The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
8.5
2007
Documentary
Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
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- Cast：
- Adam Curtis , Yevgeny Kiselyov , Ronald Reagan , Tony Blair , Boris Yeltsin , Vladimir Putin , Margaret Thatcher , Bill Clinton
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EP2 - The Lonely Robot
March. 18,2007
The second episode reiterated many of the ideas of the first, but developed the theme that the drugs such as Prozac and lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or depression were being used to normalize behavior and make humans behave more predictably, like machines.
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