He’s Just Had Coffee

I’ve just started watching The Power of Nightmares - The Rise of the Politics of Fear and I must absolutely commend it to people to watch. It’s a video presentation of a theory by Adam Curtis of the BBC that a terror of rising individualism of 1950s America inspired two men, Sayed Qutb and Leo Strauss to create political ideologies in Egypt and the US respectively, which led on the one hand to Islamic Jihad and on the other to PNAC. It’s rich in interviews, as well as checkable doco-facts and it’s getting raves and damnation from predictable quarters though some balance can be found in the usual place.

Download it from archive.org, watch it and make up your own mind.