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The Adam Curtis Framework

Associative Montage & Political Synthesis

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Adam Curtis produced work that defined or redefined their medium through sustained attention to craft. Adam Curtis's creative approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The associative montage & political synthesis framework distils Adam Curtis's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Adam Curtis made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Adam Curtis's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Adam Curtis's thinking.

Core Philosophy

All political narratives are emotional constructs designed to manage mass psychology. The most powerful truths emerge not from linear argument but from unexpected connections that bypass rational defenses and hit the viewer's unconscious directly.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

What is this story really trying to make you feel, and why does power need you to feel that way?

4 more questions in Adam Curtis's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Adam Curtis Would NOT Do · sample
Create traditional cause-and-effect documentaries that pretend complexity has simple explanations

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Adam Curtis actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Adam Curtis's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Adam Curtis, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • adam-curtis.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • adam-curtis-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Adam Curtis. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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