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Americans have actually fallen in real terms since the 1970s, while the incomes of the middle class have increased slightly, and those of the highest one percent of earners (the upper class) have quadrupled. Similarly, babies in the poorest areas in the UK are twice as likely to die in their first year as children from prosperous areas.
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out goods which the tribesmen fought over; in this case the goods were highly prized and useful machetes. Chagnon, however, insists that his presence had had no influence whatsoever on the situation, citing the fact that similar fights happened when he wasn't present, which he also documented through informants. Curtis asked, "You don't think a film crew in the middle of a fight in a village has an effect?" Chagnon replied, "No, I don't," and immediately stopped the interview.
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ideas of programmed behaviour have slowly been absorbed by mainstream culture. (Later, however, the documentary gives evidence that cells are able to selectively replicate parts of DNA dependent on current needs. According to Curtis, such evidence detracts from the simplified economic models of human
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and its role in achieving its vision of a stable society. In fact, argues Curtis, the Blair government had created the opposite of freedom, in that the type of liberty it had engendered wholly lacked any kind of meaning. Its military intervention in Iraq had provoked terrorist actions in the UK and
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was applied to education. In the UK, the introduction of school performance league tables was intended to give individual schools more power and autonomy, to enable them to compete for pupils, the theory being that it would motivate the worst-performing schools to improve; it was an attempt to move
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At the start of the 1970s, the theories of Laing and the models of Nash began to converge, leading to a popular belief that the state (a surrogate family) was purely and simply a mechanism of social control which calculatedly kept power out of the hands of the public. Curtis shows that it was this
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employees and the introduction of economic models following the simplified economic model of human beings outlined in the first two parts—this resulted in the immediate disintegration of Iraqi society and the rise of two strongly autocratic insurgencies: one based on Sunni-Ba'athist ideals and
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with the inspiration to create a computer model of mental health. Input to the program consisted of answers to a questionnaire. Curtis describes a plan of the psychiatrists to test the computer model by issuing questionnaires to "hundreds of thousands" of randomly selected
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to hold democratic elections, these transformations to democracy essentially replaced one elite with another, and the gap between those who have power and wealth, and those who have neither, remained; the freedom the change provided was therefore relatively narrow in concept.
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in March 2007. The series consists of three 60-minute programmes which explore the modern concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom."
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the trap that Berlin had predicted: although they wanted to spread negative freedom, because they saw their ideology as an absolute truth they were able to justify using coercion and lies and also to support violence in order to perpetuate it.
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created the unofficial post of "The Hello Nurse," whose sole task it was to greet new arrivals in order to claim for statistical purposes that the patient had been "seen", even though no treatment or examination took place during the
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had read Berlin's essays on the topic and wrote to him in the late 1990s, arguing that positive and negative liberty could be mutually compatible. As Berlin was on his deathbed at the time, Blair never got a reply.
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and was scheduled for broadcast in 2006. Although it is not known what caused the delay in transmission, nor the change in title, it is known that a DVD release of Curtis's previous series
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argued that the series doesn't make a coherent argument. She said that while she was glad Adam Curtis made provocative documentaries, he was as much of a propagandist as those he opposes.
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These games were internally coherent and worked correctly as long as the players obeyed the ground rules that they should behave selfishly and try to outwit their opponents, but when
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had not attacked
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religious philosophy led to the revolution which overthrew it. Having previously been a meek philosophy of acceptance of the social order, in the minds of revolutionaries such as
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criticised the documentary for "romanticis the past while misrepresenting the ideas it purports to explain"; for example, Curtis suggests that the work of Buchanan and others on
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The neoconservatives wanted to change or overthrow the
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1342:"On Some Faraway Beach", from the album
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1730:"BBC – Press Office – Adam Curtis"
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1330:"Nowhere Near" from the album
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806:Jerome Wakefield, psychiatrist
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2164:Can't Get You Out of My Head
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1563:"Allegro molto vivace" from
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1361:Power, Corruption & Lies
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1852:"Adam Curtis's Paranoia"
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369:To the Brink of Eternity
305:Part 1. "F**k You Buddy"
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2132:The Century of the Self
1535:Le carnaval des animaux
1345:Here Come the Warm Jets
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281:The Power of Nightmares
256:The Power of Nightmares
250:The Century of the Self
210:The Power of Nightmares
1876:They're out to get you
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1310:The Marseille Contract
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2057:It Felt Like a Kiss
1854:. Prospect Magazine
1555:Bernardo Bertolucci
1540:Camille Saint-Saëns
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1425:Another Green World
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1250:Jane Austen
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1018:Sandinistas
1010:Philippines
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725:psychopaths
716:free market
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439:beliefs of
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394:R. D. Laing
386:R. D. Laing
361:nuclear war
313:during the
311:game theory
288:technique.
245:Adam Curtis
241:documentary
239:television
132:Adam Curtis
106:of episodes
70:Adam Curtis
66:Directed by
61:Adam Curtis
2189:Categories
1942:BBC Online
1918:BBC Genome
1898:BBC Genome
1638:BBC Genome
1590:References
1504:The Gadfly
1394:scores by
1189:Max Steuer
1187:Economist
1062:Tony Blair
1055:Shia Islam
1000:regime in
868:Tony Blair
803:task force
703:encounter;
660:New Labour
590:depression
565:task force
268:Production
192:2007-03-25
182:2007-03-11
114:Production
58:Written by
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1987:The Times
1976:. London.
1812:7 January
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1442:Brian Eno
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1366:New Order
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990:democracy
963:Oligarchs
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502:, 1956–60
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322:John Nash
142:180 mins
129:Producers
95:of series
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1958:The Trap
1937:The Trap
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165:Network
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