The Trap - "We Will Force You To Be Free" - 1/6 - 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

[ollersutube]

Brian Eno...think it's becalmed.

[tradesurp]

Hello, Does anybody know the name of the piece of music that kicks in at 1:07 minuets please?

It's been driving me crazy for a while now, and it doesn't appear to be one of the pieces listed on the Wikipedia page for The Trap.

Cheers

[niriop]

@chucklesjgao Yes, that is a bad mistake on Curtis' part, but he did spend his later childhood there

[chucklesjgao]

I thought Isaiah was born in Riga, Latvia?