The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom?

great watch, so much of what is really happening and we can all see that in our lives and throughout the world;

I love how he actually got Nash to undermine his own theory, brilliant Adam Curtis you are a freedom warrior keep fighting!!!!!!!

it does seem that the crazy sci-fi movies about computers taking over the world weren’t so far off.

we are now being machined to fit them.

the first thing they had to do was knock of the rough-edges of humane concern for the larger community, a bit of pride in one’s self and others, a pause for consideration of the other fellow, all that sort of sanctimonious, phony nonsense.

robots don’t have those sorts of feelings – its inconvenient, reeks of bourgeoise sensibilities, it’s
old-fashioned, and most of all, renders the calculations too complex.

also, thinking, integrated individuals, institutions & communities are much harder to control. sticky units don’t stack well.

there are deep insights herein. he connects the dots a bit too conveniently at times, but it’s hard to argue with the fundamental forces of what passes for modernity in the first world, at least in the u.s. and u.k.

interestingly, the writer doesn’t belabor the right’s obvious use of these ‘innovations’, but rather the left’s adoption of them, the only possible restraining force.

which takes it beyond polemics to an important philosophical, ethical, socio-historical analysis.

Where is the movie!