Can't Get You Out of My Head

Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)

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We are living through strange days.

Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised not just in politics but across the whole culture. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing corruption - and a widespread distrust of the elites.

And into this has come the pandemic that has brutally dramatised those divisions.

But despite the chaos there is a paralysis - a sense that no one knows how to escape from this.

This new series of films by Adam Curtis tell the story of how we got to this place. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.

The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well.

It covers a wide range - including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really part of the new system of power.

And the films are told in a different way - they are an emotional history of what went on inside the heads of all kinds of people.

Because in the age of the individual - what you felt and what you wanted and what you dreamed of were going to become the driving force across the world.

What was forgotten in that age was that much of what we feel is also formed by the society around us. Above all by the power structures.

And now those structures are decaying - everywhere - their weakness and uncertainty makes us feel empty and frightened of the future.

That is what is paralysing us - and blocking us from imagining different kinds of societies and a better future

Can't Get You Out of My Head is an epic history that shows how and why that happened. How we made this particular world. And that it was not inevitable.

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Scheduleevery Thursday at 06:00

Last Episode

Part Six - Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?
Season 1Episode 6120 min

Part Six - Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?

The final episode tells how the strange paralysis that grips us today was created. How all the different forces of our age - that started out as separate have come together to create what is a block against imagining another kind of future than this.

How, money and debt, melancholy over the loss of empire, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opioids, Artificial Intelligence - and love and power have all fed into creating the present time of anxiety and fearfulness about the future.

And whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really also part of the rigid system - in the West and in Russia and China - where those in power have run out of all ideas. The film also lays out what are the different possible roads from here into the future, and the choices we will have to make about the very different futures we will have to choose very soon.

Feb 11, 2021

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E06Part Six - Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?Feb 11, 2021
S01E05Part Five - The Lordly OnesFeb 11, 2021
S01E04Part Four - But What If the People Are Stupid?Feb 11, 2021
S01E03Part Three - Money Changes EverythingFeb 11, 2021
S01E02Part Two - Shooting and F**king are the Same ThingFeb 11, 2021
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  • Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World

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