Can't Get You Out of My Head But What if the People are Stupid (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 73 min | Documentary, History

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Can't Get You Out of My Head

But What if the People are Stupid (Season 1, Episode 4)

TV Episode | 73 min | Documentary, History

No one trusted politics or politicians any longer. Instead we were all one world of free individuals. And we could intervene to save other individuals around the world without bothering with old politics and power. And people became what ...See moreNo one trusted politics or politicians any longer. Instead we were all one world of free individuals. And we could intervene to save other individuals around the world without bothering with old politics and power. And people became what they as individuals truly were - emotionally and sexually. But power was mutating and finding ways to work its way back into our heads. The politicians realised that they no longer had the support or the trust of the people. So they switched sides and gave up being our representatives who would challenge the powerful on our behalf. Instead they began to tell us what to do on behalf of the powerful. And they made new alliances - with the psychologists who said that human beings were irrational and needed to be managed. But we didn't notice because we were too busy shopping. See less

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
Joan Baez Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Tony Blair Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Force of Nature (2022)
Ling Chai Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Moving the Mountain (1994)
Bill Clinton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Great Irish Potato Famine
Hillary Clinton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	State of Terror (I)
Adam Curtis Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Power of Nightmares (2004)
Bob Geldof Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Julia Grant Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mrs. U.S. Grant and President McKinley (1899)
Bernard Kouchner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Médecins de nuit (1978)
Haile Mariam Mengistu Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Lan Ping Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Symphony of Lianhua (1937)
Margaret Thatcher Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	SDI Star Wars (1991)
Jingsheng Wei Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Moving the Mountain (1994)
Deng Xiaoping Self (archive footage) (as Xiaoping Deng) Self (archive footage) (as Xiaoping Deng) See fewer	Mr. Deng Goes to Washington (2015)
Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Vremya (1968)