So Very Long Ago

[poliphilo]

I watched Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake- his film about Afghanistan. It was made in 2015- which makes it almost contemporary- but since then we've had Trump, Brexit, Covid- and the themes that obsess us (by "us" I mean our politicians and media) have changed completely- and those six years might just as well be sixty...

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[poliphilo]

There's a scene where the Brits arrive in a village and tell the elders they've come to fight the Taliban on their behalf and the elders say, "We don't care about the Taliban, just get Karzai and his cronies off our backs."