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The BBC documentary “Century of The Self” available on YouTube also highlights the ways in which everything happening at Esalen were leveraged to manufacture more consumerism. Great watch.


Curtis's docos (and some parodies of them) are excellent at many levels.


Which parodies?


"This is a short story about the rise of the Collageumentary, And how the medium swamped the message"

The Loving Trap https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg


That's the one I had in mind (it's brilliant), though it's become a bit of a genre itself:

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=adam+curtis+parody

Corbett Report offers a good, longish (45m) take, non-parody:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=njJz6zrmy_s




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