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Do you know what I hate about most documentaries?
They always have the same formula, they always are 3 hours long but they only have 20 minutes of content.
The first 45 minutes agitates the problem, and "socializes" and lionizes the people in the documentary to establish a communal connection with the audience.
The next 2 hours engrains whatever bullshit evidence they have in favor of their viewpoint into the audience by saying the same thing at least 25 different ways, through "experts", eyewitness and anecdotes, with these same 10 individuals pulp-rotating footage of their autobiographical story.
Then the last 15 minutes speaks to you as a convert concludes there is no other valid interpretation of the evidence and how any contradictory evidence or interpretation is mere conspiratorial disinformation by "big business" or some other grand institutional cartel "keeping the truth hidden".
The problem with documentaries isn't that they are wrong, some may be true. The problem is they give you certainty there is only one way to see the problem. This is called manufactured certainty.
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