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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
We Will Force You to Be Free
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E3
  • We Will Force You to Be Free
Isaiah Berlin made distinctions between a 'positive' and revolutionary idea of freedom, which he believed was dangerous and violent, and the 'negative' freedom that allows people to live their lives without hindrance. From here, Adam Curtis takes us through the 20th Century, right up to the Iraq War. He shows that sometimes the revolutionary positive freedom is more desirable, by providing individuals with meaning in life, while the pursuit of democratic and capitalist negative freedom can be just as brutal.
7.9 /10
The Lonely Robot
Sat, Mar 17, 2007
  • S1.E2
  • The Lonely Robot
"Only two groups in society actually behave in a rational self-interested way in all experimental situations: one is economist themselves, the other is psychopaths."
7.9 /10
F***K You, Buddy
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E1
  • F***K You, Buddy
The ultimate political goal at the heart of our age is the idea of individual freedom. In the first episode of the trap miniseries, an answer to the question of what personal freedom means and how its meaning changed after world war 2 and during the cold war is investigated.
7.8 /10
F***K You, Buddy

S1.E1 ∙ F***K You, Buddy

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The ultimate political goal at the heart of our age is the idea of individual freedom. In the first episode of the trap miniseries, an answer to the question of what personal freedom means and how its meaning changed after world war 2 and during the cold war is investigated.
7.8 /10
The Lonely Robot

S1.E2 ∙ The Lonely Robot

Sat, Mar 17, 2007
"Only two groups in society actually behave in a rational self-interested way in all experimental situations: one is economist themselves, the other is psychopaths."
7.9 /10
We Will Force You to Be Free

S1.E3 ∙ We Will Force You to Be Free

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Isaiah Berlin made distinctions between a 'positive' and revolutionary idea of freedom, which he believed was dangerous and violent, and the 'negative' freedom that allows people to live their lives without hindrance. From here, Adam Curtis takes us through the 20th Century, right up to the Iraq War. He shows that sometimes the revolutionary positive freedom is more desirable, by providing individuals with meaning in life, while the pursuit of democratic and capitalist negative freedom can be just as brutal.
7.9 /10
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