Thursday 28 October 2010, 19:13  Adam Curtis Adam Curtis  Tagged
with:  We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or
the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no
alternative to the present political and economic system.  The
latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you
will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective
ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group
- otherwise you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.
And you cannot have the old welfare state because it doesn't
follow the rules of the market - and thus leads to economic
crisis.  But not so long ago the world was defined and divided
by equally rigid rules. And no-one thought that could ever
change.  I have discovered a lovely film from that time. Or, to
be precise, from the moment when that rigid world was beginning
to crumble, but no-one knew.  It is a documentary made in 1977
that follows two men from British Leyland on a visit to the
Togliatti car plant in the So