“This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy."
（這部影集是關於那些擁有權力的人們，如何運用佛洛依德的理論試圖在大眾民主的時代，控制危險的群眾的故事。） – Adam Curtis
底下是第一部：快樂機器（Happiness Machine）。
在佛洛依德的侄子 Edward Bernays 的成功努力下，女性抽煙，竟然被連結到自由女神握住火炬，爭取自由！這真是太讚了…
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
（「共識的操控，就是民主過程、說服與暗示的自由之最主要核心精髓。」）
– (Edward L. Bernays, “The Engineering of Consent", 1947)
A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore
If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where’s my wife and family
What if I die here
Who’ll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations
If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al
A man walks down the street
It’s a street in a strange world
Maybe it’s the Third World
Maybe it’s his first time around
He doesn’t speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!
If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al
這種化認同於無形的感覺真的超好。對了，這整張專輯都是非洲化的 Paul Simon。鼓聲超正點的 🙂
Involve Inc. 所共同設計的 US Holocaust Memorial Museum 裡的 Kristallnacht 特展（「破碎窗戶之夜」），是一個跟年輕朋友一起共同創作的猶太大屠殺的故事。作者這樣說了一句超重要的話：
“The thing for us is to how to do this without trivializing it or making it feel gamelike. You don’t want them to feel like they were there, because they weren’t, but that they’ll know something more."
「對我們來說，這個計畫的挑戰是要如何不讓這些內容、故事與片段變得瑣碎；或者不讓它變成一種遊戲（gamelike）。你不想讓這些觀眾覺得他們就在那裡，因為他們本來就不在現場，可是他們將會知道一些更多的什麼。」
