10.0/101 votes#1 - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/30/2011
This episode 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.
Director: Adam Curtis
Writer: Adam Curtis
10.0/101 votes#2 - The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/6/2011
This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered the source of ethnic conflict that was created by Belgian colonialism's artificial creation of a racial divide and the ensuing slaughter that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a source of raw material for computers and cell phones.
Director: Adam Curtis
Writer: Adam Curtis
8.5/102 votes#3 - Love and Power
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/23/2011
In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.
Director: Adam Curtis
Writer: Adam Curtis
8.3/103 votes#4 - Happiness Machines
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/2002
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Director: Adam Curtis
Writer: N/A
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"The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts" is the best rated episode directed by Adam Curtis. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Adam Curtis. It aired on 5/30/2011 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey".