My lingering feeling that he sucks/is an op is growing. I’ve long figured that nobody truly subversive would be getting published by the BBC. The majority of his latest work is a borderline anti communist hit piece tbh.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Having your non-Marxist, less correct and borderline anticommunist takes disseminated by the national media arm of a bourgeois imperialist state is rather damning evidence of being an op imo, even if the author or distributor is not aware of the op. I’m sure Adam would agree.

      Not to say I don’t find his films enjoyable, some of his other work I’ve found very educational and they obviously have an aesthetic charm. I just haven’t come across anticommunism as harsh as this in the other films I’ve seen of his.

      • spectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        being an op

        What exactly does it mean to "be an op" to you?

        • captcha [any]
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          4 years ago

          People do abuse "being an op" too much... Adam Curtis is an OP no more than Michael Moore is. Sometimes documentarians have bad takes and if they have perfect takes that went perfectly against power structures then they wouldn't have a budget and be relevant for obvious reasons.

          There are some ops for sure but it really means nothing to speculate if they are or not. Like if you actually knew some modernist artists were CIA funded while they were making art, what good would it do you? Just criticise the bad takes for what they are and explain why instead of wasting your time trying to convince people someone is an op and why your not a loon for believing in ops

          The most powerful feature of doing psyops is that their still effective even when you know they're real. Just insinuating that your doing psyops to someone is an effective psyop.

        • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          “Op” is shorthand. You don’t have to be directly in the employ of the government (even though Curtis literally is lol) for the outcome of your actions to work in their favour.