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Adam Curtis and the self-organising network

May 29th, 2011 · 6 Comments

Very bizarre piece.

How anyone can write on the point without at least mentioning Smith and Hayek is beyond me.

 

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  • 1 Tim Almond // May 29, 2011 at 10:29 am

    He can’t seem to grasp that the Big State lost for a reason.

    In an interview with The Register he talks about how the left doesn’t seem to have any ideas, missing the point that the central idea of the left was tried and shown again and again to fail.

    Rather than addressing these things, he just finds these obscure situations or individuals and tries to use them to disprove ideas he doesn’t seem to like.

    The fact is that this thing we’re doing all this talking on is almost entirely self-organised and works very well.

  • 2 Simon Cooke // May 29, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    AND referring to that unpleasant fascist H G Wells with approval!

  • 3 David Gillies // May 29, 2011 at 6:33 pm

    If I had a time machine I’d travel back to 1912 and kick that rancid cunt H. G. Wells in the balls. What a complete fascistic bell-end. Mussolini with a provincial grocer’s moustache.

  • 4 Ian B // May 29, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    ^^^top comment from David Gillies thar.

  • 5 Chris // May 30, 2011 at 8:17 am

    But a bit of mixed metaphor:

    kick that rancid cunt H. G. Wells in the balls.

  • 6 Stuck-Record // May 31, 2011 at 11:45 am

    But, David, then he’d travel back in time and buy a metal crotch box, and then you’d travel back in time and…

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