Meanwhile, genuine power to change lives becomes more opaque and distant, leaving large parts of the world helpless and desperate. Along the way, this being Curtis, his film offers tragicomic asides on Patti Smith and Occupy, BlackRock investments and The X-Files. “My take on Trump is that he is an inevitable creation of this unreal normal world,” Curtis says. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump in footage from HyperNormalisation: fuelling anger in the echo chamber of the internet. The things they don’t see.”To this end Curtis has become a kind of heroic one-man depository of BBC memory.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 07:00 UTC