You think you are a consumer but maybe you have been consumed

[Jan Klimkowski]

What you don't see is the tragedy of Hunt's life - his eldest son Hassie. He had originally followed his father into the oil business, but had then become violent and paranoid. Hunt had tried his own treatment - bringing in lots of women for Hassie to have sex with. But what had worked for the father didn't do much for the son. Doctors tried ECT - but that didn't work. In the end Hunt was persuaded to let them give Hassie a prefrontal lobotomy and his son spent the rest of his life wandering the Hunt estate like a strange ghost.

HL Hunt lobotomises his own son.

That's definitely a parable.

Indeed, it's a parable worthy of the Old Testament. Written by the prophets Cameron and Gottlieb

The article itself is a typically intriguing piece by Adam Curtis, himself an avant garde filmmaker, who has made some of the most powerful and nuanced documentaries shown on British television in the last three decades.

Curtis' chronicling of HL Hunt's "Facts Forum" as an early form of right-wing mass media propaganda, and a precursor of Fox News is absolutely correct.

His observations about the filmic form of Rush to Judgement are also very insightful.