2011
Adam Curtis
A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
Episode 1 Love and Power tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.
Episode 2 The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.
Episode 3 The Monkey In The Machine and the Machine in the Monkey looks into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton.
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Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
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