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#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
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#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
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#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
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Genres:DocumentaryWar & Politics
Network:BBC Two
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts" is the worst rated episode of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". It scored 8/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Adam Curtis and written by Adam Curtis, it aired on 5/30/2011. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey".