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Room Asking Tillerson About Russia, China, Ukraine 00:00 00:00 The flmmaker behind cerebral political From RealClearLife documentaries Century of the Self (2002) and The Power of Nightmares (2005) , Retiring 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Doodles Adam Curtis, produced this short for Down Memory Lane BBC's "2014 Wipe" year-in-review Tom Brady Goes From program, which aired Tuesday night in Winning Game–Plan to Hawking Meal Plan the U.K. Ex–NSA Director Says ADAM CURTIS, BBC: So CIA is Not Spying On Us Through Our Tech much of the news this year has been hopeless, depressing, and above all, From RealClearLife confusing. To which the Retiring 'New Yorker' only response is to say, "oh Cartoon Editor Doodles Down Memory Lane dear." Tom Brady Goes From What this flm is going to Winning Game–Plan to Hawking Meal Plan suggest is that that defeatist response has become a Ex–NSA Director Says CIA is Not Spying On Us central part of a new system Through Our Tech of political control. And to understand how this is Video Archives happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called March 2017 Vladislav Surkov, who is a Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa hero of our time. 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Surkov is one of President 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Putin's advisers, and has 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 helped him maintain his 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 power for 15 years, but he 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 has done it in a very new way. Search RealClearPolitics Video He came originally from the Latest Polls All Polls avant-garde art world, and those who have studied his President Trump Job Approval career, say that what Surkov USA Today/Suffolk Approve 47 Disapprove 44 has done, is to import ideas Approve +3 from conceptual art into the President Trump Job Approval very heart of politics. Quinnipiac Approve 41 Disapprove 52 Disapprove +11 His aim is to undermine President Trump Job Approval peoples' perceptions of the Gallup world, so they never know Approve 43 Disapprove 51 Disapprove +8 what is really happening. President Trump Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Surkov turned Russian Approve 51 Disapprove 49 politics into a bewildering, Approve +2 constantly changing piece of More Latest Polls theater. He sponsored all kinds of groups, from neo- Sign up for RC newsletters Nazi skinheads to liberal human rights groups. He even backed parties that were opposed to President Putin. But the key thing was, that Surkov then let it be known that this was what he was doing, which meant that no one was sure what was real or fake. As one journalist put it: "It is a strategy of power that keeps any opposition constantly confused." A ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it is undefnable. It is exactly what Surkov is alleged to have done in the Ukraine this year. In typical fashion, as the war began, Surkov published a short story about something he called non-linear war. A war where you never know what the enemy are really up to, or even who they are. The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the confict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control. *** But maybe, we have something similar emerging here in Britain. Everything we're told by journalists and politicians is confusing and contradictory. Of course, there is no Mr. Surkov in charge, but it is an odd, non- linear world that plays into the hands of those in power. British troops have come home from Afghanistan, but nobody seems to know whether it was a victory or whether it was a defeat. Aging disk jockeys are prosecuted for crimes they committed decades ago, while practically no one in the City of London is prosecuted for the endless fnancial crimes that have been revealed there. In Syria, we are told that President Assad is the evil enemy, but then his enemies turn out to be even more evil than him, so we bomb them, and by doing that, we help keep Assad in power. But the real epicenter of this non-linear world is the economy, and the closest we have to our own shape- shifting post-modern politician is [U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer] George Osborne. He tells us proudly that the economy is growing, but at the same time, wages are going down. He says he is reducing the defcit, but then it is revealed that the defcit is going up. But the dark heart of this shape-shifting world is Quantitative Easing. The government is insisting on taking billions of Pounds out of the economy through its austerity program, yet at the very same time it is pumping billion of Pounds into the economy through Quantitative Easing, the equivalent of 24,000 Pounds for every family in Britain. But it gets even more confusing, because the Bank of England has admitted that those billions of Pounds are not going where they are supposed to. A vast majority of that money has actually found its way into the hands of the wealthiest fve percent in Britain. It has been described as the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich in recent documented history. It could be a huge scandal, comparable to the greedy oligarchs in Russia. A ruthless elite, siphoning of billions in public money. But nobody seems to know. It sums up the strange mood of our time, where nothing really makes any coherent sense. We live with a constant vaudeville of contradictory stories that makes it impossible for any real opposition to emerge, because they can't counter it with any coherent narrative of their own. And it means that we as individuals become ever more powerless, unable to challenge anything, because we live a state of confusion and uncertainty. To which the response is: Oh dear. 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