Cannes & Bullshit
May. 12th, 2005 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chenanceouThe Power of Nightmares, a made for television series by Adam Curtis, has been re-edited as a feature and is being shown this Saturday at Cannes. It's basically a political analysis of the causes and consequences of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon (yes, 9/11). No, it's not a replay of Farenheit 9/11 since it avoids the histrionics and selective editing of Mr. Moore and is pretty much a documentary. Unfortunately, it seems that the US will not get to see it*, since American television has failed to show any interest in it (the quote, provided by Mr. Curtis, of the head of a network was: We would get slaughtered if we put this out.) - the funny bit is that al-Jazeera (Arab television) was due to screen it, with no cuts, last night.
It never stops shocking me how little information average Americans seems to have on their own history and, to a disquieting extent, the history of other countries. If for no other reason, The Power of Nightmares should be seen as a means of learning a bit more about the different views on what brought about yet another war and 52% increase of hate crimes towards Muslims in the US - among other things.
On unrelated news, or not, an academic essay on bullshit by Harry Frankfurt, philosopher emeritus at Princeton University, has become an instant success when release as a book. >On Bullshit< is selling at about 50 books/day rate and that, my fellow unappreciated writer, is no bullshit.
I hope those of you reading this entry have a good weekend. I'm off to attend to family affairs and, possibly, to bury myself in all sorts of wonderful books while eating great, if prohibitive caloric, cuisine. Something nice, at last.
*It played on film festivals and will probably get an art house release, but no television so far.No, not even HBO.
It never stops shocking me how little information average Americans seems to have on their own history and, to a disquieting extent, the history of other countries. If for no other reason, The Power of Nightmares should be seen as a means of learning a bit more about the different views on what brought about yet another war and 52% increase of hate crimes towards Muslims in the US - among other things.
On unrelated news, or not, an academic essay on bullshit by Harry Frankfurt, philosopher emeritus at Princeton University, has become an instant success when release as a book. >On Bullshit< is selling at about 50 books/day rate and that, my fellow unappreciated writer, is no bullshit.
Excrement is not designed or crafted at all.
It is merely emitted or dumped. It may have
a more or less coherent shape, or it may not,
but it is in any case certainly not wrought.
It is merely emitted or dumped. It may have
a more or less coherent shape, or it may not,
but it is in any case certainly not wrought.
I hope those of you reading this entry have a good weekend. I'm off to attend to family affairs and, possibly, to bury myself in all sorts of wonderful books while eating great, if prohibitive caloric, cuisine. Something nice, at last.
*It played on film festivals and will probably get an art house release, but no television so far.No, not even HBO.
