The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
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.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Fuck You, Buddy
11-03-200760mIn 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 par...
- Ep 2
2.The Lonely Robot
18-03-200760mThe 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...
- Ep 3
3.We Will Force You To Be Free
25-03-200760mThe 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...
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