"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."
Here we are in a day and age where information is readily available and we are still arguing over whether there is a government conspiracy to control the general population. Are we so blind that we are willing to cover our eyes to corruption and the money driven efforts of some of those who serve in public office? When the narrator states that there are those who favor poplulation control for their own advantafe...why do we choose to argue that this is not true. The less people there are the more resources are left to those who control the resources. This is simple math. Those that are poor are trying to get rich and those who are rich are trying to get richer. If their premise is too get richer getting rid of the poor would be an advantage. People have been trained to fear the unknown and those who are different then us. We are double tought to think that on one end we should help the poor and help those who can not help themselves yet we all realize that we are in a "dog-eat-dog" society which cares about noone except those who further one's self preservation. WAKE UP this is not a TEST......erradication of those who get in the way of the elite's presevation (in the elite's eye) need to be eliminated and in this equation there are multiple ways to skin a human......i mean cat.
Ironic that is was two so called center left "for the people" governments - British Labour and US Democrats that turned over all power to the corporations and all we have to look forward to now is even more of the same "let the psychopaths (free market) rule" by the so called right wing or "for the corporation" conservatives. Boy are we screwed. And right at the end of the oil age and the beginning of massive climate and ecological disasters. Strong moderate governments truly working for the benefit of their people could have saved us if we had had them over the last 20 years, or maybe it was always too late anyway. I'm just glad I have no children and will not be alive 20 years from now. For the rest of you - I'm sorry, I wish I had done something rather than just sit by and watch it all unfold. Good luck, you are going to need it. What I see over the next 100 years is the human population dropping back to a few million from it's current 7 billion. Maybe our species will still be around to try again a few thousand years from now when the climate has settled down again. And hopefully our nature will have changed.
As one of those people at the bottom of society, I have watched all that I have experienced and believed to be true about the United States to be only true for the wealthy. None of the promises of hard work pay off for the underclasses in the USA because the oppportunities are not available. The most mean spirited people achieve positions of power, not by their intelligence or wisdom, but by being "yes" people--go along to get along or lose your job or your home or whatever. The states and their polictics have become simply feudalistic in their relationships with their "constituents." For example: all the old methods of promotion and objective hiring have been thrown out with the concept of "right to work;" instead what you have is "right to fire" based on whether or not a persons agree with the few elite--who are self-motivated and paid handsomely for controlling the will of the people. The decline of the American Republic is well into the process. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." OLD CRAP too arrogant to bother with a disguise.
Its a fact that power needs a filosophy, here's one..
This documentary is completely biased and misleading. Adam Curtis is trying to jeopardize the idea of freedom stating that there are some hidden interests in the government. They would try to control us by breeding our fear against one each others. Then if we are paranoiac they got a better grip on us. But it is not even worst to tell people that they have to sacrifice for ideals, other people, government...? Thats collectivism, something that has been proven to be more damaging for society (see what Hitler did on behalf of Germans, or Stalin). This documentary represents a twisted view of individualism and has been convey by people morally tilted to Christianity, collectivism, anti-individualism and so on. OLD CRAP disguised as a new view point.
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