Adam Curtis’ “Bitter Lake”: A Review 5 years ago
Playing over the BBC archived footage is Scubaz's 'The Vanishing American Family', a title card in Arial font with something ominous and foreboding like 'The Last Panopticon' or 'The Mesmerising Autarch' appears on screen before a publicly educated Southern begins his voiceover: But life wasn’t always as it seemed. In far away Angola, Marshal Dos Santos took the same lessons that the bankers and power brokers of New York learnt but instead of applying it to the teamsters and unions, he would apply it on a systematic scale to his people. It was the worlds first information war and it was being jointly sponsored by both the Soviets and Americans.