The Trap - EP2: (3 of 6) The Lonely Robot - Adam Curtis BBC

[plebshadowofra]

observation: close family members generally tend to fight on the same side

conclusion: we are all meat puppets controlled by mysterious gene codes looking to self propagate I think the average streetfighter, gang member or football/baseball player could provide more wisdom on this dynamic. Another prime example of "clever" scientists dissecting leaves whilst oblivious to the surrounding forest.

[cardigan3000]

Can you give a source for where dawkins says there is a gene for alcoholism.

[theheathyfella]

Dawkins is highlighted here because he is the king of flawed logic from there is a gene for alcoholism to radical atheism.

Celebrity intellectual who sells books to the middle classes to make them look intelligent.

[sahibzada77]

I don't know much about Dawkins, but i liked the term 'Celebrity Intellectual'.

[josephdrew87]

Richard Dawkins is a (clever) biologist and scientist. Adam Curtis is a (clever) documentary maker and political scientist. When it comes to biological genetics I suggest you and mr. Curtis agree with Richard Dawkins. Curtis completely misrepresents Dawkins here, who on many occassion has gone out of his way to say that genes are selfish, but that this can make people naturally altruistic. As well as the fact that our brains have given us the ability to overcome the will of our selfish genes.

[theheathyfella]

The point I'm making is that dawkins is a bandwagon jumper.

Scientists like to make headlines!

The precurement of logic to explain everything when deviation is everything.

As Darwin said all we can expect is change.

Ie-we can't pigeonhole everything,which Dawkins theories state probability as fact.

It's a roll of a dice.

[theheathyfella]

So according to Dawkins Behaviorism no longer exists.

Oh come on!

Upbringing and situation has nothing to do with behaviour.

Where getting into the world of scientology and Thetans

[calixtesaint]

Just keeps getting better!

[ilikeclubsoda]

Youtube has taken down the majority of THE TRAP that had taken so much time to put up. The best thing to do is to watch it on google video, search term 'sitruc'

[Konform2zoidberg]

I didn't get the point of Richard Dawkins in there.

[pekoe67]

The Yanomamo would know their heredity to the nth degree. It was their awareness of this that caused them to chose sides in a conflict: out of family alleigance. Europeans had long lost this connectedness.(IMO)

Love this film!