What I’m talking about is three things: finance, computers and management theory. They shape people’s lives these days, yet they are absolutely unstoryfiable – you cannot turn them into a story. No one’s really found a way to describe this odd world we live in. I mean, I live in Holborn and every day I go to the BBC I see these waves of people going into offices and I know they’re going to spend their time in front of their computers being told, ‘If you like this then you’ll like that,’ and being managed by all these systems. No one’s really found a way of describing that world to those people. And that’s what journalism should be doing. It really should.

Adam Curtis talks to Vice, Looking Beneath the Waves

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