"In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered their people. Those dreams failed, and today, people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life, but now they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us from nightmares."They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand, and the greatest danger of all is international terrorism: a powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries across the world, a threat that needs to be fought by a war on terror. But much of this threat is a fantasy which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It's a dark illusion that has spread through governments around the world, security services, and the international media."This is a series of films about how and why that fantasy was created, and who it benefits."At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neoconservatives, and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world, and both had a very similar explanation of what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret organized evil that threatens the world, a fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful."- Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares
8 years ago
Complex Lyric
Me Earl and the Dying Girl anyone? No? Just me? Okay.
8 years ago
Sammy Sue
Subtle beautiful genius
8 years ago
Arthur Sid
"I'll come running to tie your shoes"
8 years ago
internettoughguy
im deaf and still feeling it
9 years ago
Anatto Sw
Un'artista che ha segnato la musica con un prima di lui e un dopo.
9 years ago
jani pashkvan
how not to like this song?
9 years ago
The Night Flier
"The Lovely Bones" brought me here
9 years ago
Jérôme Chassagnard
9 years ago
Paulo Frade
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The lovely bones !!!!!
9 years ago
Kristian Gotić
lovely tune a bit melancholic but lovely nevertheless :)