatcher were examined. The way in which #MrsThatcher used public relations in an attempt to emulate Winston Churchill in harking back to Britains glorious past to fulfil a political or national end. The title is a reference to the attic flat at the top of 10 Downing Street, which was created during Thatchers period refurbishment of the house, which did away with the Prime Ministers previous living quarters on lower floors. tsu.co/ConspiracyMafia/30843802
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:33:25 +0000