The Trap

I mentioned that I would be screwed to the sofa to watch The Trap by Adam Curtis on BBC2 last Sunday. I was there and watching – but for this bear of very little brain there was an awful lot to absorb. There’s a problem, I have found, when both the argument and my brain are dense. I’m not really complaining – the current approach in the media to reduce everything to a two-minute soundbite deserves to rot in Hell – but there was a lot to take in. Perhaps the next programmes will give me a chance to tease out the arguments.

 

Still, I did not feel that it was a waste of time – unlike most stuff on the telly these days.

 

Not Saussure comes closest to what I think my reaction would have been had I grokked Curtis’ argument more fully… However, I’ll be there on the sofa for the rest of the series…