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Originally Posted by Bond
I'm watching this on google video right now. It is quite intriuging.
P.S. While this film is still interesting, it certainly doesn't prove anything was a "myth." There's no examination of the Soviet Union, or the Soviet Union's leaders, Marx's ideals on the base and superstructure. It's just, "oh yeah, we proved that last time."
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Its more of the same relatavist nonsense. It's cognitively interesting to make arguments such as "black is white and everything we think is wrong", but in the end it is mental masturbation: Momentarily entertaining, but when the moment is over it means nothing.
Just because you compare our government to terrorists, doesn't make it so, it just means you can manipulate and argument when you are the only voice in the room.
A reviewer compared it to the Matrix in terms of opening eyes, and I would agree. I loved the Matrix as I found it to be a compelling story that played on our sense of certainty and unerlying doubt. But in the end it is fiction, just like the argument "The Power of Nightmare's" atrempts to make.
FYI: I didn't watch the whole thing, but honestly, its all be said before and revisionist history for political expediency is nothing new, and goes back to the Cold War, if not earlier. I huess what bothers me the most about journalists like this is that they act like they're breaking new ground, when all they do is repeat one another ad nauseum.