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.
This documentary is really interesting, but all of the comments on every video seem to be about the fucking music !
MinotawrTV 3 weeks ago
who knows what the song is at 6:20? thanks
goPistons06 1 year ago