I wish I understood your post !
We lied to Burma we lied to the Palestinians, in fact Jews also say they were lied to by the British. We, with others carved up the Middle East.
Us and the US are still trying to dictate who runs countries we don't like.
Your middle paragraph is just weird.
Because you haven't seen the documentaries.
An interesting series but it has six episodes and all between 70-120 mins. Difficult to get the time stamp.
en.wikipedia.org
In Can't Get You Out of My Head, Curtis argues that we need to rediscover our sense of imagination
www.wired.co.uk
The important influence was Cecil Sharp, unfortunately the article doesn't discuss how it was used in the colonies, but here is a flavour of it.
"Take Brexit. Curtis outlines a fascinating history of a man named Cecil Sharp, a key leader in the English folk-song revival back in the early 1900s. Sharp travelled through England learning old rural dances; black and white footage shows Sharp and his companions prancing from leg to leg like fauns, the kind of ye olde English country dancing parodied by Julia Davis in her black comedy
Hunderby.
“Sharp sort of invented the idea of folk music,” says Curtis. “And that’s not to say people didn’t sing songs. But this idea that there was this thing called the music of the folk, he sort of invented that, and he did it with this country dancing, and it’s so recent. And it was really a myth of England.”
Curtis deepens his analysis. Sharp drew on the volk of German nationalism. His aim was more ambitious, and sinister – responding to a fear of industrialised mass society, and the corruption of ascendant financial institutions, he intended to manufacture a new nationalism for the middle classes – a natural order extracted from England’s rolling hills. In other words, the impulse is Brexit: a retreat into a mythical version of the past. At that episode’s conclusion, Nigel Farage emerges from a tundra of blue, Brexit Party glow sticks.
“There’s a melancholy about the loss of the Empire, but really the roots of Brexit are in that sort of mythical, nostalgic idea of England, that was invented in those years, and then comes back up again in the Second World War,” Curtis says. “And it’s still there. You know, lots of my middle class friends have that nostalgia, you can see it.”
