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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

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Overview

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Status: Ended

First Air Date: 2007-03-11

Runtime: 1h 0m

Director: Adam Curtis

Writer: Adam Curtis

Top Cast

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Episodes - Season 1

Fuck You, Buddy

Fuck You, Buddy

In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thought with particular reference to the work of John Nash, who believed that all humans were inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategised constantly.

The Lonely Robot

The Lonely Robot

The second episode reiterated many of the ideas of the first, but developed the theme that the drugs such as Prozac and lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or depression were being used to normalize behavior and make humans behave more predictably, like machines.

We Will Force You To Be Free

We Will Force You To Be Free

The final program focused on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. Curtis briefly explained how negative liberty could be defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity to strive to fulfill one's potential. Tony Blair had read Berlin's essays on the topic and wrote to him in the late 1990s, arguing that positive and negative liberty could be mutually compatible. He never received a reply, as Berlin was on his death bed.

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