THE TRAIN OF TERROR

I love the presenter's eulogy before the train departs. So over the top.

Top Gear 1950's style!

Not as brilliant a line as "future events such as these will affect you in the future", but still pretty funny. I lol'd.

I typed out "Hope you do a little film for Charlie Brooker's Newswipe again, Adam." but then I did a search for "Newswipe" to make sure that's really what it's called and saw this, so yay... https://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a194382/charlie-brooker-confirms-newswipe-return.html

Thngs like this can really cheer me up.

A bit anticlimactic, but fascinating considering this was over 50 years ago!

Hmm, I imagine the most the audiences memories of WWII were a bit more 'terrifying' than this programme. But I'm sure, back in those days, people would hide behind the sofa literally vomiting in fear etc. etc.

i'm writing my Master thesis on how strategies for sustainable behavioural change can deal with bounded rationality and irrationality aspects of human actions and values.

I find your work so inspiring, helpful and just very clever. Thank you so much for showing us how a man's work can still mean something....It is so rare and precious nowadays....to find meanings.



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EPIC FAIL.



I enjoyed that. You see a lot of homages/send-ups of 50's TV in a lot of comedy shows. This is almost like one of those exaggerated sketches.



"You've never seen anything like this before!!!"



then



"Well you've got take your hat off to her".



Is this a deeper analogy of the fallability of the military? An example of the dumbing down of popular culture? A glimpse of the kind of vicarious thrill that people get from seeing disaster on TV? Morever, the duality of creation and destruction that is evident in man's attempts to achieve greatness?



Dunno, but pretty funny regardless.

omg i didn't know adam curtis has a blog. i'm a big fan of 'nightmares', 'self', and 'trap'. i hope your next one is a doozy. when 'nightmares' aired, i was living in san diego, and got a copy of it and showed it to the activist community there. The info about the neocons was so comprehensive it blew their minds, esp. in fall of 2004.

The movies did it better:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8379500.stm

5. At 11:09pm on 24 Jan 2010, davesocrates wrote:

Hmm, I imagine the most the audiences memories of WWII were a bit more 'terrifying' than this programme. But I'm sure, back in those days, people would hide behind the sofa literally vomiting in fear etc. etc.

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Sorry Dave, but er . . . no. I remember seeing this glued to the telly as a wide-eyed 12-year-old. And was a disappointed then by the anti-climax of the event as much as I am now. Basically we sat there and laughed.

I've written extensively about railway sabotage operations during the campaign to liberate France in 1944, and this is spot-on.



Off this topic: Adam, if you read this, would you e-mail me at [email protected] regarding material to be found in your posting from 25 September last (Kabul City Number One (Continued))?



Many thanks.

The following sources document some of the times where the U.S. government was found secretly exposing it's citizens to harmful bacterial agents to study their effects. One of them describes how in 1966, a bacterial agent was released into the New York City Subway system by dropping light bulbs filled with bacillus subtilis (variant Niger) onto the railway tracks in order to study the mode of spread.



https://www.securitychallenges.org.au/ArticlePDFs/vol4no3Curson.pdf



https://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/published_volumes/chembio/ch19.pdf



https://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146%2Fannurev.mi.21.100167.003231

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What a let down, I was expecting Hollywood style pyrotechnics!