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We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is...
Genres:DocumentaryWar & Politics
Network:BBC Two
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  • Love and Power
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    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

  • The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
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    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

  • The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
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    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