[brunorsini]

Adam Curtis made a fantastic documentary on the darker side of our relationship with technology. I don't agree with all of his points, but it's still a great watch.

From Wikipedia: Curtis argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

[djtango]

My main takeaway from that series was the anecdotes about the communes living in geodesic domes who operated under a hierarchy-less system but all of them allegedly imploded due to a common mechanism:

In a community that has no explicit rules, implicit rules emerge. Power accumulates quietly to the people who know the rules and can bend them often. In those situations the powerless are even more vulnerable to the powerful because of the lack of an explicit power structure with rules that would usually require checks and balances in order for people to opt into the system.

[kreyenborgi]

> In a community that has no explicit rules, implicit rules emerge

This is The Tyranny of Structurelessness: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

[mjburgess]

And how often do we hear a demand to 'direct' democracy, egalitarianism, the end of policing, and so on.. from those with a-little-to-much but clearly not-enough, power?

There's rarely anything more in people's political prescriptions other than, "I do not have enough power, and I want more" -- and there's nothing inherently wrong with this demand. Only that when it is disguised by the false promise of power for everyone, it means power for almost no one.

[eru]

Alas, that 'documentary' is long on insinuation and short on facts. As is typical of that auteur.

[dijksterhuis]

yeah, but the soundtrack is brilliant. so…

/s