The Trap
Posted by MiguelMonday, April 16th, 2007, 1:08 pm
I was a very big fan of The Power Of Nightmares (available at the Internet Archive, also serialized by Wholphin) by documentarian Adam Curtis.
A new series of his was broadcast last month in England, called The Trap. I watched it following links from Disseminate, and I’d recommend that anyone do the same. The Trap is an idea-driven piece that discusses the how over recent decades ideas from Game Theory, political philosophy, economics, and psychology have subverted a meaningful definition of freedom even as the USA and Britain claim Freedom as the central principle of government. Curtis uses really fun film clips and a great soundtrack (Brian Eno, Yo La Tengo) to make an abstract and depressing (but important!) story highly engaging. Definitely check it out.