"One of the great unanswered questions of my time is why the optimism and idealism of liberals, who used the power of state to change the world for the better, collapsed so quickly and turned to pessimism. If you talk to groups of liberals now, it’s like talking to people who think the plane’s going to crash all the time. They dream of apocalypse and read books by Cormac McCarthy and say that sugar’s going to kill them. Which it may well do, but it’s not the biggest thing to worry about."

Fucking love Adam Curtis! Always hitting the nail on the head. My experience with Liberals is that they tend to be vain and nihilistic, I suppose that's what happens when you're an idealist with no real ideas other than vague bullshit like "compromise" and "process".

Neat Adam Curtis Interview