Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself iv
Adam Curtis responds to the review of MediaLens on his documentary The Power of Nightmares.
You want me to have made a different series – about the underlying role of business. That would be a completely different programme – a perfectly good and very important subject – but different. You are doing the same as you have done in the past, you criticise me for not making the programme that I never intended to make in the first place.
To which MediaLens replies, somewhat predictably:
Curtis goes on to claim mistakenly, once again, that politicians have only recently discovered use of fear as a device for restoring power and legitimacy: “This is why I argued that politicians have found in fear a way of restoring their power and authority and recreating a sense of legitimacy. I do not in any way think it is a conspiracy – I think they have stumbled on it. Put simply, they have found a grand, dark force to protect people against – and they can use the power of the state to do this. It is a mirror image of the positive future they used to promise us – but now it is a frightening future they promise to protect us from.”
Curtis here contradicts his previous acknowledgement that manipulation of fear is an old ploy, and returns to the discredited notion that this is a +recent+ development by politicians afraid of losing their legitimacy in the eyes of the public.
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