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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

"The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom. It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy."

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Mannheim
Posted 4 days ago
George Orwell, Michel Foucault and Stanley Kubrick: they have tried to tell this things in a more creatively way than a documentary. Nevertheless it's interesting.
Sugar
Posted 96 days ago
No matter how great, noble or altruistic its intent, the GOVERNMENT CAN NEVER EXECUTE ANYTHING WELL
Because they are bureaucracies without incentive to do well
In fact, if you as an individual try to do well in a government environment you will make everyone angry at you for a host of reasons
Simon
Posted 106 days ago
This strikes me as right wing garbage. Government is best when government is making life better for it's people e.g. health, education, welfare, justice, safety in products we consume, air we breath etc. Who would argue with any of that? And that was the purpose of government until Reagan and Thatcher decided that greed alone was the only virtue. It wasn't chaos in the 60s when people were demonstrating and even rioting for civil and human rights and against war and corporate greed - that was true freedom. Reagan and Thatcher ended all of that. The best people and probably the majority of people really are altruistic and would rather work for the common good. Instead we have put the greedy psycho and sociopaths in charge, how are we enjoying that so far? This is propaganda.
Ah - I see by the end of part one that this series is going to agree with me, ok, on to part 2!
Mrudy
Posted 180 days ago
Good movie dude