@jackyan
> Canʼt Get You out of My Head dragged on and was less compelling

I think Jeremy Gilbert made a good point that some episodes are better than others.

The stuff about the Cultural Revolution I found quite insightful. I knew the broad strokes of that history, but there's a lot to explore. It definitely shifted my perspective on Deng Xiaoping, who I'd mistakenly seen as a less doctrinaire reformer.

@jonathanharker recommended Russia Trauma Zone, so this looks like my next Curtis watch.

"And if I was going to write a ghost story of now, I would do it about that, we are haunted ... Which makes me suspect - for which I have no evidence at all - that AI is not the future, it's the final end of the past. It's the moment at which the past came for us. We will have to escape from it."

#AdamCurtis, The Rest is Entertainment, Jan 19, 2025

https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/A27C8C/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT8110019720.mp3?updated=1750246534

I've read and heard a *lot* of commentary on the cult of #MOLE Training, and this is the most insightful so far.

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