The Trap - "We Will Force You To Be Free" - 6/6 - Adam Curtis

From the series: The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The final program focuses on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. Curtis briefly explains how negative liberty could be defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity to strive to fulfill one's potential.

Many thanks to Adam Curtis and his crew at the BBC!

In essence, the program suggests that following the path of negative liberty to its logical conclusions, as governments have done in the West for the past 50 years, resulted in a society without meaning populated only by selfish automatons, and that there was some value in positive liberty in that it allowed people to strive to better themselves.

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• isaih berlin
• satre
• new labour
• blair
• negative liberty
• The trap
• adam curtis
• iraq war
• individualism
• tyranny

[TheForwardGaze]

Anarchism--It's worked every time it's been tried.

[Bunnies4wool]

@MarkProffitt I agree 100%. Goldman Sacks is a criminal organization but it could not perpetrate it's crimes (and Citi Bank, Morgan, etc) without our cowardly "representatives" selling out to them.

[MarkProffitt]

@Bunnies4wool I just checked Gapminder and it shows per person income increasing and poverty decreasing from 31% to 20%since 1998.

Just a small point. The state stole everything from the people. The Russian "businessmen" were just grabbing it as the state was handing it out. That is the same thing happening in the west. Governments with central banks create currency stealing the value from average people. Big Business is not possible without the state first stealing then giving hand outs.

[Bunnies4wool]

@MarkProffitt I am not familiar with the aftermath of Putin's policies to reverse the corruption under the so-called freedom. Do you have any information, links, etc? Did Putin succeed in restoring some order? Are the people better off now, than they were prior to the so called "freedom"? I am aware of vastly rich Russian "businessmen" (who follow the pattern of Western businessment, stealing from the citizens through their corrupt government, either by plan or ignorance). But the average?

[MarkProffitt]

The last portion of this series was a giant Straw Man argument. What was done to Nicaragua, Russia, and Iraq was not allowing them freedom but exactly the opposite. First all of their existing property was destroyed or stolen, then they were told they were free and expected to survive while a military regime was actively preventing them from doing it. A top down planned economy was pushed on the people and they were told a lie that "this is freedom" which could not be further from the truth.

[099749]

@099749

05.59- "when a crime goes unpunished that is a breach of the victims liberity and human rights"

Say the man that promoted a war of agression against Iraq as part of the corporate empire agenda!

I completly agree with Blairs point and hold him as a liar, a hypocrite and a war criminal, who engaged in a war of aggression against a country to promote corporate empire!

[099749]

Thankyou, this is what Iraq was about corporate take over of Iraq!

A war of corporate empire!