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    • The Trap

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      “The Trap” is a three-part documentary series made by Adam Curtis that dis into the real concept of freedom and how we have arrived at our ideals about it today.

      The first part of the series discusses the strategy of the Cold War. Adam Curtis references the “game theory” by John Nash which assumes that all human beings are suspicious and selfish by nature and that often, strategizes a lot. Curtis says this very ideals was what fueled the Cold War between the Soviets and the Americans and explains it using models of human behavior.

      The second part delves on psychological symptoms leading to anxiety and how the use of medicines such as Prozac helps calm the individual to the point of behaving more predictably, much like a robot. Curtis touches on irrational behavior, mood fluctuations and abnormality, in relation to the game theory.

      The last part talks about the advantages and disadvantages of liberty using theories by Isaiah Berlin and how these two concepts are compatible.

      The documentary suggests that all these are traps to our quest for the ultimate freedom.

      Part 1 – F*ck You Buddy

      Part 2 – The Lonely Robot

      Part 3 – We Will Force You To Be Free

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      Published on December 24, 2008 · Filed under: Politics

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    • Zé

      I can only say that this is possibly the best documentary which explains what's the origin of what's happening in our world. I consider myself a person of knowledge about what's going on but I didn't know a lot of what's said here.
      Also, the style in which is presented it's very good, in a way because it bring a bit of humor to a documentary that top me is very depressing because it's very true.
      Check out all the other Adam Curtis docs.

    • Tyler

      Wow. I've lost almost all hope for mankind.

      I wish people would just wake up and say, "hey, why don't we stop killing each other and stealing from each other and just sort of, you know, tolerate each other?"

    • http://www.tedseay.com TedK

      Tyler, I'm with you. This has been an extremely enlightening documentary for me. It really did change my true understanding of the state olf our union.

    • Tyler

      If this enlightened you, I'd strongly recommend the other Adam Curtis films, as Ze mentioned. I think you would also like "Orwell Rolls in his Grave."

      This site is fantastic. I think I've learned more in the past few weeks than I did in my entire junior high career.

    • James Sutherland

      Great credit to the guy who put up these documentaries.The Trap is a remarkable documentary that provokes thought at a different level.

    • Christopher

      What has not been told here is that behind America's fight for freedom are the greedy capitalists who wants to take an immediate advantage of Iraq and Russia before even building them up. All they saw was to seize the profit immediately.

      Naturally, if you take all the regulations that has been running a country for so long, it is obvious that chaos will follow. It is a pity that from a great jubilation from tiranny came the disappointment that Americans were there to abuse and to take advantage of them.

      You can see the frustration of the people in both Russia and Iraq. And in Iraq the American soldiers were dying while thinking what the heck is happening. Why can't people want democracy.

      I believe that there are still good people with good intentions but the world is run in majority by the greedy, the rich, who wouldn't care if chaos will happen as long as they get what they want.

      If you will watch a documentary of how the Federal Reserve took over America you will see that greed is winning in the free society which was created for the good of everybody.

      I never found Sartre to be intellectual by the fact that he bragged that there is no God. This documentary has elightened me that he is indeed of the devil. I didn't know how great his influence was behind the great massacres in Cambodia, tyranny in Iran, and all other sorts of modern terrorisms. Sartre is the father or modern terrorism. He is not a philosopher.

    • hghghghg

      "An economy is greater than a democracy- because people are directly represented than if its threw representatives."
      Democracy is more like economy then, having your opinion voiced for you by a representative is a republic.
      Myself I believe markets don't care for people directly, and democracy in its pure form is anarchy.

    • garbonzo

      Is there any more to part 2? It cuts off at around 30 mins. Otherwise I watched all of these and loved them. Thanks for uploading.

    • Old Git Tom

      This is the sort of quality disinformation the conservative BBC has been peddling for years.

      It presented Isaiah Berlin as some sort of philosopher-saint, ignoring his enthusiastic Zionism, & that his son became head banana of Mossad.

      It also ignores the role of the masses in politics, as if issues boil down to what leading intellectuals & pols think. Ordinary people fought & died in
      the Hungarian revolt, not top people.

      It also coyly avoided the key question “cui bono”, who benefitted. The thread running thru all the events supposedly about ‘freedom’ was the role & interests of the City of London & Wall Street banks. They crushed freedom movements that threatened their profits. They always picked up a bonus when wars broke out.

      The smashing of democracy in Chile was to the direct benefit of the copper industries of Anaconda & Kennecott. Iraq was invaded to steal its high-quality oil.

      Don’t be confused. The fight for freedom is between what the mass of ordinary people want, & what is most profitable for a capitalist-banking minority. OGT

    • dave

      Interesting comments but it doesnt appear that anyone noticed the rather large holes in the narrators opinion caused by a selective and overly brief review of some of the theories especially those economic theories from the Chicago School. He didnt do Hayekk justice and is tantamount to outright misrepresentation of the facts
      and didnt he even mention the the gurue himself Milton Freedman, all in all this thing was lame, short on specifics, and long on opinion not rooted in truth, ie selective in order to make a more interesting documentary. But hey as long as the communist Christopher liked it.

    • terry beaton

      I think this idea of “negative freedom” is unquestionably flawed when it is applied to societies that are starting from a state of brokenness. What the purveyors of political theories always fail to take into account is that many Countries have fundamental differences from the West that go beyond politics. Too many people, “negative and positive” are driven by Ideologies that sound good in practice but fail in someone elses reality. “If this works for us, then it should work for you “! What we really are seeing is the tyranny of the developed nations “Idolatry of Ideology”.

     
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