I thought that it was mostly Ayn Rand / Austrian economists who used those terms so it’s odd to hear Adam Curtis make that an explicit part of his analysis.
I thought that it was mostly Ayn Rand / Austrian economists who used those terms so it’s odd to hear Adam Curtis make that an explicit part of his analysis.
Definitely. For someone who is fascinated with power, he seems to make a point of ignoring class and the power dynamics it creates.
MediaLens highlighted something similar when they interacted with him after The Century of the Self was released, and they critiqued what they felt was an over-emphasis on Freud and Bernays role:
https://www.medialens.org/2002/the-bbcs-the-century-of-the-self-sp-89086145/