Adam Curtis (2009). 'Oh Dearism'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8moePxHpvok
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8moePxHpvok?start=260 Transcript: "then in 1989 the West won the Cold War the old political story of left versus right was finished but reporters still needed a grand simple story about the world into which all the chaotic events and fragments of stuff that happen every day could be fitted and waiting in the wings was the hippie counterculture view of the world, a view which saw everything as a struggle between innocent individuals and corrupt political systems and TV news embraced it eagerly and it worked from the glorious revolutions in Eastern Europe to the brave students in Tiananmen Square through to the plucky Bosnians in the horror of Sarajevo, television news told a story of noble individuals bravely standing up against bad political systems but this simple battle between good and evil couldn't last and it finally cracked back where it first began in Africa in 1994 the Hutu massacred millions of Tutsi in Rwanda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide In the wake of the massacres millions of refugees flooded into the Congo. Western aid workers and television crews also flooded in to help the innocent victims but they soon discovered that many of them weren't innocent at all they were the evil Hutus who had killed millions of the Tutsis when people across the border we all knew very well that among them there were murderers there were people the people that were helping every time we give out food every time we we give health health services uh we know that among the people that were helping there are murderers. Then the tootsies invaded the camps to get their revenge but instead of behaving like good victims they too carried out terrible massacres and a horrific war began in which 4 and a half million people died and everyone was evil even the children. And that had a terrible effect on television news because when there weren't any good or innocent people to support any longer the kind of news reporting invented in the '90s made no sense because the news had given up reporting them as political struggles it meant there was now no way to understand why these terrible events were happening and instead political conflicts around the world from Darfur to Gaza are now portrayed to us as simple illustrations of the mindless cruelty of the human race about which nothing can be done and to which the only response is oh dear it's like living in the mind of a depressed hippie." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok&t=260s Further: "What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. This is not to say that there will no longer be events to fill the pages of Foreign Affairs's yearly summaries of international relations, for the victory of liberalism has occurred primarily in the realm of ideas or consciousness and is as yet incomplete in the real or material world. But there are powerful reasons for believing that it is the ideal that will govern the material world in the long run" Fukuyama, F. (1989). Bibliography: Bibliography: Curtis, A. (2009). 'Oh Dearism'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1955162/ Fukuyama, F. (1989). 'The End of History?' The National Interest(16), 3-18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184
