Adam Curtis – The Trap | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (1) F*** You, Buddy! + (2) The Lonely Robot + (3) We Will Force You to Be Free (2007)

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The Trap | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom

The Trap | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (1) F*** You, Buddy!

Gepubliceerd op 31 mrt. 2020

‘Fuck You, Buddy!‘ is the first part in a series (The Trap – What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom, Sunday, BBC2) about civil liberties. The ‘inflammatory‘ name refers to A game invented by the mathematician John Forbes Nash, whom they actually draft in here, which at first I thought lent it authority, and later on I decided was just because, well, he S mad, innee?
“Frankly, as interesting as game theory is, and it is interesting, I couldn T help thinking, ‘Hold the front page!‘ Paranoid schizophrenic thinks rest of World is out to get each other!’ A number of other game theorists were wheeled out. They re all pretty old now, and they pause for so long you think the telly S on pause. I kept thinking the dog was sitting on the remote. ‘That dog is probably out to screw me,‘ I thought. ‘It will serve him better, in the long run, than cooperating with me.’”

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The Trap | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (2) The Lonely Robot

Published on 31 mrt. 2020

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is A BBC television documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It originally aired in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in March 2007. The series consists of three 60 minute programs which explore the modern concept and definition of freedom, specifically, how A simplistic model of human beings as self seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today S idea of freedom!

Episode (2) – The Lonely Robot (2007) reiterated many of the ideas of the first part, but developed the theme that drugs such as Prozac and lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or depression were being used to normalize behavior and make humans behave more predictably, like machines.

This was not presented as A conspiracy theory, but as A logical (although unpredicted) outcome of market driven self diagnosis by check list based on symptoms, but not actual causes, discussed in part one.

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The Trap | What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (3) We Will Force You to Be Free

Published on 31 mrt. 2020

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC television documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It originally aired in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in March 2007. The series consists of three 60 minute programs which explore the modern concept and definition of freedom, specifically, how A simplistic model of human beings as self seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today S idea of freedom.

The final part focusses on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. Curtis briefly explains how negative liberty could be defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity to strive to fulfill one S potential. Tony Blair had read Berlin S essays on the topic and wrote to him in the late 1990s, arguing that positive and negative liberty could be mutually compatible. As Berlin was on his deathbed at the time, Blair never got A reply.