Great read. Thanks for sharing. I am not familiar with Adam Curtis' work but will be looking for more!
Others have recommended "the century of self" for example which is great but I highly recommend his earlier stuff like "Pandora's box" and "The Mayfair set"
I think more engineers and technologists who build systems that affects people's lives at a large scale need to watch those.
You're in for a treat, then. He has hours of wonderful documentaries.
It might be true, but it doesn't work because Curtis himself is hypernormalising — he isn't a journalist, he tells stories and emotions rather than a left-brained truth.